We have a double bill featuring two great bands:

Gwirfoddolwyr Plus Blaidd

Gwirfoddolwyr first starting playing in late 2008 in their first term in Penweddig.They won the Urdd eisteddfod in May/June 2009 as a year 7 band.They played Mid Mad last year and opened Castell Roc as well.They won a competition on S4C in 2010 called Ysgol Roc which was in X factor format beating another 5 bands in the televised finals.Their major gig though has to be Goginan Festival!!!!!!!.The band comprises of Glyn lead guitar and vocals, Ellis rhythm guitar and backing vocals, Geraint on bass guitar and Gethin on drums.

Blaidd are a new band featuring ex members of The Poppies, Rogues and The Dancing Bullets. We sing our own songs in Welsh but play English covers by bands like The Clash, The Band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Motorhead, Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash and so on. It’s a three piece band featuring Sam Rhys James on guitar and lead vocal, Garyson Price on Bass and backing vocals and Roy Price Jr on Drums. We have just recorded a session for BBC Radio Cymru and will be releasing our first single in a few months time. More information and music can be found at www.facebook.com/blaiddcymru

Be there or be scared!

Even More Talent at Goginan!!

More “has Goginan got talent” action at the Druid Inn on 19^th November. Got something serious or silly come and share it with us!

Ouroboros >>> at The Druid Inn – Friday 20^th May 9.00pm

featuring Maggie Nicols (voice, keyboard), Pete Stacey (reeds, flute) and Sid Thomas (keyboard, reeds).

Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Nicols
http://www.acgc.co.uk/artists_peter_stacey.htm
http://www.spoonbillmusic.com

Maggie Nicols has collaborated regularly over the years with Swiss pianist Irene Schweizer and French bassist Joelle Leandre, including tours and three recordings as the trio Les Diaboliques. Her collaboration with Ken Hyder also continues; the duo incorporate elements of the traditional tunes of their shared Scottish background into jazz improvisations in their most recent project, Hoots and Roots Duo. Other continuing projects for Nicols include a duo with pianist Pete Nu, a singing duo with her daughter Aura Marina, a trio with avant-gardists Caroline Kraabel and Charlotte Hug, a duo with pianist Steve Lodder (“The Maggie Nicols Songbook”), and Light and Shade, a project with lighting designer Sue Neal. She has also been involved with many other groups, such as the a capella group Inspiration (former Brixton Youth), Trevor Watts’ Moire Music, Very Varied, The Lewis Riley Quartet, No Rules OK, Pulse, Gustt, and Al Dente.

Nicols has performed internationally for several decades, including the Zürich and the Frankfurt “Canaille” festivals, the Victoriaville Festival. She also gave solo performances at the Moers Music Festival, the Cologne Triennale, and a number of other creative and improvised music festivals. She has worked with a great many improvisers from all over the world, including drummer Günter “Baby” Sommer, British soprano saxophonist Lol Coxhill, Dutch trombonist and violinist Annemarie Roelofs, the Australian Relative Band (with Jim Denley), tuba player Pinguin Moschner, the Loverly Band, Cats Cradle, and Sean Bergin’s Song Mob (with Han Bennink and Tristan Honsinger). Source: Wikipedia