Lynne Denman
Stacey Blythe
Chris O'Connor
Mark O'Connor
Oliver Wilson-Dickson
Influences
Anne Briggs June Tabor Julie Murphy Linda Healy Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee Lowell George Meic Stevens Aneirin Taliesin Sheila Stewart Brigitte Kloareg Les Voix Bulgaires JJ Cale Cozens (lute book) Joan Baez Anita O'Day Taith Gillian Welch Glenn Miller The Andrews sisters Dick Gaughan Sild Cass meurig Llio Rhydderch the Kilbrides Toreth Szapora Kanta Big Bill Broonzy
Magical multi-instrumentality, superb songcraft, new comedy and award winning performance poetry, all from some of Wales' most charismatic women performers in the biggest Yurt in Wales, on an Autumn evening! And no credit crunch excuses for not being there - the price is whatever you want to put in the Meltdown Hat!
STACEY BLYTHE A one-woman meltdown, Stacey Blythe plays harp/whistles/keyboard/ accordion etc in internationally acclaimed Welsh folk band Ffynnon. Stacey has performed with Billy Bragg, Meredith Monk, Michelle Shocked, and rising American singer Pamela Wyn Shannon (at last months amazing Meltdown) to name but a few. "Blythe's versatility shines at every note" Radio 2 Folk Reviews.
RACHEL TAYLOR BEALES Her latest album Red Tree - produced by Welsh troubadour Martyn Joseph - takes British folk as its starting point, adding in hypnotic, echoing vocals, subtle strings and country/blues tones to create something entirely new. 'Highly Recommended" BBC Radio 2's Bob Harris "hauntingly beautiful’ Acoustic Magazine www. myspace. com/racheltaylorbeales
CLARE POTTER One of Wales’s most successful performance poets, lived and taught in New Orleans for many years and has won the John Tripp award for spoken poetry. "Crackling with wry humour, affection and defiance".Rachel Trezise
COMING SOON Mr & Mrs Clark & Meltdown present A CHRISTMAS CABBA HEY! Sun 14th Dec at Milgis “like some crazed darkly surrealistic cosmic guerrilla attack” David Adams
Gobeithio eich bod chi wedi cael amser da yn Lorient! Mae'r awyrgylch yn gret yn dyw e? Stacey - gobeithio yn fawr i gwrdd lan am baned cyn hir!!! Bethan x
The New York Times "Katell Keineg has a voice so charged with feeling that it lifts everything she sings to the level of a primal wail"
Tom Moon, National Public Radio (US) " Here are wildly inspired songs filled with literate and mystical images, songs that aspire to the sprawl and sweep of epic novels."
The Independent (UK) "Spacious and spooky"
LA Times "Conveying a nearly beatific sense of joy in performance"
Thanks for the add! I found your CD a while back in the Boston College Celtic music library and was quite impressed with the creativity and passion in your music. Best of luck!
