Episode 6 - Jasmine Watkiss

Episode 6 explores the musical journey of Violinist and Ukulele player, Jasmine Watkiss. As half of the Americana folk duo, Roswell, Jasmine discusses her love/hate relationship with music. As the child of musician parents, Jasmine felt that music was the vehicle to a private school scholarship rather than something to be enjoyed, and as a result suffered extreme performance anxiety due to the pressure of consistently needing to pass exams and auditions to maintain the scholarship. Further to that, the atmosphere at private school wasn't a supportive one, where her violin teacher would regularly rubbish her performances and laugh at her.

She discovered that bands and orchestras were where her true passion lay and the social side of music has kept her love of it alive, despite not entering into it as a full time career. Jasmine also talks about how she has coped with extreme anxiety over the years with performing and how the pandemic affected her, but with a supportive singing teacher and therapy sessions, plus conversations with her fellow band mate, she has overcome a lot of this and now performs regularly all over the UK.

Intro/Outro music: "Battle" by Ian Prowse

Middle track: "What I Know Now" - Roswell

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