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Zoëfied David Gray Cover

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Just a quick ditty to celebrate 1300 likes on Facebook.

Only just learnt it this afternoon and thought I’d just stick it up as a free download if you wish, and hopefully, maybe introduce some people into the amazing world of David Gray (But who would that be, you should all know his awesomeness). Apologies for the minor mistakes, I was excited :3

Enjoy and well done for reading that big chunk of text, hope you enjoy more of my stuff :)

P.S To download click on ‘Download’ under the ‘Share’ button in the app above

Exciting News REVEALED!

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The wait is OVER! We can finally reveal what’s been going on *woop*: So to make sure you’re getting the latest news first and before anyone else, look on the left to find ‘Join Team Bestel’ box where you can insert your name and email and immediately become part of our mailing list so you will be the first to know when the single/video/any other exciting news is available Here’s some Behind the Scenes pics … Continue reading →

Comlongon Rocks Festival Launch Party

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Zoe Bestel with Emma's Imagination

Had a great time at the Press Launch Party for Comlongon Rocks the other day. I played a little set and watched some of the other acts that will be performing at the festival in May Also got the chance to have a chat with the lovely Emma from Emma’s Imagination. If you haven’t already, you should go check her out now! I love her music and she’s a lovely person too. http://emmasimagination.com/ Details of … Continue reading →

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

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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 →

Shiny new song: Long, Distant Relationship

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‘Ello guys! It’s the October half term, so for the next two weeks I’m off school (although I’m revising and have a heap of homework), I’m going to try and get in the spare-room studio and do some recordings, some more covers and stuff… Anyhoo, on Saturday I finally finished the words to a song that’s riff has been flying round my head for ages (probably driving mum and dad insane LOL), and thought I’d … 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 →