Beth Roberts is a songwriter, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and producer based in Bristol, UK. Her magnetic voice hints at ancient folksongs & sacred madrigals as she soars over intricate banjo & guitar patterns picked out in unusual modes. There’s a hypnotic intimacy in her performances, drawing listeners into communion with the quiet parts of themselves. Her upcoming debut solo album explores themes of post-religious identity, grief, disassociation & embodiment, creativity & reclamation, death, control, uncertainty, acceptance and renewal.
In 2025, she received Arts Council England’s Develop Your Creative Practice Grant, with which she is receiving mentoring in creative production and artistic identity from This Is The Kit, Rowan Rheingans and Ben Osborn.
Recent solo gigs include tour support for Ye Vagabonds (Bristol Beacon, Brighton Komedia & The Gate, Cardiff); she’s also opened for Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, Fran & Flora, Rachel Sermanni, The Magic Lantern and Haiku Salut.
She co-writes with Ben Osborn & Malo Moray (Germany) in experimental project Trialogue, and she’s recorded & performed with rising UK artists Ishmael Ensemble, Emily Isherwood, Waldo’s Gift, Fritillaries and Âellin. Her poetry & playing featured in From The Coop, a film created by Tamsin Elliott to document their shared household during lockdown.
She is co-director of Cuculi Records, enabling independent emerging artists to share their music on their own terms. She curates the long-running Cuculi Presents gig series around Bristol, creating listening spaces for quiet new music that falls between genre gaps. She received the PRS Early Career Promoter Fund in 2024 to develop the sustainability and inclusivity of these gigs.
She is Musician-in-Residence at University Hospitals Bristol & Weston, bringing songs from different eras directly onto wards – primarily Care of the Elderly, trauma & orthopaedics and stroke patients. As part of the NHS 75th birthday celebrations, she co-composed a piece of audio art called ‘Listen In’ with Beth Calverley and Tamsin Elliott which was performed in multiple spaces.
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