LCM Awards for 2015

We are delighted to announce that the 2015 LCM Award for Best album is awarded to Esteesee by Ange Hardy. Congratulations again Ange on a great album and a very successful 2015. With Ange's new partnership with Lukas Drinkwater and new projects on the horizon, we are sure that this success will continue into 2016.

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Huge congratulations also to Tracey Browne and Raevennan Husbandes for securing the No. 2 position. East by Northwest is also another gem of an album, well worth adding to your music collection.

Thank you everyone who voted for your favourite album of the year.

The final results are;-

#1 Ange Hardy - Esteesee (AOTM Sep)
#2 Tracey Browne & Rae Husbandes - East by Northwest (AOTM Feb)
#3 Amy Goddard - Burn & Glow.
#4 Steve Pledger - Striking Matches In The Wind
#5 Hattie Briggs - Red & Gold (AOTM May)
#6 Paper Aeroplanes - Joy (AOTM Apr)
#7 Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin - Watershed (AOTM Oct)
#8 Jason Isbell - More Than Free
Minnie Birch - Floudering
#10 Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman - Tomorrow Will Follow Today
Black Feathers - Soaked to the Bone.

We would like to give an special LCM Group Award for Best Debut album of 2015 jointly to Hattie Briggs for 'Red & Gold' and Minnie Birch for 'Floundering'.

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We would also like to give another special LCM Group Award for Best EP again jointly to Jess Morgan for 'The Bournemouth EP' and to Hattie Whitehead for 'Home'.

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2015 was another excellent year for music, with Folk, Country and Singer-Songwriters genres doing partically well. All the nominees in our final list have produced some very good albums and all are worth exploring. We are honoured to have so many talent musicians as part of our FB Group.

Our First LCM Concert at SPOC is a resounding success

With amazing musicians, a sell-out attentive and appreciative audience and amazing sound our first LCM showcase concert at the historic St. Pancras Old Church, London was a resounding success. A huge thank you to Beth Rowley and her Band (Rob Updegraff & Joe Harvey-Whyte), Little Sparrow (Katie Ware) & Sarah Dale and Hattie Whitehead. Also to the LCM team on the night, our compere and MC Tom Du Croz, our Sound Engineer Alex Carson, Shay Rowan, Minnie Birch and Damien O'Doherty.

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Big thanks for Mike Watts and Oleg Katchinski for the photographs.

Beth Rowley to perform special concert at St Pancras Old Church, London

Laurel Canyon Music are thilled to announce a special concert to be held on Friday 25th September at London's historic St.Pancras Old Church by one of our favourite singer-songwriters, Beth Rowley. Beth will be performing this rare London gig with her band before the release later this year of her highly anticipated second album. Beth will also be joined by two special guests and excellent singer-songwriters Little Sparrow (Katie Ware) and Hattie Whitehead

The evening will be MC'ed by a great supporter of independent music in London, Tom Du Croz of the London Gig Guide.

We hope all of you will join us for this very special night of music.

New Series of Showcase concerts at St. Pancras Old Church

Laurel Canyon Music are thrilled to announce a new showcase series of concerts at one of London's most beautiful, inimate and historical music venues, St. Pancras Old Church, London. The venue is one of the oldest church sites in the UK, dating back to the 4th Century.

Just a stone's throw from King's Cross/St. Pancras Station, St. Pancras Old Church is one of London's first choice venue's for musicians.

Our first concert held on Friday 25th September will feature the award-winning and BRIT nominated singer-songwriter Beth Rowley with very special guests Little Sparrow (Katie Ware) and Hattie Whitehead. Not to be missed.

Our second planned for Friday 16th October will feature some of our favourite musicans. Headlining for us is the award-winning folk-rock band from Cambridge Fred's House with very special guests a classically inspired London based indie folk trio August & After and one of our favourite singer-songwriters Roxanne De Bastion

It would be great if you could join us on these special nights.