Ruth Lyon: Open Fund for Music Creators
Recording & releasing second EP with producer John Parish
Ruth is an artist and disability activist, who incorporates lo-fi beats, hypnotic keys and cutting vocal delivery to explore being an outsider with naked, visceral honesty. Inspired by the likes of Regina Spektor and Fiona Apple, Ruth’s songs are instilled with deep melancholy but delivered with self-knowing attitude. Launching herself as a solo artist over lock-down, Ruth has already achieved a lot. She was Sage Gateshead Artist-in-Residence 2020, BBC Introducing North-East “hot tips” 2021, PRS Women Make Music awardee and SXSW official artist in 2022 at the British Music Embassy.
Her debut EP received play from Radio 6, Radio 1 and almost constant rotation on BBC Introducing and as well as championed by Spotify Editorial with playlisting on Fresh Find, Fresh finds: Pop, and SALT. As a wheelchair user, Ruth advocates on behalf of charities and organisations. She is an artist ambassador for Attitude Is Everything, a national charity that improves deaf and disabled people’s access to live music and she is an ambassador for Featured Artist Coalition-a non-profit trade body that advocates on behalf of artists, and lobbies governments both domestically and abroad, representing a voice of diversity and inclusion as the industry re-builds itself. Following her explorative debut EP, Ruth has found her identity with this exciting new record – performing with local guest musicians at J&J Studios in Bristol and working with acclaimed producer John Parish (Aldous Harding, PJ Harvey), Ruth will release and tour her most personal and thought-provoking piece of work to date.
T