Fundraiser to welcome an Afghan family, Kiri Pritchard-Mclean as Host plus Mel Owen, Anna Thomas and Stephen Bailey.

Line up subject to change.

Age 14+

Raffle Prizes:

A voucher for two seaweed barrels at Halen Môn
https://www.halenmon.com/product/seaweed-baths/

Bundle from lotti and wren
https://lottiandwren.com/

Handmade Welsh pottery wax burner and wax melt selection from Cardi and co.
https://www.cardicandle.co.uk/

Piece of art at Oriel ger y fenai

They don’t make bands like Alabama 3 anymore. Emerging out of the haze of the late 1980s South London acid house squat scene, their pioneering combination of soulful, bluesy country rock with the irresistible pulse of techno gave them a sound all of their own. By the end of the century they’d found a global audience by giving The Sopranos its indelible theme tune Woke Up This Morning, and were taking their ecstatic 12-piece live show to venues all over the planet.

Alabama 3’s story started, as many good stories do, at a rave in Peckham. It was there that Rob Spragg (aka Larry Love) met Jake Black (aka The Very Reverend D. Wayne Love), and the pair soon started making music together. “D. Wayne Love used to DJ and I would MC,” recalls Love. “We’d mix in Robert Johnson, Mahalia Jackson and blues stuff with techno.” At the height of Britpop, they were signed by Geffen for a million dollars and went on to release their seminal debut album ‘Exile on Coldharbour Lane’ in 1997. Over the last 20 years the band have toured extensively throughout the USA, Europe and Australia, as well as appearances at major festivals including the main stage at Glastonbury, T in the Park, TRNSMT, Bob Dylan at Croke Park, Beautiful Days, Bearded Theory, Electric Picnic, Oxygen, Secret Garden Party, Latitude, Isle of Wight, SXSW and Byron Blues Festival. In November 2023, Alabama 3 returned with their vital fourteenth studio album, a stirring soundtrack for our times titled ‘Cold War Classics Vol. 2’, which layers darkly comic social commentary over the sort of tunes designed to help you dance your worries away

Chance win a Wales football shirt signed by the whole Euro 2025 team. All the money will go to Ogwen Tigers young women and girls. Support the growing sport of Women’s football.

1 strip = £5

Souls, alongside their Oakland collective Hieroglyphics, are considered to be some of the most highly skilled lyricists in rap from their inception to today. The Hiero crew broke Hip Hop norms with personal, emotional rhymes rather than solely gangster-rap.

Cited as a huge influence by too many artists, from A Tribe Called Quest and The Roots, to Andre 3000, Kanye West, De La Soul, Wu-Tang, Mos Def and more. The California natives have grown to be known as pioneers of independent Hip Hop.

Souls Of Mischief’s ’93 ‘til Infinity’ remains one of the most respected and well-known Hip Hop classics of all time, referred to in pop culture time and time again.

‘This is 93 ‘til infinity, you know, so it’s markin’ the time but also movin’ beyond the time, you feel me?’
– Yasiin Bey (Mos Def)

Carlo Poddighe is a Professional musician since 1993, and owner with his brother Andrea of PODDIGHE studio, a Recording Studio in Brescia, Italy. He toured many times around Europe and United States with his Bands, Cek Deluxe and The Matt Project.

With The Matt Project he worked with Joss Stone’s Producer Steve Grenweel in many recording session in New York. In Italy he produced and played 3 albums of famous Italian singer Omar Pedrini, also recorded and cooproduced an album of American TV star Joe Bastianich of Masterchef Fame. In 2014 he played, produced and recorded an album for Roman Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola’s son, “A molto Groovy christmas”. From 2021 he’s been playing with his One Man Band project “SuperEgo” and found good success with his videos on social networks.

Two families with a musical bond in a new band playing the music that first drew them together.
Dirk and Amelia Powell are a daughter/father duo with strong roots in the bayous of Louisiana and the mountains of Kentucky. Amelia’s grandfather Dewey Balfa was known as a premier Cajun fiddler and cultural ambassador. She grew up experiencing the deep center of that tradition while simultaneously exploring the old-time music of her Appalachian heritage with her father, Dirk, who learned banjo, fiddle, and guitar from his own grandfather, J.C. Hay. Amelia is known for her hard-driving guitar playing and soulful vocals. Dirk has been regarded as a “musician’s musician” for the last several decades. His solo recordings, with a focus on exploring the emotional depth of tradition, have proven very influential on younger generations. He’s been a frequent part of Transatlantic Sessions and toured with artists such as Joan Baez, Eric Clapton, Loretta Lynn, Levon Helm, and Rhiannon Giddens. Together, they perform music of their heritage, write and craft original songs, and bring audiences the kind of soulful connection that comes from family playing together with trust, humour, and love.

Jock Tyldesley and Vera van Heeringen have been playing Cajun and old time music together for 25 years, in The Flatville Aces and with touring Louisiana legends such as Eddie Lejeune, Sheryl Cormier and Courtney Granger. Vera comes from a bluegrass and country music background and has released three critically acclaimed albums of her own material. A soulful songwriter as well as a powerful multi-instrumentalist. Jock picked up his childhood fiddle again at 19 years old, transfixed by the fiddling of The Balfa Brothers, Dennis McGee, Tommy Jarrell and James Bryan. He went on to be a mainstay of the European Cajun and old time scene and a frequent musician in touring US acts. Jock and Dirk have been having musical adventures since 1995, at the Shetland Folk Festival, Glasgow’s Celtic Connections, Baltimore Fiddle Fair, Fire in the Mountain and at concerts and dances in Mexico, France Ireland and Louisiana. Lucas Tyldesley grew up just down the hall from Jock and Vera and has been playing drums since before he could walk, piano since he was 7 and now jazz and funk keyboards and organ with his trio The Boutang Chiefs.

“a rip-roaring Thursday night set, setting the tone for the weekend…” Deux Familles at Fire in the Mountain – festival review – KLOF Mag

“One of the most respected Americana-Folk musicians of his generation, with four Grammys to his name, and a decade as Joan Baez’s ‘band’, Dirk Powell has more laurels than you can shake a banjo at. He’s not resting on them, he’s building a legacy. That legacy takes the form of Amelia Powell, daughter, and granddaughter of legendary Louisiana fiddler Dewey Balfa. The younger Powell’s talents are immediately clear. She has just the right potent, soulful voice for the job, coupled to a burning passion for the music. Dirk’s instrumental skills and Amelia’s evocative voice made for a night of masterfully performed Cajun and Appalachian music hosted by two charming, and deeply likeable human beings.” The Quintessential Review, Edinburgh, Scotland
“Dirk Powell is a badass. To the bone. He is, in addition to being the greatest old-time banjo player alive, a graduate student of both mountain and Cajun fiddle styles, and diatonic button accordion, an instrument that fights you back, take it from me, I’ve tried. He is a singer, songwriter, producer, recording engineer and, all in all, an artist of unique vision and unbending integrity. As far as I can tell there is no genre of American roots music that Dirk doesn’t understand, no primordial mode he can’t master, no polyrhythmic code he can’t crack.” Steve Earle