*Please note that tickets for this event are being sold via the Queer Emporium box office. Click here to buy tickets:
https://queeremporium.co.uk/products/lez-diff-afterparty
PROGRAMME 5: SATURDAY 18th MAY 7.30pm – 10.30pm THE QUEER EMPORIUM, ST MARY’S STREET
MUSIC & PARTY
Join us in the Royal Arcade for an evening of fun and music! It’s going to be a great night!
With singers Melda Lois, Becky Winfield and Asher Jane.
MELDA LOIS
Melda Lois is a Welsh language alt-folk singer-songwriter from Llanuwchllyn in North Wales. She pairs her gentle fingerstyle guitar playing with poetic lyrics full of love, honesty and melancholy. As a BBC Horizons Launchpad artist for 2023, she recorded her debut EP ‘Symbiosis’, released via I KA CHING Records on the 3rd of May 2024.
Watch Melda perform at the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fdhbch
BECKY WINFIELD
Caerphilly singer Becky Winfield brings a mix of her original material blended with well-known covers in a set that will get you dancing and feeling great.
Last year saw Becky release her debut single, Not Friends Anymore, inspired by the true story of how she fell in love with her friend turned partner, Sophie Pryce – which received extensive airplay on BBC Radio Wales and Radio Cardiff along with making Ian H Watkins’s playlist for his popular Friday night show. Becky has several more tracks due to be released.
ASHA JANE
Songwriter, vocalist, artist.
“Asha Jane, is a soulful voice and literary writer. Her recent material incorporates subjects of innocence and experience in poetry, mythology and sexuality. Taking influences from an eclectic palette and musical background of genre hop-ing, Asha believes a good song is just that, and enjoys collaborating outside her usual ballad-pop style. Fans often liken her to ‘Adele’, ‘Alicia Keys’ or ‘Florence and The Machine’. “
ACCESSIBILITY
The Queer Emporium and Royal Arcade area just outside of it, where this event is being held, is at ground level and there is a disabled toilet. The venue can be approached by car on St Mary’s Street but this is ‘drop off only’. (Note that the Royal Arcade cannot be accessed at this time of night from the other end – it can only be entered into via The Queer Emporium shop and is blocked off after the main stage.)
WALKING DIRECTIONS FROM THE ATRIUM BUILDING TO THE QUEER EMPORIUM (APPROX 11 MINUTES)
Go out of the front doors of Atrium (by the cafe). Turn right and walk in a straight line until you reach St Mary’s Street and then turn right. The Queer Emporium is a few minutes walk up on the right on the corner of St Mary’s Street and the Royal Arcade. (Note that the Royal Arcade cannot be accessed from the other end at this time of night – therefore if you are coming through from the St David’s Centre then cut through Caroline Street (Chippy Lane) to get to St Mary’s Street.)
THE QUEER EMPORIUM WEBSTE: https://queeremporium.co.uk/