fernhill

Bio:

"Beautiful voice, excellent band" ROBERT PLANT

"Don't miss" THE OBSERVER

Since they formed in 1996, fernhill have become highly regarded, innovative cultural ambassadors for Wales and its folk music, having toured in over 20 countries and three continents. Intimate enough with tradition that they are unafraid to stretch it's boundaries they have appeared at UK festivals as diverse as Greenman, Womad, the Oxford folk festival, Whitby Musicport and Glasgow's Celtic Connections. Radio One's Huw Stephens is a fan of their music and invited them to play at the first Latitude festival and to headline an acoustic night at Cardiffs' SWN festival in 2008.

international appearances include Festival De Cornouaille, Telemark, Kaustinen, major concerts in Athens, Rome, Brussels and Tokyo plus British Council tours of Southern and East Africa, Vietnam, Poland and the Czech republic.

The group's most recent album 'Na Pradle' made the MOJO top ten folk album list 2007. The album captures highlights of an intimate concert in Prague recorded and broadcast by Czech radio 3 during a tour of the Czech republic in 2006.

"Na Prádle is extraordinary, as transfixing to the CD listener as it clearly was to the Czech audience. Julie Murphy’s commanding voice cuts through the Divadlo na Prádle (Theatre at the Laundry) with passion, power and grace." COLIN IRWIN, FROOTS

the musical traditions that inform the individual players are many and diverse but the common urge is to challenge, enchant and to reach into the core of a shared inheritance and memory and to make that available to anybody who wants a piece. three musicians in the past who have helped shape the music are jonathan shorland, andy cutting and cass meurig. musicians who have guested live and on recordings are danny kilbride, karen tweed, gerard kilbride, paula gardiner, andy coughlan, dylan fowler, jean-luc tomas, richard llewellyn and desi wilkinson.

ers ffurfio yn 1996 mae fernhill erbyn heddi yn genhadon i'r diwylliant cerddorol gynhenid gymreig. maent wedi teithio i dros ucen o wledydd dros dri cyfandir. mae'r traddodiade sy'n sbarduno'r gerddorieth yn llu ond yr un yw'r bwriad sef i herio, swyno ac i gyrredd cnewyllyn etifeddieth a chof ac i rhannu hwn a phwy bynnag a fynno. tri cerddor sy wedi gweitho ar shapo'r gerddorieth yn y gorffennol yw jonathan shorland, andy cutting a cass meurig. ymhlith y sawl sy wedi recordo a whare'n fyw ta'r band yw danny kilbride, karen tweed, gerard kilbride, paula gardiner, andy coughlan, dylan fowler, jean-luc tomas, richard llewellyn a desi wilkinson.

All their albums are available from amazon uk or beautiful jo records.
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Member Since:

February 28, 2009

Members:

Julie Murphy - vocals/llais
Ceri Matthews - guitar/flute
Christine Cooper - violin/viola
Tomos Williams - trumpet/piano

with

Tim Harries - bass
Chris O Connor - bass
Nobsta Nutts - rap

Sounds Like:

Music from the edge of an island. Here we are in Brussels in January 2010:

Record Label:

beautiful jo records