Andriiana
Andriiana is a Ukrainian singer-songwriter based in Edinburgh, who creates emotionally honest indie pop music. Writing in both English and Ukrainian, her music explores themes of identity, belonging, and emotional growth through intimate vocals and atmospheric production. Her songwriting is grounded in raw honesty and relatability, offering listeners a sense of comfort and connection. She is currently developing her live performance while working on her debut releases, establishing herself as an emerging artist with a meaningful and emotionally driven artistic voice.
Instagram: @andriiana.zakhariia
Cici Chen
Cici Chen is an Edinburgh-based multilingual singer-songwriter originally from Shenzhen, China. Drifting between indie folk and acoustic pop, her music traces love, longing, and quiet becoming. Her latest single, To Someone I Loved, has been featured on BBC Radio Scotland, Amazing Radio, and The LOUD WOMEN Radio. She has performed at Hidden Door Festival, St James Quarter, and venues across Edinburgh such as Leith Depot, The Wee Red Bar, and People’s Leisure Club. This time, she will step outside her comfort zone with a soul-drenched pop/rock song – raw, passionate, and vintage, as if it’s being wrung out of her.
Instagram: @cici_chen_music
Hannah Robertson
Hannah is a non-binary singer songwriter and fiddle player from Inverness with care experience. They have played at Belladrum and many other venues.
Jennifer Banks
Jennifer Banks is a London-based singer-songwriter from County Durham, blending pop, country and indie influences with honest, story-led songwriting. Her music explores the highs and lows of your twenties – heartbreak, growing pains and feeling lost – paired with witty, relatable observations of everyday life.
Inspired by pop culture, film and people-watching, Jennifer’s songs draw from real experiences, delusional fantasies and the chaos of navigating young adulthood. Currently developing her live set, she is focused on creating an intimate, elegant and authentic experience for audiences.
Kohrah
Kohrah is a Glasgow-based Portuguese singer-songwriter blending pop rock and indie influences into a sound shaped by sweetness and melancholy. Her songs explore trauma, emotional extremes, and deeply personal experiences, turning real moments into melodic storytelling. At the core of Kohrah’s artistry is a naturally naive perspective and emotional openness that runs through both their personality and music. With heartfelt lyrics, strong arrangements, and a comforting yet expressive voice, Kohrah creates music that feels intimate, honest, and deeply human.
Lisa Mason
Lisa Mason is a singer-songwriter who writes everything from country tracks to songs about real life and her own experiences. She can play lots of different instruments and she puts all her feelings and stories into every lyric and tune she makes. Music is her favorite way to share what matters to her, and she hopes her songs feel real and relatable to everyone who listens.
Instagram: @lisamason8612
LinkedIn: Lisa Mason
Maisie Skipper
Maisie Skipper is an emerging London-based artist whose raw, melodic songwriting blends edge with strikingly honest storytelling. Having grown up surrounded by music, her passion for singing was undeniable from an early age, as was her love for music.
Now developing her distinct voice, Maisie draws inspiration from artists such as Evanescence, Alice in Chains and Florence + the Machine, crafting songs that balance unapologetic intensity with intimacy. At just 18, she is already establishing herself as a compelling new talent. Her debut track, Blackening Sky, features on the First Stages album.
Misty-Jo
Misty‑Jo is an Edinburgh‑based French‑British singer‑songwriter who creates melodic, cinematic indie‑pop that blends vulnerability with quiet power. She draws on atmospheric indie and pop‑rock influences with subtle orchestral textures. Her work has received support from BBC Introducing, Creative Edinburgh and The Skinny. Continuing to shape her artistic journey, she performed her new song Keep Singing at Green Note in London as she develops a sound that is expressive, dynamic and quietly unpredictable.
Instagram: @mistyjoofficial
Palesa Hammond
Palesa Hammond is a Basotho Scottish singer song writer who found her voice through Jazz, soul and pop. She uses song writing as a way to explore story telling.
Rona Bryden
Rona Bryden is a Glasgow based songwriter blending rock and blues with powerful lyrics. Her music explores everyday life and identity, shaped by it’s ability to transport you back in time. Drawing on past influences to produce an intriguing new sound. Rona has played venues such as Nice N’ Sleazy’s, 1990, King Tut’s and multiple showcases in and around Glasgow.
She is known for her energetic and electrifying live show and stage presence. She is currently working on new material with a look to recording in the future.
Instagram & Tiktok: @rona.brydenmusic
YouTube: Rona Bryden
Ross Gibson
Ross Gibson is a songwriter based in Dumfries, with folky vibes and poetic lines. He is inspired by nature daily.
Rowan Douglas
Lyrid is the new indie-rock project launched by Glasgow based artist Rowan Douglas to coincide with the release of Good Day on the First Stages album. With influences such as Teenage Fanclub, The Smashing Pumpkins and Momma, Lyrid’s sound blends raw, confessional lyrics with grungy, distorted guitar. Inspired by alt-rock of the 90s, Good Day pairs bright melodies and driving hooks with an undercurrent of tension, capturing the strange comfort of holding onto something you know is already slipping away. Equal parts cathartic and bittersweet, the track introduces Lyrid as a project rooted in emotional honesty, loud guitars and melody-first songwriting.
Zoe Eliza
Anybody can listen to music, and I think everybody should. Knowing this makes me love it even more. When people feel at their lowest, a song can lift them back up. In a gentle melody, they might feel more heard than they have done in a long time. I know that I have. I write and perform music for this very reason. If a melody has saved me more times than I can count, maybe my music can do it even just once for another. I truly hope it will.
Instagram: @musiczoeeliza