Dave Burn

London singer-songwriter Dave Burn has been playing in bands since he was 13, and he just can’t shake the bug. A pioneer of UK alt-country, he co-founded the harmony-heavy ahab with Callum Adamson, and later joined indie Americana ‘supergroup’ Orphan Colours. Along with two solo albums - 2017’s Arizona and 2025’s Medium Dave + Friends - he also records as duo The Marriage with Kirsten Adamson and has written songs with Danny & The Champions Of The World, Blair Dunlop, Danni Nicholls, Benjamin Folke Thomas, Katzenjammer, Sol Heilo.

Burn’s music takes elements of Brit folk artists such as Richard Thompson and American singer-songwriters from Tim Rose to Tom Petty, then blends them with the sound of classic London indie bands and UK Americana, topped off with literary, twisting lyrics examining both life’s biggest questions and its most fascinating ordinary moments.

"(Dave Burn) has an ability to come up with hooks that dig into the mind and refuse to leave" - KLOF Mag (Previously Folk Radio UK)

"captures an atmospheric reality set somewhere between Neil Young and Calexico" - Spiral Earth

Barbara Forstner

Franco-American Barbara Forstner spent twelve years in New York before settling in France. From her transatlantic journey, she retains a passion for American folk and country music, which she combines with sensitive and inspired songwriting.

Her debut album "Long Long Gone" was released late last year.

Recorded in June 2025 in Paris with her friend and sound engineer Léo Aubry, Long Long Gone is an acoustic album, raw and vulnerable. Barbara tackles friendship, love and family, but also the fragile beauty and melancholy of the world. Written between New York and Paris, the album explores lost love, eroding friendships, life abroad and fleeting encounters. Bittersweet and luminous at the same time, it suspends time, carried by a warm voice and lyrics of disarming sincerity.

Barbara has attracted the attention of media outlets such as France Inter, FIP and Rolling Stone, and played on stages From Rockwood in New York to La Cigale in Paris, and the End of the Road festival in UK, as well as opening for artists such as Charlie Winston and Herman Dune.

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