Indie

After a stellar debut last year, Keynsham Music Festival’s dedicated showcase of youth talent returns. We were so impressed with the quality and diversity of the performances last year that we invited several of them back to perform on the Sunday main stages! With over 60 young performers this year, we are giving even more prominence to them by moving it to The Abbey Stage. This is definitely the place to see the next generation of superstars!

Keynsham Music Festival presents the very best in youth talent!

Emerging Bristol band - KODACHROME - combine Indie, Prog, Rock, Funk, Metal and Soul. A 'genre inclusive' approach to music that reflects the talents of their band members and encapsulates current listening approach - to the widest range of music - from today's audiences. This highly energetic group posses an extraordinary authority on stage. With a huge emphasis on putting on a show - of showcasing every single song as story. This makes them hugely different from bands around them - visual performance being highly important to them and a standout feature of their hugely exciting live shows. As well as headliners at major city venues in Bath and Bristol - the band are regulars at The Fleece and The Louisiana and just played a sell out show at the Thekla on Bristol's harbourside. They have played across the South West at Music Festivals such as Harbourfest, Solara, Exeter, Bath & West and as headliners at Keynsham twice now. Summer 2025 they will be performing again at Keynsham Festival, at Outcider Festival, Inglefest and on the main stage at Lakeside Festival. The band, who are studying for their A levels, have a growing, faithful fan base and their social media IG & Tik Tok accounts are hugely active. Fronted by teenage twins AVA and CONAN the band members include LULU, TARA, TYMON and HARRISON- all gifted young musicians and song writers. They fit in the writing, recording and release of their own songs whilst fitting in gigs around school. In another two years from now - who can say where they will be...

Nothing Rhymes With Orange (NRWO) - are a UK indie rock band producing anthemic originals for a rapidly growing audience of passionate fans. Tracks are packed full of blistering energy, urgent lyrics and propelling drums. Members Elijah Easton (guitarist, lead vocalist), Samuel Briggs (bassist), Lui Venables (drummer), Fin Anderson-Farquhar (lead guitarist) each share a love of music and take inspiration from bands such as Kings of Leon, The 1975, Fontaines D.C and The Killers.

KALA CHNG is a half-Chinese British Pop music artist from Knowle West, Bristol, UK. As songwriter, singer and producer she creates an original blend of Pop music with Chinese sounds and urban influences (influenced by Bristol bass, grime and dubstep beats, classical Chinese instruments, catchy pop lines, and R&B).

Digsby are a Bristol indie band, mixing classic 60s/70s song writing, alt country, blues, and rock, all tied together with Laurel Canyon infused harmonies. Digsby blends all of these influences with a mutual obsession with The Beatles to create ‘odd pop’ with killer choruses.

EDDY is an emerging singer songwriter with a knack for writing gorgeous, catchy tracks that follow you around for days after listening to them. Born and raised in a small town in Herefordshire, she has ventured to Bristol to spread her musical wings and serenade the city. EDDY is an artist that thrives on pushing the boundaries of genre, blending elements or pop, folk and country with unique beats and melodies that have garnered her attention from Radio 1, Radio 6 and BBC Introducing where she is regularly played and supported.

Island is an indie-folk project comprised of Chaz Thorogood and Giles Nuttall - two friends and musicians who grow up by the sea in south Devon and have come together to create honest music they love. Built around melodic guitar and raw vocals, it is music for being outdoors, for self-reflection and growth, for travelling and returning home - all recorded off-grid in a houseboat on the River Avon. Chaz and Giles reached Heron Island via two different routes. Chaz has spent the last decade successfully releasing music under his solo project (Chaz Thorogood) whilst also working as a touring session musician. At the same time, Giles moved to the Swiss Alps and forged a path across the mountains in apres ski bands, whilst writing with and recording for up-and-coming artists in Switzerland. All paths lead home and the pair felt the time was right to bring together their years of experience and passion for authentic music, and to create something which truly reflected them. Heron Island is just that.