"I've never really had any singing lessons, I've just always enjoyed singing since I used to dance around to Abba when I was six! I was in the school choir, but didn't really join a band until I was 23 and discovered that I loved gigging.

Despite this, I'm always nervous before I go on stage. I don't really drink because I'm usually driving, but sometimes I'll have a Jack Daniels. I always think my voice is really wobbling all over the place until I'm about two songs in and it gets better.

I'm not singing with a band at the moment, unfortunately, but I'd love to. My friend Steve Rickard is going to play guitar for me tonight because I don't play an instrument, but I'd love to find a band to sing with again.

The kind of music I do varies, though it's mainly acoustic, folky, a bit rocky. I usually do all covers, like songs by Fleetwoood Mac, Joni Mitchell, Nora Jones and an a capella version of an Irish folk song. I also do a bit of jazz stuff too.

Unfortunately, there aren't that many venues to gig at round here. You're stuck to open mike nights most of the time. The White House near Rhuallt do an open mike night every other Thursday and there are loads of different musicians there - people get up and sing and jam, it's great.

So live events like this at the Hendre are fantastic to give the opportunity to all kinds of performers to listen to and sing with people you don't normally meet up with.

It's also a chance for people to hear different styles of music. Hopefully, they'll enjoy a performer they wouldn't have seen before and when they see those artists advertised in the future they'll go along and support them.

It's especially great when you go to an event and see children watching and suddenly they're like, 'wow, they're really playing instruments', because they're usually at home watching MTV. They never get a chance to interact with real musicians, and hopefully it will inspire them to go home and ask for lessons."