BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room feature will return again this year, featuring live and intimate performances from sixteen artists during February.
Every Monday through Thursday between 3rd and 27th February on Vernon Kay’s mid-morning show, renowned artists will perform at London’s BBC Maida Vale Studios, with accompaniment from The BBC Concert Orchestra.
It will include the 100th performance on Thursday 27th February. Friday’s show each week will feature highlights from that week’s performances.
The line up is as follows:
- Mon 3 February – Coldplay, performing a cover by The Proclaimers
- Tue 4 February – Kim Wilde, performing a Crowded House cover
- Wed 5 February: Tom Grennan, performing a Harry Nilsson cover
- Thu 6 February: Mica Paris, performing a Bob Marley cover for Piano Room on what would have been Bob Marley’s 80th birthday
- Mon 10 February: Myles Smith, performing a Green Day cover
- Tues 11 February: Kiefer Sutherland, performing a Phil Collins cover
- Wed 12 February: Celeste, performing a Labi Siffre cover
- Thu 13 February: 10cc’s Graham Gouldman is reuniting specially for this Piano Room with fellow band co-founder Kevin Godley in the 50th anniversary year of their seminal hit, I’m Not in Love, and performing a cover by The Everly Brothers.
- Mon 17 February: Natasha Bedingfield, performing an Oasis cover
- Tue 18 February: Deacon Blue, performing a Beyoncé cover
- Wed 19 February: Chesney Hawkes, cover to be announced
- Thu 20 February: Kate Hudson, cover to be announced
- Mon 24 February: Franz Ferdinand, performing a Britney Spears cover
- Tue 25 February: Elkie Brooks, performing a Rag N Bone cover on her 80th birthday
- Wed 26 February: Teddy Swims, performing a Nat King Cole cover
- Thu 27 February: Gary Barlow, performing a Sam Fender cover for The 100th Piano Room
BBC Radio 2 (may be UK only)
