Music & Nightlife News
With scorching fire shows, street dance, DJ showcases and an open-air cinema, the Barry Island Weekenders are set to make a huge comeback this summer, following record success last year.
All roads will lead to Aberdare Festival 2018 this Bank Holiday weekend, with fun for all the family taking place at Aberdare Park on Saturday, May 26.
Taking place at the Royal Welsh Showground in Llanelwedd, Builth Wells this weekend (19 and 20 May) is the annual Royal Welsh Spring Festival, a fantastic weekend-long celebration of smallholding and rural life.
Green Man is proud to reveal the full list of Welsh talent that will be at Green Man 2018 (16th – 19th August) including bands, theatre performers, visual artists & brewers.
A fantastic line-up of live music is planned throughout the day during Aberdare Festival 2018.
Further details of ‘Epilog’ have been released today – including the names of the artists who will be performing in this…
In 2018, for the first time ever, Wales will compete as an individual nation at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest – offering young singers an opportunity to represent Wales on the HUGE stage in Minsk, Belarus in November.
Pop star and former EastEnders actor Michelle Gayle, and Benidorm and Coronation Street star Alice Barlow will play the roles of Alison and Kat respectively in Son of a Preacher Man – a new musical that plays at Cardiff’s New Theatre next week from 15 – 19 May as part of a major UK tour. Directed by Strictly Come Dancing’s Craig Revel Horwood, it features the soulful music of Dusty Springfield.
A Welsh soprano who is set to serenade guests at this month’s highly anticipated Royal Wedding will soon be taking to the stage in Cowbridge.
More needs to be done to support young people in learning to play a musical instrument otherwise music education risks becoming something that only children born to wealthier parents can afford.