AT the weekend she was helping out fellow ex-Rocking Horser, Fiona Bevan, with the release of her latest album.

But Juliana Meyer has a lot to shout about herself.

The former Colchester schoolgirl, who recently won Best Female at this year’s Exposure Music Awards East, was nominated in three of the award categories at the recent National Exposure Music Awards.

Juliana didn’t win any prizes she was nominated for, but she did get the honour of playing at the ceremony which took place in Gloucester.

Juliana said: “The awards went well. I unfortunately didn’t win any, but my performance seemed to be very well received by the audience. It was an honour to perform at the awards, especially as I was the only female performing, across 11 acts.”

Closer to home, Juliana has made it through to the regional final of the Live and Unsigned music competition, which takes place at the Ipswich Corn Exchange this Saturday at 8.30pm.

She added: “I am looking forward to performing at the Ipswich Corn Exchange. Tickets have been selling fast through my website and I’ve had to get more in from the organisers.

“It should be a really fun night and I have prepared an unusual arrangement of one of my songs exclusively for that night which I hope the audience will enjoy.”

Along with Fiona, Magnus Williams and Andy Fell, Rocking Horse started making music in Colchester in 1998, releasing their debut album, the Siren, in 2002, followed by the Confession EP in 2003.

Now a solo artist, Juliana's Symphonic Acoustic Pop, which has generated an online buzz, has been hitting top chart positions on many of the online social networking sites.

Attracting an ever growing army of fans, Juliana is looking forward to recording the follow-up album to her debut Holding Up the Sky, which was chosen by Music-New.com as one of the best albums of 2008, placed between Oasis and Take That.

For more information www.julianameyer.com