Cailee Frances

Melly Frances & The Distilled Spirit is a California based Americanan blues, rock and soul band formed in 2012 by vocalist and songwriter Melly Frances. They unveiled their first studio album cleverly titled "The Album" in July 2014 as un-signed artists independent from a record label. Melly Frances and the Distilled Spirit a group built around singer/songwriter Melanie Sponselee (AKA Melly Frances) and her backing band.

Frances lives in New York, but she doesn't really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but she's not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren't really speaking anymore. Frances throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles. Frances wants so much more than she has but lives her life with unaccountable joy and lightness.

Frances (Greta Gerwig) lives in New York, but she doesn't really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but shes not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren't really speaking anymore. Frances throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles. Frances wants so much more than she has but lives her life with unaccountable joy and lightness…

Frances Barber, who starred in the first Pet Shop Boys musical Closer to Heaven almost two decades ago, can be seen in a new solo show by the musical duo beginning August 5 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

The everyday is transfigured in this intimate collection of chamber music and songs by leading young Scottish composer Martin Suckling – settings for mezzo-soprano and piano of five magical, moonlit poems by Michael Donaghy and a string quintet written in collaboration with the poet Frances Leviston, whose readings of her own texts frame the four movements of a piece which pays dual homage to Schubert and to Emily Dickinson.