RavePunk Poet Spencer Mason launches their debut album The Fox and The Butterfly, a narrative led sonic onslaught that balances award nominated lyrics with a concoction of furious guitars, dance-floor filling beats, and spectral synthesisers. A storyteller in pen and performance, Mason will be performing the album from top to tail at this special event.
Ria Smart is a poet and singer working intimately with words and performance, promising an eclectic and engaging set that challenges ideas of identity and intimacy.
Steve Grozier is one of Scotland's finest songwriters. His ability to write literary and introspective lyrics and emotive vocals have earned comparisons with Neil Young, Bob Dylan and Townes Van Zadnt. His debut album All That's Been Lost garnered universal praise and worldwide attention. Grozier has performed with some of the biggest names in Americana, folk-rock and alt-country. From alt-country pioneers Blitzen Trapper, Buck Meek (Big Thief) and Joe Pug. A BBC Featured artist at the Edinburgh festival, Americana Music Association Showcase performer and regular at Celtic Connections.
ACE V!S!ON (They/He) is a Scottish-Malawian poet, rapper and musician. Equally as comfortable communicating freestyle/spoken word on open-mic stages as they are lacing eloquent rhyme with experimental rhythms, often inspired by themes of grief, Ioss and the universal human condition