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Big Chimney
Norwegian Church Arts Centre Cardiff Bay, South GlamorganYou can call this music old-timey, but good-timey is likely as appropriate when a top quality stringband get going – and Big Chimney, who hail from the Alaskan mountains, have earned themselves a strong rep through years of global touring. Fiddle, banjo, standup bass and guitar combine in the time-honoured Appalachian style.
Girli
The Globe 125 Albany Road, Cardiff, Cardiff, United KingdomAccording to Buzz’s review archives, Amelia Toomey aka Girli played Cardiff six years to the day (as I write), prompting Jasper Wilkins to muse: “If she keeps up her current trajectory, Girli may well be the future.” The ascendency from Clwb Ifor Bach to the Globe is fairly minor, size-wise, so this maybe didn’t quite …
Cwmwl Tystion III / Empathy
Pontio Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd, United KingdomEmpathy is the third and final touring project devised by Welsh jazz trumpeter Tomos Williams, and for this observer’s money the most impressive musical assembly of all three. The first Cwmwl Tystion lineup, in 2019, drew from the Welsh jazz landscape, the second expanding into England; this time, Williams has pulled off two coups by …
Sonny Tennet
The Moon 3 Womanby Steet, Cardiff, Cardiff, United KingdomEvery UK city now either has a singer-songwriter guy who tries to go viral and/or get sports broadcast theme music placement by singing about their locale, or is going to have one soon. Sam Fender arguably does this for Newcastle already, but a challenger has appeared in Sonny Tennet, who just released inspiringly titled single …
Toby Lee
Bunkhouse 24 Park Street, Swansea, SwanseaBlues-rock fans seem to love it when a young guitarist appears and plays some ‘licks’. Toby Lee, now 19, has been doing this for nearly a decade and is no stranger to stages much bigger than this one: after starring in School Of Rock at the West End back in 2016, he’ll be supporting Jools …
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