Critically acclaimed and loved by audiences across North America and the UK, Canadian born, Oxford-dwelling Miriam Jones will open the Connected Arts Festival in 2015. Jones brings her songs described as a mixture of folk-pop stylings and classic songwriting redolent of the greats of early 70s southern California with their intimate, soulful and unvarnished performances. Her music is firmly in the Bonnie Raitt and Joan Osborne class of tough but soulful exponents of North American roots music and it will be a night to treasure.