Jess Morgan Trio to release their new single 'Natalie' at SPOC on 26th May

We are pleased to announce that our next LCM showcase at St. Pancras Old Church on the 26th May will be the official release concert for 'Natalie', the brand new single from The Jess Morgan Trio. Natalie with be the first single taken from their great new album.

Special guests on the night include Jack Harris and Steve Jones (Stylusboy). Our host for the evening will be the excellent Tom du Croz. It would be great to see you all there

Advance concession tickets are just £10

http://www.wegottickets.com/sct/R5SrthZsJf

Hattie Briggs wins 2015 LCM Favourite New Artist

We are very thrilled to announce that 2015 LCM Favourite New Artist of the Year is the wonderful Hattie Briggs. Hattie wins the next award from the Laurel Canyon Music Fund (which is created from the money we make in profit from our gigs and used to support the projects of up-and-coming independent musicians). Hattie also receives a guaranteed perfomance slot at one of our LCM gigs. Hattie will be on tour shortly and releasing her highly anticipated second album, so please go and see her if she visits near you or please join us in London on the 17th March at SPOC. If you would like to find out more about Hattie, you can either visit her website http://www.hattiebriggs.co.uk/ or I can highly recommend this excellent radio special with Daria from a F-Spot live session last year.https://www.mixcloud.com/…/the-f-spot-live-sessions-16-hat…/

Our runner-up is a musician and good friend who I have known for a number of years, the lovely Daria Kulesh. Daria wins 4 VIP Tickets to a LCM gig of her choice.

In the bronze medal winning postion is another very good singer-songwriter who will be supporting Kelly Oliver at Uxbridge Folk Club soon,Amy Goddard Music. Amy wins 2 VIP Tickets to a LCM gig of her choice.

Congratulations also to Katie (Little Sparrow) and Steve Pledger who also did so well in our poll. They both have great debut albums, which are some of our favourites. A big thank you and congratulations too to all of our final nominees who polled strongly Minnie Birch (last years LCM Music Fund winner), Kadia (The Band), Kelly Oliver, Tobias Ben Jacob andLukas Drinkwater, Marina Flo and Iona Lane Music.

A huge thank you and congratulations to all the nominees on our list and to everyone who took time to comment, vote and listen to their music. We hope that you have enjoyed discovering the music of artists new to you and hope that you will go to see and meet some of your new found favourites this year. We will be shortly announcing the winner of the ticket draw for the people who voted in the poll.

Wishing you all another great year of music

Thanks to Rob Bridge for the great photograph of Hattie

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.

First concert announced in LCM Spring series - The Willows and Hattie Briggs

LCM are thrilled to announce a new spring series of showcase concerts at the historic and intimate St. Pancras Old Church, London. Headlining on Thursday 17th March will be one of our favourite bands the award-winning The Willows together with a very special guest one of our favourite young singer-songwriters Hattie Briggs. Both are excellent live and have released 5* rated albums in the past year.

Tickets are available now with early bird's at just £10 + bf and advance at £12 + bf.

Not to be missed

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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.

Laurel Canyon Music launch new website

Laurel Canyon Music are delighted to officially release a new webiste www.laurelcanyonuk.com. We hope that it will be a very valuable resourse for independent musicians and music fans alike.

Laurel Canyon Music Awards (May 2015) - Minnie Birch

We are delighted to announce that the first winner of the Laurel Canyon Music Award is Minnie Birch (Emily Jacques). We are thrilled to have been able to support Emily's debut album 'Floundering', which has just recently been released. 

http://www.minniebirch.co.uk/

The Awards are funded by any profits that the LCM makes in promoting and organising gigs. The LCM fund is designed to help selected Group members with their musical projects.

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.