Blog Profile / Wales Music
| URL : | http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/walesmusic/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Entertainment / Music | |
| Posts on Regator: | 489 | |
| Posts / Week: | 5 | |
| Archived Since: | July 7, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
A mixed bag for the bank holiday weekend
This spring is on track to be the coldest since 1979. And it certainly felt chilly yesterday with Arctic winds bringing a drop in temperature and showers as well.
Plenty more dry weather to come
I was away from the weather desk last week braving the elements and
filming for a new series of Weatherman Walking. We went to Cyfarthfa
Castle in Merthyr Tydfil and then headed west to Carreg Cennen Castle in
Carmarthenshire.
Vale of Glamorgan Festival 2013 - concert two
It was during Radio 3's recent celebration of the piano that I had my first experience of playing Graham Fitkin's music.
The Joy Formidable - US tour diary 2013, part one
I'm in The City. That's 'The City' - definitive article, capital letters - and I'm here to see the finest band in Christendom.
Shani Rhys James on her 60th year and two new exhibitions
Her bold and chaotic paintings have made her one of the
most remarkable and successful artists of her generation, and as the
eminent Welsh painter Shani Rhys James turns 60, she admits there is no
sign of her slowing down.
East Moors Steelworks, Cardiff
The steelworks at East Moors in Cardiff - "Dowlais by the Sea" as it was invariably known - began its working life in the late 19th century
Proms!
For an orchestral musician in the United Kingdom, especially one in a BBC orchestra, summer can only mean one thing - Proms!
Swansea: Back On The Streets - Chris' story
Filmmakers Chris Rushton and Tracy Harris followed the desperate plight of Swansea's homeless a year ago. Now they have returned to find out if things have changed.
Swansea: Back On The Streets - Tracy's story
Filmmaker Tracy Harris, who herself hails from Swansea, followed the desperate plight of Swansea's homeless a year ago along with Chris Rushton.
Cooler temperatures and rain on the way
I spent the bank holiday weekend in Ceredigion and did a few lovely
walks; one on the coast from Llangrannog to New Quay, another in the
Hafod Estate in Cwmystwth.
Sweet Baboo/Sparrowhawks at Telford's Warehouse, Chester
It was a gig I'll be trying to remember the flavour of for as long as tiny electrical pulses are prepared to dance across my cerebral cortex.
Reasonable weather for the long weekend
Looking back, April this year was colder than average in Wales with a
mean temperature of 6.4 Celsius. This is slightly colder than April 2012
(6.5 Celsius) and the coldest April since 1989.
Tim Price on the journey behind Praxis Makes Perfect
When playwright Tim Price found out he would be collaborating with one
of his idols, Gruff Rhys, for a new National Theatre Wales production,
he could hardly take it in.
I can't believe I didn't know Schumann 2 before now
After the chorale-like opening, the listener is whisked headlong into swirling contrapuntal textures, declamatory rhythmic figures, and constant development of the opening motifs.
Philanthropists' gift on show at National Museum Cardiff
Twelve important contemporary artworks that were gifted to National
Museum Cardiff by art collectors Eric and Jean Cass will go on
show this weekend.
Boutique comedy festival promises laughter in sweetshops and on steam trains
Now in its fourth year, the Machynlleth Comedy Festival is the little
success story which has well and truly put mid-Wales on the comedy
circuit.
Richard Hughes - Laugharne's other son
Say "Laugharne" and most people immediately think of Dylan Thomas and his home at the Boat House. But Thomas was not the only writer to live in the west Wales village.
Circus performers to lead audiences on a merry dance at the Wales Millennium Centre
For those of you who still imagine the circus as a seated experience in a
big top with bearded ladies and seals bouncing balls on their snouts,
you'd be surprised at just how far removed from that vision the work of
he NoFit State company is.
Gales hit Wales
Forget spring, it was more like autumn last night with Wales buffeted by strong to severe gale force winds!
Desmond Donnelly, mercurial but doomed
If ever there was a man who promised much but failed to live up to his massive potential it was former Pembrokeshire MP Desmond Donnelly.