***English below Artist: TAPESTRI Title:Save your love Format: Single Label: Shimi Distribution: PYST Digital Release Date: October 8th 2021 Genre: Americana / Folk Artist: TAPESTRI Teitl: Arbed dy gariad Fformat: Single Label: Shimi Dosbarthu: PYST Dyddiad Ryddhau Digidol: Hydref 8fed 2021 Genre: Americana / Gwerin Mae Tapestri,  band Americana Lowri Evans a Sera Zyborska yn rhyddhau fersiwn Gymraeg a Saesneg o'r un gân, Arbed Dy Gariad / Save your Love. Gellir gwrando ar y ddwy gân trwy'r linciau uchod. “Absolutely...

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Wales’ largest youth movement, Urdd Gobaith Cymru is pleased to announce that applications are now open for its brand-new choir – Côr yr Urdd – which will travel to Alabama in 2022.  The choir will be formed to mark the Urdd’s centenary in 2022 and offer a once in a lifetime opportunity for young people across Wales to come together and perform in Alabama.  Any individuals between the ages of 18 and 25 can apply to be part of the choir and grab a seat on the exclusive trip. There is no need to be a member of a choir already or have previous experience of singing in a choir....

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Following on from lead single ‘You’re The Summer’, ‘National Anthem’ is the next offering from the collaboration between the Cardiff electronic post-rock duo Ritual Cloak, and writer, comedian and spoken word performer Autumn Juvenile. The track is taken from: 'A Human Being is the Best Disguise’, which is a reworking of Ritual Cloak’s self-titled debut release, with new lyrics and vocals by Autumn Juvenile. Autumn Juvenile outlines the thinking behind ‘National Anthem’: “This is about Cardiff and the UK becoming a building site. It is about a vision of the high street becoming a...

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No Thee No Ess · Dimmer Switch Cardiff Psych Rock phenomena 'No Thee No Ess' are poised to release their 2nd single from anticipated new 'Dimmer Switch' Album out via Surk Recordings this September. 'Dimmer Switch'' is the 2nd single to emerge from the new LP and will be released on Friday 27th August, and 'Dimmer Switch' Album will be released on Friday 17th September 2021. No Thee No Ess is a collaboration between Paul Battenbough (The Cosmic Array, King of Despair) and Andy Fung (Derrero, Cymbient). The two musical and visual artists first met whilst working in the kitchen...

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I’m slowly working on family genealogy and I got some wonderful family photos recently. Ceri had done his article on a Welshman who was at Little Big Horn and I have an ancestor with a very tangential connection to this.   My first (so far) Welsh ancestor in North America was James B. Morgan, Sr.  I haven’t got to see much in the way of primary source documents so far, only research other people have done, so I’ve got a ways to go to reach confident certainty on his history.  James Morgan was born in Llandaff, which is now part of modern-day Cardiff, in 1607. In about 1635, James...

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Cardiff Psych Rock phenomena 'No Thee No Ess' are poised to release their 2nd single from anticipated new 'Dimmer Switch' Album out via Surk Recordings this September. 'Dimmer Switch'' is the 2nd single to emerge from the new LP and will be released on Friday 27th August, and 'Dimmer Switch' Album will be released on Friday 17th September 2021. No Thee No Ess is a collaboration between Paul Battenbough (The Cosmic Array, King of Despair) and Andy Fung (Derrero, Cymbient). The two musical and visual artists first met whilst working in the kitchen of a Cardiff arts centre and bonded...

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(Curriculum vitae) he cuts the lawns of an empty property  the cable of the mower in his hands is the microphone lead of a famous crooner on a 1970s television light entertainment show cracking the whip on kitten backing singers what will the neighbours think in their own private theatres? in the evening when it is more seemly he pours two glasses of rosé wine equally mainly by sound  and during subsequent replenishment  he thinks he can hear the chorus of the hymn mae’r Iesu yn geidwad i mi  (Jesus is my saviour) in the meeting of drink and glass the music that follows work’s end in vino...

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Gladfest 2021 details click here AmeriCymru:  Hi Rhian and many thanks for agreeing to this interview. What can you tell us about the location and history of the Gladstone Library. Rhian: Hi Ceri, nice to chat with you.   Gladstone's Library is based in beautiful Hawarden in Flintshire, North Wales. The library collection was originally based in a temporary building set up by William Gladstone, who was prime minister several times over. After his death, a new building - the one which stands today - was designed and built. It has been described as an...

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Mae Tacsidermi yn ôl, ac O! Ry’n ni wedi’u colli nhw! Tacsidermi yw Gwenllian Anthony o enillwyr Y Wobr Gerddoriaeth Gymreig - Adwaith a’r aml-offerynnwr Matthew Kilgariff - gyda’i gilydd maent wedi creu cân bop ysblennydd - ‘Ble Pierre’. Mae pob nodyn wedi’u chwarae â phŵer ac yn atseinio hafau di-hid a rhamantus. Mae Tacsidermi gyda chefnogaeth David Newington (Boy Azooga) ar y drymiau a chymysgu Matthew Evans (KEYS) wedi creu priodas berffaith rhwng Jane Birkin / Pop 60au Ffrengig Serge Gainsbourg, cerddoriaeth freuddwydiol y 90au gan Stereolab, The Happy Mondays a churiad calon...

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‘You’re The Summer’ is the first taste of the collaboration between Cardiff electronic post-rock duo Ritual Cloak, and writer, comedian and spoken word performer Autumn Juvenile. The track is taken from: 'A Human Being is the Best Disguise’; a reworking of Ritual Cloak’s self-titled debut release, albeit this time with added lyrical and vocal contributions from Autumn Juvenile. Autumn Juvenile reflects on the origins of ‘You’re The Summer’: “I remember him bending down, hugging her with thick tattooed arms, tears in his eyes: “Thank you for the birthday card. We’ll be together soon....

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