Featured Artist: Wandera

Available for 31 days

Warning: This show may contain your next obsession! Andrew Marston introduces the best new music from our area, including: • Hot tubs, folk music and a growing audience. We catch up with the team behind one of Shropshire's most distinctive festivals - Beardy Folk. • It’s less birdsong, more bassline this week. Forest Live is transforming Cannock Chase and Delamere into open-air stages packed with huge names including Billy Ocean, Fatboy Slim, Becky Hill, McFly, UB40 featuring Ali Campbell, Skunk Anansie, Garbage, The Kooks, Sarah Story, Hannah Wants and Bitty McLean. • What started with “why not bring them here instead” has become festival history. As Linton Festival wraps up its final weekend, it leaves behind a soundtrack of headline sets, shared stories, and £150,000 raised for good causes. • From a biker gathering to a 25-year festival tradition. We're hearing how Sonic Rock Solstice grew into one of Worcestershire's most distinctive local festivals. • Our Festival Guide looks ahead to seven days of live music at Daresbury, FakeFest, Parklands, Glastonbeoley, Upton Jazz and the Summer Concerts series at Trentham Gardens. • In our Music News: Hearing from the local musicians who've accidentally penned World Cup songs! • Celebrating with Nantwich’s Desyfer as he scores his 16th Top 100 entry, building on a long-standing career that includes releases on major dance labels, Essential Mix support and performances in Ibiza’s superclubs. • She once sang in school productions in Sandbach. Fast forward and Lisa T is topping iTunes Country charts and sharing festival bills from Glastonbury to Kendal Calling. Now she’s mid-way through a UK tour with a story that keeps building. • This month’s sessions come from StourJam, a brand-new event that’s already the biggest UK charity music festival based on the number of live music performances, bringing 344 artists across 15 venues and 20 stages over three days. This week we hear from Wandera, a Worcester-based artist merging Kenyan roots with UK rap, R&B and Afrobeats, crafting genre-crossing music that reflects life between Nairobi, university life in Worcester and beyond. Upload your tracks now: bbc.co.uk/introducing