Chapters Unplugged is delighted to host this show in our lovely Chapters Coffee & Books in Sturry, bringing together two wonderful artists.

Andrew Rodgers is a MusicNL award-winning and ECMA-nominated singer-songwriter from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Blending Rock and Americana influences, he has built a reputation for powerful vocals, honest songwriting, and captivating live performances.

His debut album, Let It Out, released in 2024, earned multiple MusicNL nominations and an ECMA nomination.

In addition to his work as a solo artist, Andrew has gained recognition as a songwriter. His co-write "Already Gone," recorded by Quote the Raven, won the 2025 East Coast Music Award for Roots Release of the Year.

Whether performing intimate acoustic shows or commanding festival stages, Andrew delivers an engaging, heartfelt performance.

Andrew is delighted to be joined for this show by Kent based poet Rosie Johnston.

Rosie's fifth book of poetry, Safe Ground, was published by Mica Press in spring 2025. Lapwing Publications published her first four books between 2010 and 2019 using their hand-powered printing press near the Cave Hill in Rosie's native Belfast. Irish publisher and critic Billy Mills chose 'Six-Count Jive' (Lapwing) as one of his three poetry books of the year in 2020 and said: 'This is an important little book. Read it.' Rosie has contributed to a host of anthologies and literary publications in the UK, Ireland and the United States.

She reads her poetry widely, including at the Faversham Literary Festival (each year since 2020, where she also hosts), Gloucester Poetry Festival, Canterbury Festival, Hungerford Literary Festival, Watford’s Big Word festival, Vigo and Glasgow Universities, In-Words in Greenwich, Winchester’s Loose Muse, the Linen Hall Library and Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast, the Poetry Cafe in Covent Garden, the Troubadour, Torriano, the Norwich Bicycle Shop and the Pie Factory in Margate. Rosie's been interviewed by Sian Thomas for the prestigious Poetry Bath radio programme and is currently part of Canterbury's Poetry and Prosecco series.

Since 2014 Rosie has reviewed poetry for online culture magazine London Grip. Over the years she has run a variety of writing groups too and her new book on how to sustain a lifelong writing practice has been provisionally accepted will be published by an American publisher in 2027. Her work in progress is a novel (to be her third) and, for herself as much as anybody else, she's running writing buddy or 'quiet writing' groups in Chapters, Sturry and The Old Curiosity Shop, Broadstairs.