To celebrate, as a part of Cardiff Music City Festival we are having the birthday bash of ALL birthday bashes with our 10th birthday twin @HorizonsCymru at @thegatelive THIS THURSDAY!
The lineup is STACKED, the scene is SET and the tickets are FREE! Get yours now → https://www.tickettailor.com/events/beaconscymru/1379007
Folk Song Weekend 
17th – 19th of January 2024
Ambell i Gân is a weekend of Welsh folk singing with three of Wales’ leading voices - Gwilym Bowen Rhys, Beth Celyn and Gwenan Gibbard 
The weekend is held at Plas Caerdeon, and costs £300 for the weekend including all meals and accommodation. An early bird discount is available until November!
Book & find out more information here 
Premiering at Llais festival 2024, Llwch a Llechi [Dust and Slate] by composer and multidisciplinary artist Gwen Siôn is a fusion of electronic music, environmental recordings, orchestral instrumentation and voices exploring connections between music, landscape, tradition and ritual. Llwch a Llechi will be performed live by 10 BBC National Orchestra of Wales musicians, one of Wales’ oldest choirs - Côr y Penrhyn (a community group originally formed as a slate quarrymen’s choir for workers at Penrhyn Quarry, Bethesda), and Gwen on live electronics using her own hand-built instruments made from site-specific recycled natural materials (including slate, oak and yew).
Llwch a Llechi takes inspiration from socio-political histories, industrial heritage, folklore motifs and the cultural relationship that exists between music and landscape, and its deeper roots in Celtic oral tradition in Wales. This brand new audio-visual project combines elements of experimental electronic music, contemporary orchestral composition, choral composition (specifically informed by North Wales’ working-class tradition of quarrymen’s choirs), field recordings and archive footage (provided by the Screen and Sound Archive, National Library of Wales) to create a unique and engaging live performance piece.
Tocynnau/Tickets: www.wmc.org.uk/en/llais/2024/gwen-sion-llwch-a-llechi
