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Will is currently studying 'Music As Physio' in which he examines the effect of music as part of physiotherapy and physical rehabilitation.

Janet Devlin is a 25-year-old Northern Irish singer-songwriter who is in the music business for 5 years, releasing numerous singles, eps and albums. She taught herself to play instruments by ear and penned her own songs. Her musicality and determination flourished from a young age and she joined YouTube in 2006 at age 12 to push out her music to the public. In 2011, she caught the public’s attention on Series 8 of The X Factor, where she consistently received the highest consecutive public vote out of all the contestants and gained a place on the live arena tour. Janet’s debut, Running With Scissors was released in the UK in June 2014 (reaching number one on the UK Indie Breakers chart) and in North America in Feb 2015.

Kaity Raes work so far has been played on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 6, Amazing radio, Country Hits Radio, been playlisted on Spotify’s editorial and New Music Friday playlists. Her most recent work includes co-writing the first single ‘New Year’ from the forthcoming new album from The Shires with band member Ben Earle, and co writing/producing four singles for BETSIE GØLD.

The Marsicans are a band from the UK who have recently signed to an independent record label. The band will release their debut album 'Ursa Major' on August 14th 2020. Marsicans' manager, Rob Eaglesham, has worked with the band, developing them for over 5 years and helping them with touring, social media and releases.

Emily White is an entrepreneur, talent manager, and author of new book 'How to Build a Sustainable Music Career & Collect All Revenue Streams'. She has previously worked closely with The Dresden Dolls, Imogen Heap and tour managed acts all over the world. Emily also founded #iVoted, in which over 150 venues in 37 states let fans in on Election Night 2018, who showed a selfie from outside of their polling place. She is also a public speaker and consultant due to her expertise within the modern music, artist development, social media, and beyond.

Bob James looks back at over 20 Years of music industry experience including publishing, working for record labels and in artist relations. He has experience in almost every aspect of the music industry including a strong contact network. Still an active manager, maintaining a roster of artists and writers, including Kelvin Jones. Bob has been a consultant for many labels including arista records (BMG) and EMI Records. He has been part of a production team with projects signed to Warners, MCA and Telstar Records. He regularly sits on industry panels and lectures on the music industry and new business models. Furthermore he is a mindfulness coach and teacher, mentor for business and music business clients.

Shell Zenner is a a vintage dress wearing, cupcake making, vinyl junkie and new music obsessive! Leicestershire born and bred, but now living and breathing Salford, Manchester and the North West. She gets kicks from obscure instruments, flea markets, festivals, gigs and sharing the best new music around.

Upon completion of his degree in music production, Ben Matravers was readily able to establish himself in the wider industry. As a versatile producer, musician, songwriter and studio engineer, Ben set up Song Mason Studios and has worked with a diverse portfolio of artists to date, most notably Hannah Trigwell. He has either written, produced or engineered songs with a total of over 300 million streams so far.

Heather Peace was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire. She has been playing piano since she was six years old, and guitar since her teens. She is not only known for her role as Nikki Boston in the drama "Waterloo Road", but also organizer of the "HearHer" festival, celebrating female musicians and artists.

Tom has been playing over 240 shows in the United States - in one year. But that's not it: He also won the Mercury Award with his band, Gomez. Nowadays he is the head of PRS for Music and has been focussing on songwriting and setting up marketing campaigns for other artists. #brokenrecord