Checkout our video interview with Elisabeth Barker-Carley, and a detailed feature below:
By Bemi (Founder Mor Music Group)
I first spoke to
Elisabeth Barker-Carley in January of this year (2014), and my first impression
– she is beautiful inside and out. Elisabeth is the lady behind Play at LMF –
an audition process for local acts to perform alongside big acts including
Labrinth, Tinie Tempah, Professor Green, The Saturdays, Union J, UB40, Kool and
the Gang, Soul II Soul, Billy Ocean, Leicester’s own X Factor 2013 winner Sam
Bailey, and other big acts.
Elisabeth owns and
runs Dreaming In Colour Productions. This entails managing bands, tours,
hosting events, as well as occasionally booking tours for bands.Currently she wears
many hats including PLAY at LMF, The Jitterbug (Leicester's only electro swing
night), Roulette (a new multi genre night at Pi Bar every first Wednesday of
the month) and managing Midnight Wire. She is also on the Oxjam Leicester team.
Elisabeth is one of
the people putting Leicester on the music industry map, along with other people
on the Leicester music scene including the presenters at BBC Radio Leicester
and Kevin Gaughan of Takeover Radio Leicester (they are credited with featuring
up and coming artists on radio shows). You can read more about Kevin on our
previous blog feature (click here).
Play at LMF
received tonnes of applications from up and coming UK artists; and Elisabeth had to shortlist
the applicants to 120. The next step was a free voting process to select 50
acts for the live heat performance. Currently, the live heats are taking place
in Leicester every week until the first week in May (you can view the heats
information on Play at LMF Facebook link below). 10 acts will be selected (from
the heat) to perform at the semi-finals on May 30 and 31st.
The finals of Play
at LMF will be held on June 13th. Two local acts will support the big acts
performing at the Leicester Music Festival, along with first local band already
confirmed to perform - Formal Warning (you can read more about Formal Warning in our previous blog feature click here).
I am rooting for
Elisabeth, and the organisers of Leicester Music Festival, as they have worked
so hard to make this successful. We invite all music lovers across the UK,
Europe, and the world to come on down to Leicester,UK - come support the
Leicester Music Festival and Leicester’s music industry.Leicester Music
Festival will be held on July 25 and 26, 2014. Ticket sales information is
available on the official festival website (see link below).
Below are the Facebook, Twitter, and website links for Play at LMF, Leicester Music Festival (LMF), and Dreaming In Colours Productions.You can follow the Twitter and like the Facebook pages to show your support.
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