An Evening with Hen Hoose Collective

Hen Hoose Collective presents music from award-winning female and non-binary artists, including Emma Pollock, Frances McKee, Inge Thomson, Amandah Wilkinson, Shears, Susan Bear, Ray Aggs and Tamara Schlesinger. 

Scottish musician Tamara Schlesinger formed songwriting collective and music production house Hen Hoose in 2020 as a response to inequality within the music industry. Hen Hoose unites a rich and diverse array of wonderfully talented, award-winning female and non-binary artists, writers and producers collaborating on the creation of exciting new music across multiple genres.

Based across the UK and Europe, members have individually created syncs for Hollywood films, Netflix shows, global TV adverts and have written for theatre productions, alongside highly successful careers as artists. 

Hen Hoose has been recognised by The Big Issue for their gender equality work and was named as one of their Cultural Changemakers in 2022. Additional recognition by the John Lennon Foundation in 2022, saw the organisation receive funding, which, for the first time, enabled them to support artists beyond Scotland. Further support from PRS for Music in 2023 allowed the organisation to offer mentoring to artists across the UK.

Hen Hoose’s inaugural release, the Scottish Album of the Year Award-nominated album Equaliser, written remotely during lockdown, was released in 2021.

Full artist line-up: 

• Amandah Wilkinson (Operator Please, Bossy Love) 
• Shears 
• Tamara Schlesinger (MALKA) 
• Emma Pollock (The Delgados)
• Frances McKee (The Vaselines)
• Sarah Hayes (Admiral Fallow) 
• Susan Bear (FKA Good Dog)
• Jill Lorean
• Ray Aggs (Trash Kit, Shopping and Sacred Paws)
• Cariss Crosbie 
• Inge Thomson (Karine Polwart Trio)
• Lauren Macdonald

Presented by The Queen's Hall