BRIT award nominee Beth Rowley to play Birmingham Glee Club

The star will feature at the city's Glee Club on Wednesday.

Rowley is known for her rich, soulful voice and love of blues and gospel. Following the huge success of her Top 10 album Little Dreamer, for which she was nominated for a BRIT, she's now back.

Performing a handful of sell-out shows, Rowley said: "It's taking time to finish my new album, but that's okay. I've had the opportunity to explore what I want to record and it's on its way. I've been revisiting old blues and gospel and looking at ways to include my musical influences…Captain Beefheart, Emmylou Harris, Ron Sexsmith and Mahalia Jackson."

The period since Little Dreamer has also seen the singer's film debut with the release of Oscar-nominated Brit flick An Education, starring Carey Mulligan and directed by Danish director Lone Scherfig. Rowley's cameo role as the nightclub singer received rave reviews, as did her theme song You Got Me Wrapped Around Your Little Finger, which was written with collaborator Ben Castle.

Beth has recently been on a year-long tour with Jools Holland which has seen her both performing as part of Jools' ensemble and as opening act on some of his key dates.

Rowley's music was influenced by her parents' peripatetic life. Before relocating to their native Bristol in 1982, the Rowley family had spent much of the 70s in Peru's shanty towns carrying out the Lord's work.

"They were missionaries working in churches in Lima, Machu Picchu and Cuzco, living in shacks they shared with chickens and precious little electricity," she says. "It was very basic.

"My father was a preacher in Baptist churches, while my mother promoted healthcare at a succession of Women's Institutes.

"They say they had an amazing time; I've seen the photographs, and it really does look incredible. It's funny to think of my parents having this terrifically exotic life before I was born

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