SESSIONS58 RISE Special - Edition 2

Rosie Holloway + Valentina Keys + Hollie Cassar + Ilana Lorraine

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Last Show: Saturday 24 th June 2023

PizzaExpress Live (Holborn)

Ilana Lorraine established Sessions58 11 years ago with Nate James as a platform for emerging artists to perform and connect their own original music. Since lockdown, Ilana took it one step further to take the artists who have organically formed ”Collective” to various venues across London and now even over seas to widen the audience and build their reach. In this new partnership with PizzaExpress Live, Ilana will be curating evenings where she brings 4 artists to join her under the spotlight.

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Ilana Lorraine

Ilana Lorraine has become known as more than a community leader than just producer, bringing people together through her events, stages and her own music too.

Ilana’s music is hauntingly beautiful. It stirs the soul, the mind, and plucks ever so gently at the heartstrings. Her transformative lyrics and soulful voice awaken the senses, provide hope and evoke courage.

Her internal voice optimistic and determined to keep love alive, a prayer to encourage hope, an inner mantra to awaken her heart, and a calling to have self-love and find strength.

Ilana’s singing voice and songs became a mantra and call out to passersby as she sang overlooking a lake in her lockdown initiative “The Fairytale” to keep music alive and bring serenity to the public in the Summer of 2020. It bloomed into a safe haven for the local community in  London infamous Hampstead Heath and got imprinted and recorded in history when it got written as a full chapter in the book The Heath, written by The Beatles Biographer Hunter Davis and published last year.

Hollie Cassar

Malta born multi-instrumentalist Hollie Cassar whose performance credits include West End shows such as Cabaret, West Side Story & Crazy For you and now Music Director for The Choir of Man, showcases a selection of her own originals - songs that have the mastery of her Royal Academy of Music training where she combines old-school, catchy melodies with honest lyrics,  sometimes compared to Carole King or Regina Spektor but with touch of her own unique quirkiness.

Rosie Holloway

Rosie, with her mesmerising vocals and captivating stage presence, enchants listeners with her heartfelt lyrics and soul-stirring melodies from the area she grew up in and beyond. As a gifted singer-songwriter, she has the remarkable ability to tell stories through her music, connecting with listeners on a deep and emotional level, whilst leaving them with a laugh at the end of the day.

Valentina Keys

Soviet-born, British-raised Valentina Keys fuses her Eastern European routes with Western to create a unique musical blend of Russian, Ukrainian, Latin, jazz, blues and soul. Hauntingly James Bondesque music that tags at your heartstrings and cinematic songs that take you on a journey.