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Mick’s Picks – Book and CD reviews

JUNE 2025 MICK’S QUICKS ► Wonderful Sámi singer and artist Sara Ajnnak and stunning improvisational folk duo The Ciderhouse Rebellion (cracking fiddler Adam Summerhayes and highly inventive accordionist Murray Grainger) are just in the middle of a year-long musical journey, ‘Landscape of the Spirits’, which invites listeners to delve into Sámi culture and language combined…

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. 

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,…

Welsh wizards Alaw bring the house down at Festival benefit night

ALAW, MORFA, MANSANT: Tredegar House Folk Festival Benefit Night, Newport Folk Club, Fugitives Sports Club, Rogerstone Newport Folk Club played welcoming hosts to a jam-packed, memorable and celebratory  night, just bubbling and brimming over with feel-good, joyous and utterly ingenious music from Wales and further beyond. The evening proudly advertised Tredegar House Folk Festival, which…

Oliver, Jamie and Dylan set to perform in Royal Albert Hall; UK and Euro tour dates ready

Spectacular Welsh trio Alaw have been invited to play at London’s Royal Albert Hall as part the BBC Proms on August 3, 2018. They join a mouth-watering line-up, including Scottish Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis, Irish musician Jarlath Henderson, Sam Lee, The Unthanks, the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Stephen Bell. The trio has been playing together since 2013,…