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Cynefin: Shimli review – this Welsh folk music is a quietly political antidote to the modern age

Singer Owen Shiers combines traditional ballads, musical settings of poems, and originals built on stories collected from rural west Walians, all sung in Welsh

The Guardian - UK · Jan 31, 2025

The 10 best folk albums of 2024

Traditional songs in dub, Irish keening with touches of Yoko Ono and shape-note hymns with sound-processing were among the year’s records renewing an ever elusive genre

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2024

Jacken Elswyth: Six Static Scenes review – the tension, twang and beauty of banjo

Tunes by well-known banjo players inspire new departures that range from avant garde to shimmeringly pretty

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2022