BOSFest regulars the Soft Shell Crabs are back to open the festival.

Led by Bankside Open spaces Trust’s Chair Tim Wood, The Crabs bring a mix of funky favourites and inventive new tunes to our red Cross Garden stage.

Moondusty aka Cess aka Daniel Orcese, is a London-based singer-songwriter blessed with decades-long experience of making magical music.  He’s toured with Pete Doherty, made an album with critically acclaimed Jazz pianist Greg Foat and has contributed backing vocals for a Paul Weller track.
His favourite influences include: Pink label early Island Records, Ronnie Lane and The Band to name but a few.
https://moondusty.bandcamp.com/

Canterbury based troubadour Liam has enjoyed significant success with his previous band Syd Arthur – but has now returned with a powerful set of new songs.
An exceptionally gifted guitar player and performer his work evokes the Canterbury greats such as the soft machine and Caravan but with a steely 21st century vision.

Omam Dawn is a singer/songwriter who grew up on the South Coast. She transports listeners into ethereal dreamscapes of blind birds, speaking dolphins, fishermen and darker corners of cemeteries and unrequited love. Inspired by the sea and her childhood affinity with animals, her songs evoke a gentle and natural essence of what it means to be human.
https://omamdawn.bandcamp.com/

London-based Dubliner Louis Brennan is a singer-songwriter in the folk tradition. His folk however aren’t the field hands and travelling minstrels of yore but the repressed middle managers and ennui-ridden urbanites of late-stage capitalism. They populate tales of bad sex, half-drunk commutes and interpersonal claustrophobia delivered in Brennan’s cracked baritone, at times embarrassingly intimate, at times spuriously broad, peppered with pitch-black humour.
https://www.louisbrennanmusic.com/

Pearl Fish is an emerging songwriter based itinerantly on the UK waterways. Her superbly written, beautifully delivered songs have already gathered a buzz. 
Intimate and warm, her sound shifts with a transient scape of musicians fronted by Pearl’s “sometimes spoken and sometimes soaring” vocals and lyrics fuelled by “murmurings of melancholia, hope and wit”.
https://www.facebook.com/pearlfishhh/

Gabriel Moreno brings an immersive show of passionate resistance with perfectly crafted folk songs delivered with intensity and precision.
Accompanied by his nylon string guitar he performs with charisma and panache. 
Described as the Gibraltarian Leonard Cohen by the UK Music press, Moreno travels the country sharing stories about the Bohemia and a poetical view of England and the future. 
https://www.gabrielmoreno.co.uk/