Jenny Sturgeon & M G Boulter

Jenny Sturgeon Jenny Sturgeon is a Scottish singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and sound artist. As a solo artist, she has released two acclaimed albums. Her music combines field recordings with sonic and lyrical imagery which is bound together by common threads of nature, folklore and the connection people have with the landscape. Jenny's album 'The Living Mountain' was nominated for the 2021 Scottish Album of the Year awards and won Best Acoustic at the 2020 Scottish Alternative Music Awards. Jenny's most recent work paths.made.walking is a series of 33 located sound recordings which chart her journey walking the Scottish National Trail, an 864km trail which starts in Kirk Yetholm and ends at Cape Wrath Lighthouse. Musical collaborations include writing and performing in the critically acclaimed alt-folk band Salt House and in the bird and kitchen-disco inspired band Birdvox, an evolution of migration inspired project Northern Flyway; a Creative Scotland and PRS Foundation funded audio-visual project that Jenny co-wrote with Inge Thomson - described as "like watching a David Attenborough documentary but with awesome music!?. Jenny?s music has been played on BBC Radio 6 Music, Radio 2, BBC Scotland, Radio 3, Radio 4 and Radio Nan Gaidheal - including being featured as artist of the week, live sessions for Travelling Folk and BBC Radio 3 and being on BBC Radio 4 Front Row. Jenny's release 'The Wren and The Salt Air' - a commission for The National Trust of Scotland - featured on national STV news. https://www.jennysturgeonmusic.com/ M G Boulter M G Boulter is a songwriter and musician living on the Thames coast in Essex, UK. Serving his apprenticeship in numerous bands in the hotbed of the Southed-on-Sea pub rock scene (the precursors of which were household names such as Procol Harem, Dr Feelgood and Eddie and the Hotrods), M G came to lead, as singer and guitarist, the popular country rock band The Lucky Strikes, who Q Magazine once likened to ?The Waterboys on trucker pills?. In 2013 M G released his debut record The Water or the Wave which was followed by 2016?s With Wolves the Lamb will Lie which was picked by the Daily Telegraph as one of the best Folk albums of that year. The success of With Wolves led to M G signing with folk and roots label Hudson Records, which led to the collaborative EP Blood Moon, recorded with Birmingham string quartet, The Froe. The EP was recorded in a Methodist fishermen?s chapel in the old seaside town of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex over just four days. The EP was hailed as a chamber folk masterpiece. M G?s songwriting creates vignettes of ordinary life often set in the seaside location of his hometown. This writing form is crystallised in his first album released on Hudson, Clifftown, an album based on a fictional town which closely resembles that of Southend-on-Sea. Working again with producer Andy Bell and a host of friends from bands as diverse as Bellowhead and Spritiualised, M G created an all encompassing personal history of growing up in seaside suburbia which is both affecting and observant. 2024 sees the release of 'Days of Shaking' a continuation of M G?s exploration into the kitchen sink dramas of modern suburbia but behind these songs of frustrated opportunities and the mundane realities of day to day modern living is a world of rumour and mystery, urban myths and the magical thinking we all use to bring shape to our lives, expectations and hopes. https://www.mgboulter.co.uk/