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Author: Micktems

Mick’s Picks – Book and CD reviews

OCTOBER 2024 ERIC BIBB  In The Real World Repute Records SPCD/LP1487 www.ericbibb.com Legendary blues troubadour Eric Bibb’s glittering career spans an amazing five decades, and his musical life is just overflowing with an impressive catalogue over 40 albums, three Grammy nominations, a multitude of Blues Foundation awards and countless more accolades. On the successful cusp…

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. 

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,…

Y Gwythienne: Ceri connects with many forgotten tunes of his old home city

Musician and Welsh music visionary Ceri Rhys Matthews lives with his golden-voiced wife Julie Murphy many miles away in the West Wales village of Pencader, Carmarthenshire (writes Mick Tems.) Nowadays, he is preoccupied with his music tutoring, his Yscolan workshops in Pembrokeshire and The Gallery arts centre in High Street, Swansea, and both he and…