Awen Ensemble
Kings Road Yard Kings Road Yard, Pontcanna, Cardiff, Cardiff, United KingdomA creditably extensive UK tour by Awen Ensemble of Leeds, comprising 16 dates spanning over a month, includes three early May shows in Wales. It’ll be the septet’s first performances in the country, though for Emyr Penry Dance – trumpet player, co-founder of the Ensemble and their de facto bandleader – a show in Aberystwyth …
A Celebration Of Welsh Composers
All Saints Church, Mumbles Church Park Lane, Mumbles, Swansea, Swansea, United KingdomThis concert programme is performed by the Rhondda Symphony Orchestra and was devised by its musical director Edward John, who noted the rarity with which Welsh classical performances feature domestic composition in more than token amounts. These two evenings, then, will include renditions of work by composers from the early 20th century – Nocturne by …
Al Murray The Pub Landlord
Grand Theatre Swansea, UKBedford School’s very own Al Murray is back with his straight-talking publican character for a show titled {Guv Island}. Its premise is that the UK has “lost its way” and seeks someone or something to get it on its uppers again – “offend-o-trons” need not apply. That’s the Pub Landlord saying this of course. Not …
Jah Wobble
Tivoli Brunswick Road, Buckley, Flintshire, United KingdomJah Wobble’s most recent solo album The Bus Routes Of South London was written and partly recorded on the bus routes of south London, with the musician – whose work in Public Image Ltd makes him one of the most influential bassists of the 1970s and 80s – composing dubby ambient instrumentals on an iPad …
Nabba Wales 2024
The Riverfront Kingsway, Newport, Gwent, United KingdomThere are one or two bodybuilding contests in the Riverfront per year, and hey their money is as good as anyone’s, at least now banknotes are plastic and can’t get damaged by baby oil. This is one such contest and the winner(s) of it will go through to the NABBA UK finals and then maybe …
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