Dave Haslam’s Roots Unearthed series continues on Tuesday October 13 at Lefel 3 in St David’s Hall, Cardiff with outstanding guitarist Martin Simpson and Don Flemons, banjo player with the award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops. The concert starts at 8pm. The Roots Unearthed programme promises a mouth-watering winter list, with Cylchcanu2/ Songchain2 bringing together Kate Ronconi, Beth Williams Jones, Stacey Blythe, Christine Cooper,…

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Calan manager Huw Williams has filed a report to the Musicians’ Union over the treatment handed out by US immigration authorities when two musicians of the award-winning band were refused entry over a passport breakdown at the US embassy in London, were jailed for one night and deported. The passports belonging to piper, pibgorn player…

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Harmonica tutor Aidan Sheehan is running six Christmas Harmonica workshops which will take place at Whitchurch Rugby Sports and Social Club in Cardiff. Designed as a fun, user-friendly course for intermediate players, Aidan will teach the students how to perform traditional festive favourites on a ten-holed diatonic harmonica – which is not supplied. The hour-long…

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The Glasbury, Powys-based Village Quire and actor Phil Smith bring their new show Back To The Garden to The Valley Folk Club at The Ivy Bush Hotel, Pontardawe on Friday October 16 (8pm), telling the story of life and hope in the trenches of battle-ravaged France during the Great War from the letters of Corporal William Bevan,…

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Following the success of SongChain in 2014, Cylchcanu2/SongChain2 brings together some of the finest talent in the Welsh scene: Kate Ronconi, Beth Williams Jones, Stacey Blythe, Christine Cooper, Ceri Owen-Jones, Gareth Bonello, Jamie Smith and Patrick Rimes for an exciting evening of new collaborations and unique arrangements of both traditional and contemporary Welsh tunes and…

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