Music And Race Wales Showcase
Chapter Arts Centre Market Road, Cardiff, Cardiff, United KingdomThis daytime event (beginning at 10.30am) combines talks and live musical performance, with the performers having been chosen from entries solicited by Ty Cerdd and looking to highlight BAME musicians based in Wales. The conversation will focus on how such artists can thrive and how they can best be championed.
Feel Me
The Blake Theatre Almshouse Street, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, United KingdomThe Paper Birds Theatre Company’s Feel Me is truly interactive theatre at its most modern. Even as the stories are happening onstage in front of the audience, they’re asked via their phones “who and what they care about” from what they’re seeing onstage. Nobody is going to shout at you for having your phone on …
Bess Atwell
Clwb Ifor Bach 11 Womanby Street, Cardiff, CardiffBrighton songwriter with the sort of rep they call burgeoning, thanks chiefly to this year’s Light Sleeper album (Atwell’s third) and a credits list that throws the US indie-folk kitchen sink at listeners: Aaron Dessner from The National produces, with fellas from Beirut, Big Thief and Sufjan Stevens’ band moonlighting.
Freddy Quinne
Glee Club Unit 7A Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay, CardiffSuffering a near-fatal illness is an experience disliked by nearly everyone across the political spectrum, apart from standup comedians who need a subject for their next touring show. Freddy Quinne, for example, contracted Legionnaires’ disease last year, and this year is contracted to perform a 20-date autumn tour of the UK about the ordeal.
Rona Mac
Cwrw 32 King Street, Carmarthen, CarmarthenshireWest Walian alt-folk type Rona Mac is touring her new album Honeymilk And Heavy Weather to what she calls “decentralised locations around the UK to move music away from big cities”. In Wales, these locations are Bank Vault, Aberystwyth (Thurs 10), Solva Memorial Hall (Fri 11), Melville Theatre, Abergavenny (Sat 12), Cwrw, Carmarthen (Tue 15) …
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