Featured Artist: Connie Gordon

Warning: This show may contain future headliners! Phillip Stoneman introduces the best new music from our area, including:

• It's the event where the rolling hills of Herefordshire reverberate to the sounds of wobbly basslines, mosh pits and a true independent festival atmosphere. Go behind-the-scenes at Bromyard's Into The Valley, the reincarnation of Nozstock: Two days, five stages, a whole new drum and bass arena from a converted cow shed - it's the event that, quite literally - leaves an imprint on those who call it home.

• In the Music News: After decades of being in disrepair, a unique performance space in Telford re-opens, pop music's biggest Port Vale fan stars on the pitch at the World Cup Final and Snow Patrol make a startling admission about a local riverside town.

• Crowds are packing in to the courtyard and ramparts rattle to every beat - we're in Ludlow as it becomes less medieval stronghold and more main-stage fortress - including performances this weekend from acts chosen by us opening for Rick Astley and Richard Ashcroft.

• Their members have worked with bands including ELO, The Move and Black Sabbath: Discover the Worcestershire band Quill, featuring rock royalty Bev Bevan, taking to the road this weekend in Tenbury Wells.

• Fewer than 1% of musicians ever get one: Catch up with the Stokie singer who's picked up a Gold Record, courtesy in her part of a track that's sold 15million copies worldwide.

• From Much Wenlock to Whitchurch, Hopfton Wafers and now Bromyard. We're at Festival At The Edge, discovering the art of captivating your audience, courtesy of the team behind the country's longest-running story-telling festival.

• In our Festival Guide: Utah Saints, Rozalla and Tiny Strider are at Dubbed Out near Knutsford plus James Arthur, Example, Bewdley's Becky Hill and Jax Jones at Together Again in Bolesworth Castle, Cheshire.

• It was an open mic which changed her life: Discover a first BBC Introducing performance from Malvern's Connie Gordon, performing amongst the hundreds of thousands of flowers at the Three Counties Showground.

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