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The first names have been confirmed for next year's In It Together Festival....

A major music festival returns to Dorset this weekend. Here are all the stage times for Jurassic Fields 2023.

A major music festival returns to Dorset this weekend. Here are all the stage times for Jurassic Fields 2023.

Wrexham is the place to be this spring!...

Kelly Lee Owens' album Inner Song wins the top award at the Welsh Music Prize.

Techno artist says being ‘recognised by your country is the greatest honour’, after winning prize for the year’s best Welsh album

University teams up with major music festival to help showcase Welsh talent to the world Wrexham Glyndwr University has teamed up with a major music festival to help showcase Welsh talent to the world. The university’s Plas Coch campus welcomed acts to film performances for FOCUS Wales as part of the BBC coverage of the pan-Wales multi-platform Gŵyl 2021 virtual event. Steff Owens, Programme Leader – Sound Technology, recorded performances at the university’s TV studios, with everyone...

WREXHAM Glyndwr University has teamed up with a major music festival to help showcase Welsh talent to the world. The university’s Plas Coch campus welcomed acts to film performances for FOCUS Wales as part of the BBC coverage of the pan-Wales multi-platform Gŵyl 2021 virtual event. Steff Owens, Programme Leader – Sound Technology, recorded performances at the university’s TV studios, with everyone observing COVID 19 procedures. Hip hop artist Dani Rain, also the drummer with Nort...

Cymru Am Byth: 18 Essential Welsh Albums In honour of St. Davids Day... Today - March 1st - is St. Davids Day, a celebration of Welsh identity. The strange thing is, though, were no closer to defining Welshness than we were 100 years ago - its a country in flux, code-switching and shape-shifting on an hourly basis. Musically, however, we feel certain in saying that Welsh music - indeed, Welsh culture as a whole - has rarely been so strong, with new generations utilising th...

Michael & Peter Formanek – Dyads (Out Of Your Head): “Michael and Peter Formanek started making music and improvising together before Peter started school. Regular visits to their home from friends and colleagues like Tim Berne, Jim Black, Marty Ehrlich and many others only served to normalize this as being an essential part of human interaction. During much of their time living in Baltimore and as Peter began to study music formally (first on guitar then on saxophones and woodwinds), it w...