Birmingham! A big night at Grand Union Folk Club with us and the mighty Elizabeth Still, Fri 26 April. AND before the gig I’ll be teaching some May songs and you should come to that bit too… lynx in the bio because I’m being repressed The Great Divorco 🙄

Something I have learned from my own advanced stage cancer and now in the midst of my Dad’s terminal cancer. You don’t need someone to tell you to keep your chin up, or ‘stay positive’ or tell you about their friend’s cousin’s hairdresser’s Aunty who cured their cancer by wafting

Happy birthday Imogen Holst, born this day 1907. Composer, conductor and educator: she lived a musical life. She wrote books, formed choirs & conducted orchestras when it was rare to see a woman in the podium, and her music is increasingly being discovered and performed today.

After breakfast, c.1900 by Finnish painter Elin Danielson-Gambogi #WomensArt

Only two weeks now before we travel down to Cornwall for the first time in decades! Looking forward to playing at the St. Austell Arts Centre on Saturday, May 4th. Tickets available here: uk.patronbase.com/_CornishRivier… See you there! Welwn ni chi yno!

Llio Rhydderch - Morluniau o fy ffenest & Adlais y môr ar #CURADUR Fideo llawn | Full video 📲 youtu.be/XyuV4JH6FRU 🎤 CURADUR - S4C 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Clic & BBC iPlayer #harp #s4c #lwp #welshmusic

I was lucky enough to be at Welsh National Opera’s Death in Venice tonight, it was fabulous, but mostly I was moved by the sensitivity and virtuosity of the orchestra, under threat of a 15% pay cut-7 weeks less work a year. Please do sign this to support them. megaphone.org.uk/petitions/prot…

Diolch Myrddin a dymuniadau gorau, Mererid.

Arteeeests of zee world: BEHOLD. 1) MU Music are on the hunt for someone to design and deliver a major creative project in the 2024-25 academic year that in some way involves uni students, local young people aged 8–17 and the wider community in Co. Kildare.

Protect Welsh National Opera! Funding cuts are putting its future at risk. Support the Musicians' Union's campaign to keep its members in secure work and keep Wales' rich musical heritage strong Musicians' Union #WNOProud Sign the petition: megaphone.org.uk/petitions/prot… via Megaphone UK

Dathliad dwbl - dathlu cysylltiadau Cymru ac Iwerddon! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪#Cymraeg #Gaeilge

🎨Ganed Kyffin Williams ar y dydd hwn yn 1918. Wedi’i eni yn Llangefni, mae’n cael ei ystyried fel un o brif arlunwyr Cymru yn ystod yr 20fed ganrif. Mae corff sylweddol o'i waith yma. Pa yw dy ffefryn👉casgliadywerin.cymru/discover/tags/…

Students and those with no photo ID, PLEASE ARRANGE A POSTAL VOTE. That can be done now, well in advance, and guarantee your vote. This is a critical election, and one timed to exclude the student vote (photo ID req affected local election turnout).

Penblwydd Hapus i Phyllis Kinney sy'n dathlu ei phenblwydd yn 102 oed heddiw. 🎉❤️🎼 Diolch iddi am ei chyfraniad aruthrol i Gymru fel cantores, cerddor ac awdur y campwaith 'Welsh Traditional Music'. Mae archifau Phyllis a'i gŵr Merêd yn Archifydd LLGC Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

We cannot wait to be captivated by Jess Dandy at the #LlandeiloMusicFestival, who's voice has been likened by ‘The Times’ to Kathleen Ferrier. Pianist and musicologist Ceri Owen will accompany Jess for what promises to be wonderful evening #GwladYGan

Ceri and I performing this Saturday in Capel Cenarth / bydd Ceri a fi yn rhannu caneuon ac alawon yn Cenarth ar nos sadwrn. 7-8.30 smallworld.org.uk/llais-yr-afon-…

Hail, muso Twittsters: today is Day 1 of a month I'm dedicating to the AWESOME composer, Luigi Nono, born 100 years ago this year, not that you'd know from Proms programming etc. I'm hosting a Nono listening event at QM 16/12, & will be promoting him all #NonoNovember - please RT

For Day 2 of #NonoNovember, the day Christians say Mass for the dead, we focus on the weightiest - and most personal - of all the atheist Nono's musical responses to death. *Como una ola de fuerza y luz* (1972) has been often described as a secular requiem youtube.com/watch?v=HzWjSW…

Day 11, of #NonoNovember, & another of his extraordinary anti-war musical interventions, for this Remembrance season. One of my absolute favourites, commissioned by the Edinburgh Festival, *Canti di Vita e d'Amore*, here in the initial recording from 1962 youtube.com/watch?v=w4i8lC…

🎨The No Welsh Art exhibition is now open. 🔗library.wales/visit/things-t… #NoWelshArt