FolkWales Online Magazine

Announcement

Sorry, folks – but owing to circumstances beyond my control, FolkWales Online Magazine and the All-Wales Listings Pages will no longer be developed. However, CD reviews (Mick’s Picks) is very much alive and will still carry on – please continue to send your albums to me. 

Mick’s Picks – Book and CD reviews

APRIL 2025 CHRISTINA ALDEN & ALEX PATTERSON Safe Travels Folk Cellar Records: no catalogue number www.christinaaldenandalexpatterson.com Folk musicians, singers and songwriters Christina and Alex will release this utterly delightful album soon on May 9, 2025; Safe Travels follows on four years after their highly impressive Hunter debut in 2021. Their wonderfully unique sound evokes the…

Other Voices Cardigan announces first wave of artists

Other Voices Cardigan / Lleisiau Eraill Aberteifi is coming to Cardigan – and it has revealed the first wave of live performers set to take to the festival’s stages from October 26-28. The celebrated harp-and-violin duo Catrin Finch and Aoife Ní Bhriain, Irish singer-songwriter Susan O’Neill, Machynlleth-born triple harpist Cerys Hafana, Italian alt-pop act Sans…

VRï, Dafydd triumph in the Wales Folk Awards celebration

by Mick Tems The fiddles-and-cello chamber-folk trio VRï and veteran singer, songwriter and Welsh language campaigner Dafydd Iwan shared two accolades at the prestigious Wales Folk Awards, held at the Hoddinott Hall in the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay on Thursday, April 20. Dafydd wrote the most remarkable ‘sleeper’ song in the galaxy. He composed…

Review: Kate, John and Dafydd join the party for Dewi Sant

It’s a national yearly celebration; Gŵyl Dydd Dewi Sant, Wednesday, March 1, and impressive Aberystwyth trio Three Legg’d Mare absolutely delighted and amazed the Llantrisant Folk Club audience with their no-punches-pulled winning show. The band consists of powerful-voiced singer Kate Saunders, who plays Appalachian mountain dulcimer, guitar and Shruti, Rhondda-born singer Jon Davies (concertina, bouzouki,…