Adam Thomas Adam Thomas is an acoustic solo act from Suffolk who has gained popularity over the last four years with his live show and percussive style of playing. Adam decided in 2018 that he wanted to to pursue his career, go full time and put all of his efforts into becoming a successful musician. In his first year alone he performed at just over 260 gigs in each corner of the UK which helped gain recognition and being booked to perform for big festivals and shows in the UK and Europe. Often compared to Suffolk’s own superstar ‘Ed Sheeran’, Adam invested in his craft by setting up his own studio where he produced, recorded and mastered his debut EP and album ‘Love on earth and spirit’ and ‘Fourteen’ (which you can find on all major streaming platforms) to show to the world and fans his own style of being Adam Thomas.
Belinda Gillett is a popular Indie-Folk singer/songwriter from the flats of Suffolk. Belinda is often compared to Sandy Denny and Joan Baez. She creates atmospheric landscapes with her honest songs of love, nature and life. She has played venues up and down the country and has just released a new album entitled ‘Fight The Good Fight’. Influences include Nick Drake, Radiohead, The Sundays and Frightened Rabbit.
Elly Tree aka Helen Woodbridge is a singer-songwriter based in Ipswich, Suffolk that runs a band - solo, duo and 4-piece.
Bringing passion and flair to music you can dance, listen, laugh and cry to.
Some recent descriptions of EllY Tree -
“Beautiful songs, lovely singing, fab uke playing...the bass was sublime”
"weirdly wonky punk folk”
We play mainly original material in an art/folk/pop/indie/world music mash-up.
We run 80s and 90s Party Nights across East Anglia.
Top DJs – Using the latest Pioneer DDJ and Denon Controllers with the best edits, mixes and versions of all the great 80s and 90s tunes.
Video – Large Video Screens showing the best 80s and 90s Music Videos, Adverts, Film Trailers and lots more!
Pro Sound – No small DJ Speakers here. Feel and Hear the music with our nightclub class HK professional 10K sound system.
Lighting – Moving Heads, Scanners, Wash Effects, Uplighting Haze, Smoke and Glitterballs!
Fresh ideas, new perspectives and imagination guide our production process. Now in our 42nd year as of 2026, this is testament to our enduring quality and infinite imaginations!
We have a wealth of shows that cater for all types of festivals and events and are happy to create bespoke performances and walkabout characters. Our circus workshops are second to none with the best equipment and lots of it. We also offer venue management in our big top and area organization for an event with a dedicated team.
Fraser Morgan is a rapidly up and coming Folk-Punk/Singer-Songwriter who’s known for their relentless gigging and for bringing to the stage high levels of passion, energy, and showmanship. In 2025 Fraser played their 1,162nd gig off the back of a massive 26-festival-summer!
Fuze is a four-piece indie/rock band that likes to blur the lines of genre with inspirations coming from bands such as Foo Fighters, Green Day and The Rumjacks.
Fuze have played venues across East Anglia and surrounding areas including the Hunter Club in Bury St Edmunds, the Horn in St Albans and the Portland Arms in Cambridge. They were also BurySOUND! finalists and played at Strawberry Fair in 2022.... and next year are booked to play at Rock 'N Vie in Apremont, France.
Grace Calver is an 18 year old singer/songwriter from the Suffolk/Essex border. She has been playing her live set of original songs for almost 2 years including the Inbetweeners Stage at Latitude Festival, Into The Wild Festival, Ipswich Music Day, WAMFest and supporting Thomas Nicholas (who played Kevin Myers in the American Pie movies) on their UK tour. She has performed widely across East Anglia, London, Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire. She also made a guest appearance singing with Tom Lumley and The Brave Liaison at 110 Above Festival. She was very honoured to have been included in the East Anglian Daily Times list of 30 inspiring people under 30 in Suffolk for 2022 and has just won the Female Solo category at this year’s NMG Awards (New Music Generator) covering East Anglia, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. Grace has released 3 singles in 2022 with an EP planned for the end of the year.
Suffolk-based crying cowboy indie band.
Winners of the 2024 BurySound Band Competition
Jan Pulsford is presents the Woodbridge Ambient Music Festival and her ambient music world streams daily on Radio Mothership, an indie station she runs for the local music community in Woodbridge, birthplace of the father of ambient music, Brian Eno.
Kevin Pearce hails from Colchester. Three years ago, Kevin suffered a heart attack (on a golf course). As well as having to redress some lifestyle habits, his rehabilitation involved writing and recording the Sun Cutter project. It is an album of beautiful driving, harmony-drenched indie-soul and folk-rock that looks to the light for reflection. Co-produced with Dean Honer (The Moonlandingz, Eccentronic Research Council), it is at time reminiscent of some purveyors of classic songwriting, such as Tim Buckley, John Lennon, Cat Stevens, albeit with a modern do over. He was also the vocalist and guitarist on I Monster’s “Daydream in Blue”, recently resurrected to advertise Magnum ice creams on the telly.
Mel & Marcel Alt Pop Duo
During the pandemic Mel, a former songwriter and West End performer in The Rocky Horror Show, started writing comedy sketches and songs to help cheer up lock down spirits with the aid of her musician and producer husband Marcel and the internet. After Covid, Mel and Marcel continued their journey with live gigs and films that illustrate their songs, producing and recording from their home a former Georgian pub in Manningtree Essex.
“Our quirky songs are all about life, waiting at stations looking for missing trains, coping with noisy families, celebrating Essex girls, going to funerals, anxiety. These songs are comments on life for all ages and reflect our experience of being parents and having had a life lived on the London art scene. As we get older and have more space, we are loving playing live and the reaction from the crowd as they smile in recognition of our stories being everyone’s stories.”
We are looking forward to future projects and a cameo appearance by Mel & Marcel in a new feature film Love Without Walls by director Jane Gull soon to be released.
Formed in 2017, Nomad is a group of three musicians with a wide range of influences. Our first album, called “Turning Point”, released in 2021, contained exclusively original material and was built on more groove based jazz, in keeping with the origins of the band. However, we were already exploring other directions. As a result, the second album, released in 2025 and titled "See The World", again contains original compositions, but these are now a much truer reflection of our love of music from around the world and contemporary jazz from America and Europe and establishes the band's new approach.
Now embarking on our eighth year we have performed at The Minak Theatre, Mevagissey Shanty Festival and in 2023 at the prestigious Port Isaac Shanty Festival. We are also regular performers at the Harwich International Shanty Festival, we've sung at the Cutty Sark Shanty Festival and other festivals throughout Norfolk.
We have gained an enviable reputation for singing traditional, and not so traditional shanties and songs of the sea in our own unique style
We are incredibly proud of one Crew member who we think is the only British Sign Language signing shantyman in the country.
Expect totally inclusive, laid back, entertaining sessions, full of fantastic harmonies, humour, brilliant musicianship and audience participation.
Like a phoenix, THE BACKDRAFTS have risen from the ashes to become the hardest working rock band in East Anglia.
Comprising of former members of Norfolk Fire Service they continue to blaze a trail playing a blend of classic rock with an abundance of energy and a level of musicianship and vocal skill that leaves audiences wanting more.
Higgy fronts this live act, his warm voice with a sprinkling of Springsteen. Stuart Gibson is on guitar, with his fingers of fury, face melting riffs and stage antics reminiscent of Eddie Van Halen. Rob Forder provides beautiful thunderous bass lines along with the voice of a homesick angel. Drummer Tommy Toggle provides the timing, technique and drive guaranteed to get your toes tapping and hands clapping.
NOT TO BE MISSED!
The Flying Symbols are a 4 piece high octane, rock band based in the Hertfordshire/Essex border. Winners of the 2024 Cambridge Band Competition
The Flying Symbols are experts at large or festival gigs, winning fans and audiences at such events as the Saffron Walden Dance In The Square, Cambridge Band Competition, Bishops Stortford Rugby Club Fireworks Display, Fete De La Musique, Strawberry Fair , Saffron Walden's Coronation Concert, Saffron Walden Town Hall and venues such as the Junction, Cambridge, The Portland Arms, Cambridge and many more.
The Optics are a high-energy funk, soul and Motown covers band, bringing timeless classics to life. We do it because we love it - nothing beats live music, a packed dancefloor and the magic of soul. Let’s dance!
This Circus Life was formed by former advertising man Charlie Mear who has been described as a man who had it
all, lost it all, and now doesn’t want it back! He started writing songs in 2019 as a way to make sense of a seven-year period of personal tragedies and often bizarre experiences. Now with life back on track the band has gone from strength to strength and already have a growing following picked up by regularly playing the east coast festival circuit.
They won the 2021 Ely Folk Festival competition and were runners up in both the 2023 and 2024 Cambridge Band competition. Making comparisons with other well known bands is always tricky, but listeners often reference Turin Brakes, Del Amitri, Squeeze, REM and Crowded House. Indeed, one reviewer described their song ‘Falling star’ as the best Crowded House song not written by Neil Finn! But forget comparisons. The best way to get to know This Circus Life is simply to immerse yourself in their music.
Vincent Vermillion is a young acoustic guitarist with roots in Rockabilly. Americana and Folk. Often compared to Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash and Jake Bugg, he performs original music as well as covers of classic songs.