Local acts playing London's O2 Arena

Caution: This show may contain future stars! Andrew Marston introduces the best new music from our area, including:

• Meeting our local success stories who are performing at Europe's biggest country music festival this weekend.

• We first championed her on BBC Introducing. Since then Katherine Priddy has topped the Official Folk Albums Chart twice, played Glastonbury and the Royal Albert Hall. Now the Alvechurch singer is back with album number three, These Frighting Machines.

• In our Music News: the Hay Festival, Theatre Severn and Stoke City’s stadium will welcome some of the biggest names in music.

• Home Thoughts From Abroad: An audio postcard arrives from New Jersey, featuring Derek Brown’s Lunasmith, whose members span Shropshire, Brazil and America.

• After a 30-foot fall that shattered multiple bones and saw him spend 16 weeks in a wheelchair, Stoke-on-Trent’s Oli Eyre is back, touring across Europe with his brand-new stage show.

• From Worcestershire to Radio 1’s Big Weekend, one star we’ve backed for years get the ultimate surprise on-air.

• In our Musicians Masterclass: From running five-night gigs at The Artisan Tap to battling floods at The Rigger, local promoters share what it really takes to keep a music scene alive.

• From Seoul to Shropshire, K-pop’s biggest hits are finding fans everywhere.

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