Danny Kyle Open Stage at Celtic Connections

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Zoë had a great time at The Danny Kyle Open Stage at Celtic Connections last weekend, as did we all. We made some great contacts and as a result she’s been given the opportunity to play at a number of festivals over the coming months. We’ll keep you informed as soon as we’re allowed to let the cat out the bag, so to speak. Here are a couple of songs she sang in her set, … Continue reading

Celtic Connections 2013

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Just a simple update and the pictures says it all – we’re so excited that Zoë has managed to win herself a place on the prestigious Danny Kyle Stage at Celtic Connections 2013. As I type this, Zoë and her Mum are packing the ukes and getting ready for what’s bound to be a very memorable weekend up in Glasgow. If you’re lucky enough to be in Glasgow today (Friday) or tomorrow, look out for … Continue reading

Merry Christmas Everybody

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What a fantastic year it’s been for Zoë, so many highlights, so much achieved and so many wonderful people she’s met along the way. Still recovering from another bout of tonsillitis, she put together this gentle version of Slade’s classic, Merry Christmas Everybody, collected a bunch of photos that represent just some of what’s happened and folk we’ve met and made this little video. And you can now download a high quality mp3 of this song! Simply … Continue reading

Just Another Girl gets Short Listed

We’re so excited and proud that Just Another Girl has been short listed to win a Young Song Writers’ Competition.  The competition is held annually and is run by an Anti-violence Against Women team here in our local region of Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. Zoë wrote this song specifically for this competition last year but didn’t get it completed in time, so hearing it has been short listed for this year is wonderful news. A panel … Continue reading

Next New Song – Listen

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Performing for The CatStrand Theatre’s 5th Birthday Celebrations, here’s Zoë singing her latest song, Listen. The headline act for this night was The Peatbog Faeries, who were brilliant and Zoë shared support with our friend, Calum Gilligan. Another one written for her baritone uke, Luna, Zoë says that this her favourite song to perform… at the moment As usual, we’d love to hear what you think. … Continue reading

Supporting The Peatbog Faeries

I know I’m posting this just hours before the actual gig but I just wanted to share with you what Zoë’s up to. This is going to be a fantastic gig and a great opportunity for Zoë. Have you ever seen the Peatbog Faeries? I haven’t but I’ve heard loads about them and it promises to be a hoot. The Peatbogs have twice been voted “Best Live Act” at the Scottish Traditional Folk Awards Zoë’s good … Continue reading

Supporting Finding Albert – September 2012

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At the beginning of the month, Zoë was lucky enough to be invited to support Finding Albert, the award-winning Scottish band at one of Zoë’s favourite venues, The CatStrand, New Galloway. It was a great night, Zoë had a ball and F/A were brilliant as usual.  We urge you to check these guys out, some seriously talented musicians, well crafted songs, great entertainment and nice guys as well. Follow this link to get to their … Continue reading

A New Ukulele and Another New Song – Butterflies

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We promised you some photographs and more video, well we’ve been having major internet problems and we’ve been struggling to upload anything, so we’re very sorry not to have posted stuff up. I hope you’ll understand. We did however manage to put up a video of Zoë singing her latest song, written on her new baritone ukulele. (It actually took ALL NIGHT to upload this to YouTube!!) We had a great time when we went … Continue reading

A Brand New Song – San Francisco

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This is Zoë’s Dad, Peter, I thought this blog of Zoë’s needed some attention as we’ve not posted very much recently. We aim to remedy that over the coming weeks so you can expect lots of content to be popping up. Zoë has been extremely busy, with lots of gigs, writing new material and some time spent in the studio. We’ve got a ton of photos and some video we want to share with you … Continue reading

Favorite Official Video of 35 Missed Calls

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How utterly cool is this? With just two weeks to go before the release of her first single, 35 Missed Calls, here is the video. This is what Zoe had to say about it, “Having my own music video is amazing, I’m so excited. It was very cold when we were filming, but a lot more fun than I expected. “It’s not easy having to mime even though it’s your own song. “The best bit … Continue reading