Get to know our 2026 artists: Fiona Bevan and Adam Beattie

FIONA BEVAN AND ADAM BEATTIE - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4TH @ 7PM

Saturday Panelists and Sunday Songwriting workshops

fionabevan.bandcamp.com

fionabevan.co.uk

www.adambeattie.com

@fionabevan

@mradambeattie

[ What a treat these two are together! Somehow Fiona’s pop works with Adam’s trad. This duo came on tour to BC last year. We welcome them with open arms our stage! ]

Fiona Bevan is a multi-platinum Canadian-British singer-songwriter from Suffolk, with a delicate, passionate voice and a cinematic dream-folk sound, described by Björn Ulvaeus from ABBA as ‘daring and exciting’, and creating ‘startling odysseys that suggest Joanna Newsom and Kate Bush spine-tinglingly joined’ (The Guardian).

Fiona has been teasing out singles from her self-produced EP, Girl With Telescope, including her dazzling exploration of post-heartbreak ecstasy ‘Faultlines’, and her acapella clarion call of female freedom and pleasure, ‘Peaches’. She is about to start releasing more self-produced singles from her forthcoming EP ‘First Woman On The Moon’.

Fiona has toured Canada, Australia and Europe, and is also a hit songwriter for Billie Marten, Aurora, Lewis Capaldi, Tom Walker, Kylie, Ed Sheeran, and has been working with ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus to raise awareness and help songwriters in the music industry. She is published by Concord Music.

Adam Beattie is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist who has just released his fifth solo album to critical acclaim. Beattie is a “master of powerful narratives” (★★★★★ RnR Magazine), writing original contemporary Scottish folk songs while also drawing rich influences from other roots genres. Adam uses beautiful, intricate, finger-picked guitar and a distinctive voice steeped in smoke and honey to create ‘uplifting reveries of love’ (MOJO Magazine).

The press described Beattie’s latest album, Somewhere Round The Bend, as ‘Stirring Folk Balladry’ (Line Of Best Fit) with Loud And Quiet Magazine writing ‘the album is mesmeric’. Adam is about to start releasing singles from his forthcoming album ‘Home Fires Burning’. Adam is also a member of trad folk 12-piece supergroup Band Of Burns as well as hipster alt-folk band Pica Pica on Rough Trade Records.

As a multi-instrumentalist he has collaborated with Birdy, Lulu, Michael Chapman, Mikey Kenney and many others. Adam is published by Karousel / Wixen Publishing. Scottish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist 'Incredibly Beautiful' - Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC RADIO 6 MUSIC 'Carefully crafted, gently affecting songwriting' - Roddy Hart, BBC RADIO SCOTLAND