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11. Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18

2021 Welsh Music Prize nominee Carwyn Ellis chats with friend & producer Kassin straight outta Brazil about his nominated album with Rio 18 – Mas.

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4. The Anchoress

2021 Welsh Music Prize nominee The Anchoress chats with Beverley Whitrick from the Music Venue Trust about their nominated album – The Art of Losing

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5. Gruff Rhys

2021 Welsh Music Prize nominee Gruff Rhys chats with journalist Keith Cameron about his nominated album – Seeking New Gods.

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6. Kelly Lee Owens

2021 Welsh Music Prize nominee Kelly Lee Owens chats with acclaimed producer Daniel Avery about her nominated album – Inner Song

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7. Pys Melyn

2021 Welsh Music Prize nominee Ceiri Humphreys from Pys Melyn chats with DJ Dilys about their nominated album – Bywyd Llonydd

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8. Gwenifer Raymond

2021 Welsh Music Prize nominee Gwenifer Raymond chats with broadcaster Adam Walton about her nominated album – Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain.

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9. Novo Amor

2021 Welsh Music Prize nominee Ali Lacey aka Novo Amor chats with long time friend, filmmaker and collaborator Josh Bennett about his nominated album – Cannot Be, Whatsoever.

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10. Afro Cluster

2021 Welsh Music Prize nominees Afro Cluster chat with actor, singer/songwriter and everything in between Asha Jane about their nominated album – The Reach.

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2. Datblygu

2021 Welsh Music Prize nominee Mace the Great chats with friend and musician Traxx about his nominated album – My Side of the Bridge.

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1. Mace the Great

2021 Welsh Music Prize nominee Mace the Great chats with friend and musician Traxx about his nominated album – My Side of the Bridge.

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3. El Goodo

2021 Welsh Music Prize nominee Pixy Jones from El Goodo chats with friend and fellow musician Matthew Evans from the Keys about their nominated album – Zombie

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NEWYDD | NEW: Running Down the Dream – Midnight run

Midnight run is a project is a brand new project by Welsh singer Jacob Elwy and guitarist / songwriter Jon Macnel. The pair met at the Prince of Wales bar in Putney, London. Jacob Elwy, the self-proclaimed Prince of Wales and Jon Macneil’s shared passion for sound and rock music soon turned into midnight writing sessions. In November 2021 they will be dropping their first single ‘running down a dream’ a perfect blend of acoustic driven Indie rock music accompanied by expressive vocals and powerful melodies.

CoDa 2021

Yn ystod tri mis olaf 2021, mae Tŷ Cerdd yn cynnal gŵyl ddigidol – CoDa 2021 – gan roi sylw arbennig i waith a grëir gyda a chan y crewyr cerddoriaeth rhyfeddol y mae’r sefydliad wedi bod yn arwain llwybrau creadigol yn eu cwmni dros y flwyddyn ddiwethaf (gyda chefnogaeth ariannol gan CCC, Sefydliad PRS, Youth Music ac Ymddiriedolaeth RVW).

Here you’ll find one the CoDI Opera pieces (one of many strands this year). Following a series of intensive workshops with composer Rob Fokkens and writer/dramaturg Sophie Rashbrook, six composers created their own scenario, libretto and music – a single aria each, performed by the fearless Sarah Dacey (soprano) and Christopher Williams (piano). The results are powerful.

Plenty more works from other genres on our site

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Throughout the Autumn Tŷ Cerdd will host CoDa, a digital festival showcasing work created with and by the extraordinary music-creators who have participated in our CoDI 2020/21 and other creative pathways (with funding support from ACW, PRS Foundation, Youth Music and RVW Trust).

Yma fe welwch un o ddarnau Opera CoDI (un o sawl llinyn eleni). Yn dilyn cyfres o weithdai dwys gyda’r cyfansoddwr Rob Fokkens a’r awdur/dramodydd Sophie Rashbrook, creodd chwe chyfansoddwr eu senario eu hunain, libreto a cherddoriaeth – aria sengl yr un, wedi’i pherfformio gan y soprano ddi-ofn Sarah Dacey a’r pianydd Christopher Williams. Mae’r canlyniadau’n bwerus.

Digonedd fwy o weithiau o genres gwahanol ar ein gwefan

Music Theatre Wales – New Directions – Pride (A Lion’s Roar) AUDIO DESCRIPTION

Pride (A Lion’s Roar) narrates the experience of prejudice that many people of colour have endured: of being told that you are “aggressive” or “too loud” because your metaphorical roars are unfamiliar within the environments that you have to operate within. Of being made to feel like you have to make yourself smaller to be accepted, turning your roar into a purr so that others don’t feel threatened.

Pride (A Lion’s Roar) is a new digital opera created by Renell Shaw (composer/music producer) and Rachael Young (librettist/chorus melody), with visuals by Kyle Legall.

Music Theatre Wales – New Directions – Somehow AUDIO DESCRIPTION

Somehow is a love song to ourselves, to those we know and those we have yet to meet. It is an exploration of intimacy and relationships, not only between the music and movement, but between performer and audience. Reflecting on new forms and spaces for music theatre to exist within, writer and dancer Krystal S. Lowe and composer Jasmin Kent Rodgman have created a work that draws on the theatre of opera, the emotion and expression of lieder and innateness of dance. Blurring the lines between onstage and onscreen, Somehow hopes to offer a redefined operatic experience that embodies how we live today and our connections with one another.

Music Theatre Wales – New Directions – The House of Jollof Opera AUDIO DESCRIPTION

Adeola is a budding chef. He brings style and his specialty, vegan jollof. Asha is a tired, hard-working boss of a neighbourhood café. Will her job criteria barriers deter Adeola, or will he bring the flavour party she needs?

Welcome to The House of Jollof Opera, written by Tumi Williams as an exploration and expansion of the operatic form, and directed by Sita Thomas, a multidisciplinary director. The creative duo enjoyed developing their collaborative relationship, bringing their own cultural heritages to the piece, and engaging in contemporary opera in Cardiff.

The Successors of the Mandingue

The Successors of the Mandingue bring you an African interactive music experience and a cultural exchange of percussion, music, drumming, singing, storytelling, and dance.   Based in Cardiff, Wales, we build bridges between musical cultures; bringing artists, communities, and their ideas together. The company’s original influences and artistic practice being rooted in authentic West African […]

‘Twitchers’ Gareth Churchill

This work is funded by the European Cultural Foundation.

A video produced by composer Gareth Churchill for the first round of commissions of the #NiChawnEinDileu #WeShallNotBeRemoved project inviting creative responses to disabled and Deaf peoples experiences of Covid-19 pandemic across Europe.


View more creative responses here

New Directions: Somehow

Somehow is a love song to ourselves, to those we know and those we have yet to meet. It is an exploration of intimacy and relationships, not only between the music and movement, but between performer and audience. Reflecting on new forms and spaces for music theatre to exist within, writer and dancer Krystal S. Lowe and composer Jasmin Kent Rodgman have created a work that draws on the theatre of opera, the emotion and expression of lieder and innateness of dance. Blurring the lines between onstage and onscreen, Somehow hopes to offer a redefined operatic experience that embodies how we live today and our connections with one another.

Laru – Pys Melyn

Cyfarwyddwyd gan Ceiri Humphreys Golygu gan Ceiri Humphreys Geiriau gan Ceiri Humphreys a Jac Williams Music gan Ceiri Humphreys yn seiliedig ar ‘Eddie’s Jazz Thing’ gan Trojan Epoque (1984) Llais – Jac Williams Bob dim arall – Ceiri Humphreys

New Directions: Pride (A Lion’s Roar)

Pride (A Lion’s Roar)  narrates the experience of prejudice that many people of colour have endured: of being told that you are “aggressive” or “too loud” because your metaphorical roars are unfamiliar within the environments that you have to operate within. Of being made to feel like you have to make yourself smaller to be accepted, turning your roar into a purr so that others don’t feel threatened.

Pride (A Lion’s Roar) is a new digital opera created by Renell Shaw (composer/music producer) and Rachael Young (librettist/chorus melody), with visuals by Kyle Legall.

FOCUS Wales 2021

FOCUS Wales is back and will take place over 7th–9th October 2021!