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Silver Gospel Runners

Silver Gospel Runners are an ever expanding group of Cardiff musicians playing vaguely eccentric, whimsical indie pop. They are definitely not a defunct 18th century message carrying service for monks studying ancient ecclesiastical texts. They write songs about lighthouses, toy robots, waterborne diseases the flora and fauna of the southern hemisphere, dinosaurs, casinos and compass points. They play all their own notes and sing all their own words except when they borrow them.

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Mike Peters

Mike Peters first rose to prominence in the mid-80s as lead singer of the Welsh band The Alarm, leaving that group in 1991 to begin a solo career. After the infamous Brixton academy gig, he retreated to a small church in North Wales to write new material for his solo career. Over a year later he emerged, refreshed, and contacted The Alarm's fan club. He then went on tour and funded his own fan club, The MPO (Mike Peters organization), he hasn't looked back since. In 1992 he held The Gathering, a weekend long gig held in his hometown Rhyl.

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Anthony Reynolds

Anthony Reynolds is Writer, photographer, composer, singer.
Jean Cocteau with an occasional beard. Between 1995 and 2002 he made various albums with the groups 'Jack' and 'Jacques'. In 2004 he released an album called 'Neu York' under the name of 'anthony'.
In December 2007 he released his first solo album entitled 'British Ballads'. A collaboration with the writer Colin Wilson is due in the next year entitled 'A world of Colin Wilson'.

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Fernhill

The meeting of Ceri Rhys Matthews and Julie Murphy at Art College in Maidstone was the starting point for Fernhill. Julie went back to Wales with Ceri, and started performing Welsh songs with Ceri's mandolin to accompany Julie's vocals. Later they combined with piper Jonathan Shorland, and, later still in '96, they were joined by squeezebox wizard Andy Cutting to become Fernhill proper. The band have already produced two terrific albums, 'Ca' Nos' and 'Llatai', which demonstrated and developed links between the songs and tunes of the Welsh tradition (much of which survives)...

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Bryn Terfel

Bryn Terfel Jones CBE is a Welsh bass-baritone opera and concert singer. Terfel was initially associated with the roles of Mozart, particularly Leporello, but he has expanded his repertoire to include heavier roles, including Wagner. Bryn Terfel Jones was born in Pantglas, North Wales, the son of a farmer (he knew of another Welsh baritone named Delme Bryn-Jones, so Terfel chose Bryn Terfel as his professional name). Terfel had an interest in and talent for music from a very young age. A family friend taught him how to sing, starting with traditional Welsh songs.

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Future Of The Left

Scuzzy noise-rock threepiece featuring ex-members of mclusky and Jarcrew. Welsh noise-rock trio mclusky was one of the bright spots in the British indie scene's post-Britpop hangover, forming in 1999 and releasing three appealingly noisy albums before splitting in January 2005. During the same period, Welsh electro-punks Jarcrew released two albums before also splitting in early 2005, reportedly due to the drummer finding religion.

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Bethan Nia

Bethan Nia is one of the most individual artists emerging from Wales today. Her music creates a colourful patchwork of sound woven through the strings of her Celtic harp that effortlessly blend the ancient and modern. Singing in Welsh and English her songs build bridges of emotion to the hidden heart of Wales.
(from http://www.myspace.com/bethanniaharp)
Bethan has gained recognition as a Celtic harpist and singer who pushes the boundaries of traditional music.

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