I'm Mera Royle, a musician from Isle of Man currently studying in Newcastle. Music has been a part of my life for many years now and in April 2018, I was awarded the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Musician prize. As part of the prize, I was invited to play at Cambridge, Cropredy and Towersey Folk Festivals.

I love folk and Celtic music and it’s been great for me to grow up on the Isle of Man where the culture and Celtic roots are very strong. I have two EPs out, ‘Woven’ and ‘The Ballaglass set’ which can be found on Spotify, band camp and iTunes. CD copies are also available and can be purchased by sending me a message. I have featured on BBC Radio 4 “Notes from a Musical Island” in July 2018. I also featured on Mark Radcliffe’s BBC Radio 2 Folk Show last year, where I had an interview with him and he played two of my tracks on the show. 

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I am currently studying music at Newcastle University, and I’m really loving my time there. Newcastle has a great music scene which is why I was really drawn to it. I have been involved with several creative projects as a composer, including 'The Lost Wife' by by Dark Avenue Film Productions. For this I was awarded the Best Composer prize at Phoenix Short Film Festival and Best Score at Beyond the Curve Film Festival. I have also written the music to 'Cornaa', a landscape film in collaboration with Brook Wassall, which was nominated for a Celtic Media Festival award in 2020. I also had a lot of fun last summer arranging my own version of Tubular Bells by Mark Oldfield, which I have featured on my 'Woven' EP. 

 

 

 

I love folk and Celtic music and it’s been great for me to grow up on the Isle of Man where the culture and Celtic roots are very strong. It is full of many inspirations and there are lots of opportunities here for young people to take part in concerts and collaborative projects and it’s allowed me to grow into the musician I am today.

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