Elliot Porter and Rachel Hill live at The Cambridge Union

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Elliot Porter

“Elliot Porter’s music is beautiful with lovely Lennon and Damien Rice-esque melodies that stay with you and touch the soul”.
- Lonely Oak Radio

Being from a musical family, Cambridge singer-songwriter Elliot Porter grew up listening to his father and grandfather playing music and used to watch them from the side of the stage.



With a taste for music, his life initially took a different path until he was made redundant from his job. On that same day, he had just bought his first small stage piano but had no job to fund it. So with a piano under his arm and modest redundancy money, Elliot set out making his first record with the hope of making music his new life.



He has not looked back since and with critical acclaim and airplay from national radio including BBC Radio 2 with ‘Keep Going’, a host of top support slots and a whole album worth of new material recorded, he is ready to let the world hear his best work.



Radio Play: BBC Radio 2, BBC Cambridge, BBC Suffolk, Cambridge 105, BBC Essex



‘Confident, warm and very beautiful’ - Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2



Artists Supported: Toploader, Alabama 3, The Bluetones, Mo Kenney, Leddra C



During the Coronavirus Pandemic in early 2020, Elliot led a group of 18 musicians raising over £2000 with a cover of Frank Turner's Be More Kind'. Frank even recorded an intro for it!


'That Be More Kind cover is killer' - Frank Turner

www.elliotporter.co.uk


Rachel Hill

Rachel Hill is an acclaimed folk-inspired singer-songwriter celebrated for her captivating live performances and evocative songwriting. Revered for her mastery of live vocal looping, Rachel's vocals have been lauded as 'gorgeous, commanding, and enchanting' (Indie Top 39), creating immersive and unforgettable experiences for her audiences. Influenced by artists including Paris Paloma and Lizzie McAlpine Rachel's music resonates with listeners on a deep emotional level.

From a young age, Rachel has lived and breathed music, training as a classical soprano and channelling her experiences into songwriting from the age of 12. She later studied music at the University of Cambridge before completing a masters in Commercial Songwriting and Production. She is now a full-time freelance artist, songwriter, and producer based in Cambridge.



In the last year Rachel has won the prestigious Purbeck Rising award at the Purbeck Valley Folk Festival as well as receiving widespread acclaim from BBC Introducing. Last June she released her debut album ‘Words Left Unsaid’, which she toured across Germany for three weeks with the support of a grant from Help Musicians UK. Rachel is already in the midst of planning her return to Germany for her second international tour this autumn, largely made-up of house concerts; a form of performance which the artist really advocates for. In her own words: ‘not only do house concerts bring the most incredibly unique, and intimate atmosphere to a performance, they also bypass the gatekeeping of venues which consistently provides a barrier to independent artists like me’.

https://www.rachelhillmusic.com/