Ar hyn of bryd mae'r cynnwys hwn ar gael yn Saesneg yn unig.
Ar hyn of bryd mae'r cynnwys hwn ar gael yn Saesneg yn unig.
Ar hyn of bryd mae'r cynnwys hwn ar gael yn Saesneg yn unig.
hyrwyddo a dathlu cerddoriaeth Cymru
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Tŷ Cerdd is again delighted to be working with Wales Arts International to lead the Cymru Wales presence at WOMEX 24 in Manchester. An enormous Welsh delegation features an incredibly diverse range of artists, promoters, industry and sector professionals - many of whom are being supported by a development programme of mentoring and bursaries.
We all look forward to celebrating three Welsh artists' presence on the Horizons stage (a platform for musicians from England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales): Cerys Hafana, N'famady Kouyaté and Gwenifer Raymond
The Wales delegation includes:
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Dan Bettridge
Dan Bettridge has garnered much critical acclaim with a steady flow of his own standout brand of Indie-Folk/Americana – carving a distinctive path between peers Big Thief, Ben Howard, Josiah & The Bonnevilles & Bon Iver. He appeared in Rolling Stone alongside Rosanne Cash, Darius Rucker and more as part of Bob Harris' 'All Stars'. He's also toured with Band of Horses, Jack Savoretti, performed at the famous Maida Vale Studios twice and played festivals throughout the UK, USA and Canada. Following the success of debut LP Asking For Trouble, Bettridge was awarded the prestigious PRSF Momentum funding. The resulting EP Good People. Bad Habits. received further acclaim and strong support across streaming platforms and national radio. His sophomore album is set for release in 2025 with singles on the cards for late 2024.
Dionne Bennett
Dionne Bennett is an internationally recognised vocalist, musician, and music educator with a passion for promoting Black Welsh arts and culture. She is the co-founder and director of Tân Cerdd, a Black Welsh bilingual arts organisation, and she is a vocal lecturer and coach at Hereford School of Arts and privately at Tân’s studio located at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff. As the Chair of Ladies of Rage, Dionne advocates for underrepresented voices in music, fostering partnerships with institutions such as the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Chapter Arts Venue and the Brecon Jazz Festival. Her efforts include successful takeovers of historic buildings, showcasing Black music genres and nurturing talented young Black Welsh performers.
@tancerdd23
Eve Goodman
Eve Goodman grew up in North Wales, and has had a deep relationship with singing and sounding for as long as she can remember. Eve writes and performs in both Welsh and English. Having spent much of her childhood feeling things deeply, music became a way to give voice to her inner landscape, allowing her to express herself in a reflective and honest way. “Music is like a portal to my emotions, a way of transmuting and transcribing them.” Influenced by the artistry of intuitive solo voices like Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake and Adrienne Lenker, Eve combines honest lyricism with mesmerising musical hooks and patterns. Inspired by nature and the more-than-human world, her songs connect deeply to our inner and outer landscapes. In the last few years Eve has released a solo EP, dived into a year-long study of ritual singing and improvisation, performed internationally, and featured on Bryn Terfel’s new album Sea Songs with two duets in both Welsh and Breton. Her forthcoming debut album, a collection of songs about grief, will be released on 15 November 2024.
Ffion Murray
Eve Goodman grew up in North Wales, and has had a deep relationship with singing and sounding for as long as she can remember. Eve writes and performs in both Welsh and English. Having spent much of her childhood feeling things deeply, music became a way to give voice to her inner landscape, allowing her to express herself in a reflective and honest way. “Music is like a portal to my emotions, a way of transmuting and transcribing them.” Influenced by the artistry of intuitive solo voices like Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake and Adrienne Lenker, Eve combines honest lyricism with mesmerising musical hooks and patterns. Inspired by nature and the more-than-human world, her songs connect deeply to our inner and outer landscapes. In the last few years Eve has released a solo EP, dived into a year-long study of ritual singing and improvisation, performed internationally, and featured on Bryn Terfel’s new album Sea Songs with two duets in both Welsh and Breton. Her forthcoming debut album, a collection of songs about grief, will be released on 15 November 2024.
@foxxgloveuk
Florianne Lallement
Florianne Lallement is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, dancer, actress, model and content creator based in North Wales, UK. Inspired by pop/funk/hip-hop/folk/jazz, and a life-long research in personal development, Floriane's creations empower her audience to embrace their authentic selves, infusing them with the energy to celebrate, create cherished memories, and navigate a spectrum of emotions.
Gareth Churchill
Gareth Churchill is a composer and collaborative artist based in Cardiff. As someone who identifies as disabled, his musical voice is deeply rooted in his personal, lived experiences of the mechanical interacting with the organic, and his artistic point-of-view, as the embodiment of these experiences, is both highly personal and unique. Often with the intention of amplifying marginalised voices, his work makes a feature of collaboration. In attending WOMEX he hopes to identify and connect with prospective collaborative partners for future projects.
Joanne West
Joanne is the founder of UrbanStamp, established in 2019 as a graphic design and illustration enterprise. Her vision for UrbanStamp quickly evolved into offering services in social media consultancy, marketing, and video content. She also has built a community where creatives can hone their skills, network, collaborate and access resources to establish their businesses and creative journey. Joanne's commitment to making a difference by using creativity and innovative ways to inspire and uplift others.
@Urbanstamp
Lewys Siencyn
Hailing originally from Dolgellau, Lewys is a musician and freelance creative who left Cardiff university in 2022 with a degree in music, specialising in composition and performance. He has a foot in both contemporary and classical fields, and a solid track record within Wales’s music and media industries, performing on some of the country’s most notable stages with a vast roster of artists and bands. His own project, WRKHOUSE, is a 2024 Triskel Award winner at this year’s Welsh Music Prize, and their debut EP, Out of the Blue, has received high praise from the likes of CLASH magazine, Radio 1, and BBC Introducing. His freelancing portfolio extends beyond the stage, working more recently as a project officer for Beacons Cymru and their Welsh-language project, Amlen, with a focus on graphic design, branding, and videography. He also frequently delivers songwriting workshops alongside Community Music Wales, with whom he has mentored several Cardiff-based bands at the beginning of their careers.
Louise Amery
I'm Deputy Director at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, a creative home and national arts hub for the people of Aberystwyth, Mid Wales and beyond. We’re one of Wales’s best-known venues, presenting everything from live music concerts, stand-up comedy, theatre and dance performances to visual art exhibitions and film screenings. We’re also home to the largest community engagement programme in Wales. Our spaces include a 900-seater concert hall, 300-seater theatre and a 100-seater studio. We're part of Aberystwyth University and are at the heart of the Uni campus, with stunning views overlooking beautiful Cardigan Bay and with the backdrop of the Cambrian mountains. I look after the music programme, among lots of other responsibilities, and trained in music back in the day – I also conduct a local choir and can often be found playing in orchestra pits for shows!
Mali Hâf
Mali Hâf is a Celtic-Pop artist who blends Welsh folk roots with contemporary electronic beats, fierce dance moves, and her sultry, rich voice. Drawing influence from the likes of Björk’s ethereal soundscapes and Kate Bush’s theatrical flair, alongside traditional Welsh influences, Mali Hâf crafts unique soundscapes sung in both English and Welsh. Adorned in Celtic war paint, Mali Hâf commands the stage with a captivating blend of ‘ritualism and performance art’. Mali describes being onstage as a ‘homecoming, a place of complete self-expression and shared passion’.
@malihahahaf
Martin Hoyland
Martin has been touring the world, and releasing music since touring Germany at 14 years of age in the 80’s. Playing with bands across many different genres, Martin now finds himself in the genre-defying, award-winning grwp Cymraeg 9Bach, who he formed alongside vocalist and BAFTA award winner Lisa Jên in 2005. 9Bach first played WOMEX in Copenhagen 2010, and again in Cardiff 2013, with many European festivals following. 9Bach have been working hard in collaboration with Andy Gangadeen, on creating a new upbeat, electronic sound, which is soon to be revealed, and are primarily looking for management and a live agent Martin is also a founding member of Globalheads, who put on a monthly night of Global Beats DJ’s and Live Artists in Caernarfon, North Wales, which is on tour routes from Manchester, Liverpool and Dublin in the UK. Martin is excited to discover this year’s WOMEX showcase artists.
Reb Sutton
Reb (They/Them) is a multi-disciplinary singer, producer and theatre-maker. Coming from a mixed Roma and low-income background, as well as being an invisibly disabled person, has led to them experiencing barriers to access to the arts and has pushed them to focus on fairer futures and better access for all. Starting the punk band Dirty Revolution in 2008, and taking them from playing small independent venues to multiple UK tours, international airplay, headline festival slots and a Radio 1 session at Maida Vale Studios, Reb gained notoriety within the very CIS-Male dominated Punk scene, yet never felt that they belonged. Taking on new projects (Inanna Meets the Dawn, The ProTopian, Later Records) with a focus on community and impact, they decided to use their lived experience to platform and collaborate with artists from underrepresented genders, genres and ethnicities. This included creating a residency for under-represented artists, and taking over an empty shopping centre to create an art-space centred around identity and lost Matriarchal histories. Recent activity includes work with the Roma community, mentoring young musicians from under-represented genders, writing an album about ProTopian Theory, and challenging sexism, ageism, ableism and racism within the arts.
Reem Muhammed
I’m all about supporting local talent and fueling the creative scene! As one of the co-founders of Foxy Roxies, my friends and I get to film live music sessions, throw incredible events, and collaborate with local platforms to shine a spotlight on the best homegrown artists. I also work with both Beacons and Horizons, two fantastic initiatives dedicated to championing local musicians. You can catch me weekly on Radio Cardiff, where I host my own show, and I regularly pop up on BBC Radio Wales with Adam Walton to showcase exciting new artists. I founded and developed Diff Radio, an online station that’s shaping up to be Wales's answer to Rinse FM. I’ve been working hard on crafting the station’s schedule and getting the word out through promo—really tapping into the heart of Wales’s music industry. On top of that, I’m part of the Black Action Group, where we push forward community-focused projects, and I also contribute as a board member for It’s My Shout.
@reeemohamed
Rhodri Davies
Rhodri Davies is immersed in the worlds of improvisation, musical experimentation, composition and contemporary classical performance. He plays harp, electric harp, live-electronics and builds wind, water, ice, dry ice and fire harp installations and has released seven solo albums. His regular groups include: HEN OGLEDD, Cranc, Common Objects and a duo with John Butcher. He has worked with the following artists: David Sylvian, Jenny Hval, Derek Bailey, Sofia Jernberg, Lina Lapelyte, Pat Thomas, Simon H Fell and Will Gaines. For the last 12 years Davies has been closely associated with the pioneering composer Eliane Radigue. She composed OCCAM I for Davies in 2011, the first in an ongoing series of solo and ensemble pieces for individual instrumentalists in which a performer’s personal performance technique and particular relationship to their instrument function as the compositional material of the piece. New pieces for solo harp have also been composed for him by: Christian Wolff, Carole Finer, Philip Corner, Phill Niblock, Ben Patterson, Alison Knowles, Mieko Shiomi and Yasunao Tone. In 2008 he collaborated with visual artist Gustav Metzger on Self-cancellation, a large-scale audio-visual collaboration in London and Glasgow. He is a co-organiser of the NAWR concert series in Swansea.
Richard Chitty
Bubblewrap Collective, based in Cardiff, has been releasing music from Wales since 2009. With music branching a range of genres and 15 years of releases under our belt, our sole aim is to champion and release beautiful music from Wales. Our most recent releases include Georgia Ruth's Cool Head, Carwyn Ellis's Ni A Nhw and The Gentle Good's Galargan.
Teifi Emerald / TeiFi
TeiFi – “I’m a nature geek with a flamboyant streak” – shares funny, rude, bi-lingual hip-hop and soul, and nature-inspired ethereal celtic-pop, with theatrical flair. She sings about bodies, motherhood, nature, sensuality, and Welsh-Lady Mermaids. Sometimes joined onstage by her crew from the TeifiVerse – four multi-lingual female rappers/vocalists/DJs. Her nature verses for Unwaith Rownd yr Haul (Once Round the Sun) feature Welsh language song/rap about native Welsh plants, one for each month of the year. Highlights include: performing at BBC6Music festival in 2022 as part of Ladies of Rage takeover; performing at Focus Wales 2021 & 2022, receiving outstanding audience feedback "Calling it now. TeiFi is the best discovery of the entire weekend for me. If you don't know, check her out now. Yeah, you heard me!” "TeiFi's amazing set, easily the highest highlight of Day 1 for me" Leo Grant 2022 She is currently producing her debut album.
@theteifiverse
Tomos Williams
I am a musician, composer and bandleader. I lead two permanent bands – the Welsh jazz/folk sextet Burum, and the Indo-Welsh fusion outfit Khamira, as well as other outfits. Established in 2015, Khamira is Wales's flagship international cross-cultural collaboration. We have recorded two albums (released in 2017 and 2022), toured Wales three times, India twice and South Korea once. Khamira will be returning to tour India again in December 2024. Our music is a unique amalgamation of Welsh folk, Hindustani Classical Music and jazz. Burum have performed regularly at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient, Brittany (France) and across the UK. I also lead an international project called Cwmwl Tystion, on which I've worked with international stars such as Melvin Gibbs (USA) Nguyên Lê (France), Soweto Kinch and Orphy Robinson (both UK), inviting them to tour Wales performing original, cutting-edge Welsh jazz. I am Chair of the Welsh jazz body Jazz Explorers Cymru set up to promote Welsh jazz within and outside of Wales. I was nominated for an Ivor Novello award for composition in 2022.
Yasmine Latkowski
Composer and performer Yasmine Latkowski has gained recognition for her ability to seamlessly blend diverse cultural influences into her music. She is dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices, and actively seeks opportunities to collaborate with marginalised communities. Inspired by her dual heritage and the melodies and rhythms of Middle Eastern music, Yasmine has composer numerous production albums and documentary scores, collaborating with session players such as Tim Garside, Joelle Barker, and the Klezmer band She'Koyokh. Her latest albums, including Celtic Pipes ( with bagpiper Tim Eastwood), Suspended in Time, Middle Eastern Spirits, and Insights, showcase Yasmine's versatility and deep understanding of global music. She has featured on platforms such as United Nations, BBC Africa Eye, BBC Panorama, and National Theatre Wales and events including FOCUS Wales, International Eisteddfod and Llangollen Fringe. She also works with ethnic minority community groups through the North Wales Multicultural Hub and contributes to Arts Council of Wales’s work around ethnic diversity. In her new band project Panedeni, Yasmine is teaming up with renowned songwriters Siôn Rickard (Lo-fi Jones) and Ayoub Boukhalfa (Oasis One World Choir, National Theatre Wales) to create an exciting blend of Welsh and Arabic music
