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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 observing COVID 19 procedures. Hip hop artist Dani Rain, also the drummer with North Wales pop punk...

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 North Wales pop punk outfit Neck Deep, and Cardiff-born grime MC Benji Wild performed at PGW’s TV stud...

Cymru Am Byth: 18 Essential Welsh Albums In honour of St. David's Day... Today - March 1st - is St. David's Day, a celebration of Welsh identity. The strange thing is, though, we're no closer to defining 'Welshness' than we were 100 years ago - it's 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 the tools at their disposal to craft magnificent new aural shapes. Clash writers have picked out...

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 was just part of daily life to have musicians come by to play, rehearse, or just hang out. This event...