The great welsh folk singer Lleuwen has unearthed lost Welsh hymns and is bringing them to new audiences in thrilling live shows. Here’s a little note of adulation for this powerhouse performer.

More Lleuwen, please! open.substack.com/pub/raymondwri…

With funding cuts to Wales’s National Museum bringing new focus on the idea of the gallery, is now the time to debate the idea of art as property object?

What is a gallery for? - my latest Substack open.substack.com/pub/raymondwri…

The publicity drive starts here...

First outing for Abandon All Hope open.substack.com/pub/raymondwri…

A comedy icon in the making?

Who is Tony Mammoth? open.substack.com/pub/raymondwri…

Ten years after her debut short story collection, Georgia Carys Williams returns with a novel.

The Dramatic Pause of Georgia Carys Williams. open.substack.com/pub/raymondwri…

Jimmy Carr's laugh sounding 'like a goose wondering where his friends have gone' is a line that's going to stick with me forever.
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Talking to Carys Davies about her new novel, “Clear”, and to Rebecca Hardy Griffiths and Cat Gardiner about how the challenges facing the National Museum will reverberate across the visual arts ecosystem of Wales.

The latest BBC Radio Wales Arts Show.

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New single from south Walian electro-pop duo who formed in Cardiff in 2001 sees them veer off to the dusty roads of Country Music for a collaboration with one of UK country’s biggest stars.

The Vanities are just passing thru open.substack.com/pub/raymondwri…

A Davies MS said in the Senedd yesterday ‘I don’t want to live in a country where the choice is either see my GP or see a Van Gogh. That is not a civilised choice. That is the choice of a failed state’. Indeed. See ⁦Gary Raymond⁩prolific blog below open.substack.com/pub/raymondwri…

Is having to choose between healthcare and culture a “tough choice”, or the choice of a failed state?

This is what cutbacks look like: less art open.substack.com/pub/raymondwri…

there is probably more opportunity to see Wales’s Impressionist and Victorian Art collection outside of Wales than in it at the moment - with works on tour, but the museum’s own displays and key galleries of the Davies sister’s collection and incredible Victorian art art closed

Great Arts Show coming up this week talking to Carys Davies about her new novel, Clear, and talking about the National Museum cuts and… lo and behold… some actual art.

Gwen Davies’s letter to the Culture Committee detailing the way the Books Council of Wales have mismanaged the magazine and publishing sector is explosive.

More shots fired at the Books Council of Wales open.substack.com/pub/raymondwri…

In the Cardiff building of the National Museum, Wales now has a powerful symbol in the fight against the funding cuts.

Board up the windows! The future of Wales's national museum? open.substack.com/pub/raymondwri…

A shot in the arm for the arts in Wales?

Long overdue upgrade for art and culture in Welsh Government open.substack.com/pub/raymondwri…

I’ll be talking with Richard Gwyn next Friday at 3pm at the Abergavenny Writers’ Festival, but ahead of that, here’s Richard answering the BRG Writer QnA.
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Surely it’s going to be sooner rather than later before Man Utd get the trouncing they so richly deserve.

I’m going to be in the car for 2 hours now; what should I be listening to?

Join Richard Gwyn at the Aber Writing Fest who will be in conversation with Gary Raymond about his new book, 'Ambassador of Nowhere,' which chronicles his journeys in Latin America. Friday 19/04 from 3pm.
More info and booking link here:
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The O.J. doc Made in America is one of the greatest documentaries ever made. Using the tragic evil of that man to tell the story of post-civil rights America, and, from there, the entire story of the U.S. If you haven’t seen it, now is as good a time as any (8hrs long, mind).