The Mixtape

Leesa Tilley is a musical polymath who launched and managed the first four years of the Ragamuffin Music Festival as a promoter. Over the years, she has organised and presented numerous events, worked as an audio engineer and with iconic artists such as Fleetwood Mac, The Who, Bryan Ferry, Joan Armatrading, David Byrne, Crosby Stills & Nash, Jackson Brown, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, The Beach Boys, Backstreet Boys, Slash, and Whitney Houston, to name just a few. Maggie Tweedie invited Tilley onto the RNZ Mixtape to select songs that reflect her music career.

Born in the Santa Fe desert, New Mexico, and then raised in the mountains of southern New Zealand, Holly Arrowsmith’s Americana-tinged folk & country sound has been awarded APRA's 'Best country song' award twice. Her latest album Blue Dreams has been critically acclaimed. Holly is both poet and storyteller. She has performed alongside Sixto Rodriguez, C.W Stoneking, Tami Neilson, Jessica Pratt, Nadia Reid, Marlon Williams and Tiny Ruins.