TAM Featured Artist · Everywhere At Once 2026
IRISCraig
Singer · Songwriter · Pianist · London
Dana Gillespie
Blues Legend · British Music Icon
Mentor in Residence · TAM
She plays the piano like she’s telling you something important — something she couldn’t say any other way. That is the only kind of playing that matters.
Biography
The music that comes from
telling the truth.
Iris Craig is a 14-year-old singer-songwriter based in London. She writes on piano and guitar with a particular gift for emotional and soulful piano ballads. Her writing has been described as having a “depth far beyond her years” — due to her storytelling and profound, relatable lyrics.
She performs regularly at open mics and events across London, and her tracks reflect a truthful and heartfelt sound. She has a rich and unique tone to her voice and “delivers vocals with confidence” with an “ability to handle contrast with ease”.
She is part of the first cohort of TAM Fellows on the TOM Open Music Academy programme — TAM’s artist development programme for the next generation. Her Mentor in Residence is Dana Gillespie: British blues artist, recording since 1964, one of the most vital musical voices this country has produced. Something has already come out of those sessions that the world is not yet ready to hear.
Her catalogue is already larger than most artists twice her age. At fourteen, she is not in the early stages of something. She is already in the middle of it.
On 31 May 2026 she takes the stage with Dana Gillespie at Transmission to Everywhere At Once — the first time the world will see what this mentorship has made possible. On 26 June she performs at Everywhere At Once, powered by The National Lottery. On 28 June, at the Temple of Art & Music itself.
On Being Neurodivergent
Iris is neurodivergent and draws directly from those experiences in her songwriting. It is the source of the depth, the honesty and the precision that makes her writing unusual for any age.
The neurodivergent mind often processes emotion at a frequency others can’t access. In Iris’s case, she has found a way to translate that frequency into songs her peers recognise immediately. The music that felt most private turns out to be the most universal.
Press · Tune Fountain
The 1966 Connection
What the Music Is
“The music that comes
from inside.”
The Piano
Found, not constructed
She plays until the feeling finds its shape — and then she follows it. The ballads that result are not constructed. They are found.
The Lyrics
Profound and relatable
Iris writes songs that are deeply specific and immediately universal. That is the quality that makes people say: how did she know?
The Voice
Beyond the notes
A rich and unique tone — the kind that communicates something beyond the notes. The only question left is what she’s saying.
The Experience
Private becomes universal
Her neurodivergent experience creates music with emotional frequency that generates immediate recognition. The most private experiences become the most shared ones.
Unreleased Demo
“Dreams”
Demo · Not yet released
A soulful piano ballad about self-doubt and facing the harsh realities of the world — looking into the future, ambitions, love and losing hope. Pretty much acoustic, because Iris loves performing live.
Written and recorded on piano at home; vocals captured in a studio. She wrote this song when she was at her lowest, doubting herself and losing faith in her future.
Dreams is for anyone who has ever felt like they’re not enough.
This is a demo — not yet mixed or fully produced. Iris plans to add more instrumentation and release it properly when it’s ready. What you’re hearing is the song at its most honest: piano at home, vocals in a studio, nothing hidden.
Synesthetic Portrait
What the song looks like
from the inside.
Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon where one sense automatically triggers another. For roughly 1 in 23 people, music is not only heard — it is seen, tasted, felt and spatially mapped.
Iris is neurodivergent. Her songwriting draws from heightened sensory experience. The visualisation below is driven live by the audio — 13 wave sources at the golden angle create interference patterns mapped from frequency bands in the song.
Mirror-Touch · Spatial Sequence
Holonomic Architecture
The whole
encoded in
every part.
Karl Pribram’s holonomic brain theory proposes that memory and perception are distributed across neural fields as wave interference patterns — the same principle that encodes a hologram, where every fragment contains the whole image.
TAM operates by this same logic. Every artist, every performance, every record is a frequency that carries the whole. Iris Craig at fourteen is not a fragment of something larger. She is the full signal — already complete, already resonant.
The canvas shows 13 wave sources (Fibonacci number) positioned at the golden angle — 137.5° — creating interference patterns that encode the TAM symbol at their convergence point.
TAM Pathway
Three Shows.
One Destination. The Festival.
Chapter One · Complete
Ignition
Sunday 3 May 2026 · Free
Iris’s first TOM showcase at TAM. The journey to Everywhere At Once begins.
Chapter Two · Coming
Transmission
Sunday 31 May 2026 · Free
The pre-festival headline showcase. Five full sets. The signal sent 26 days before the national festival weekend.
Chapter Three · The Destination
Convergence
Sunday 28 June 2026 · 1PM–7:30PM
Everywhere At Once powered by The National Lottery at TAM. Dana Gillespie introduces Iris. She will be at that piano, on that stage.
Mentored by Dana Gillespie · Mentor in Residence
Temple of Art & Music, Elephant & Castle, London
Upcoming Live Dates
On stage &
in your city.
Photo: Rod Main Photography · Elizabeth G Photography
Follow the journey
Stream her music · Follow her story · 28 June 2026
Share her world
The official poster.
Share this with one person who needs to hear her music. Not broadcast. One person.
How to share
When you share this world
You are not broadcasting. You are bringing one person into the vortex. Every deep listen you generate earns you Discovery Attribution in the TAM chart system.
The Microverse Expands
What is coming to your world.
A multiverse is never complete. Every version of Iris that exists — the one at the piano at midnight, the one on stage, the one still becoming — lives here. What you find today is not what you will find tomorrow. That is not a promise. That is the nature of infinite worlds.
How this world works
You are inside the vortex.
A multiverse is a system of worlds that has no edges. This is Iris’s. Not a page you visit once and leave. A world you enter, move through, and find yourself returning to — because it keeps changing.
Think of a black hole. It doesn’t chase anything. It has so much gravity at its centre that everything nearby gets pulled toward it — not by force, but by the weight of what it contains. The more honest and specific the music, the stronger the pull.
Iris wrote Dreams at her lowest. That specificity is the gravity. When someone hears it and thinks she wrote that about me — that is the vortex working. Not a listener. A person who has been found.
The most specific thing you can say is also the most universal. Not despite the detail — because of it.
A multiverse is never complete. Every version of Iris that exists lives here. What you find today is not what you will find tomorrow.
You do not have a fanbase. You have a field. And the field keeps expanding as long as you keep being honest at the centre of it.
The pull was always there. It lives in the music.
We are just building the universe around it.
This world keeps growing
Come back when you're ready.
Something will have changed.
The microverse is not a page you visit once. It is a world that expands as Iris does. Each drop adds a room. Each return reveals something new. Bookmark it. Share it. Bring someone with you.