"Wales" Blogs & Blog Posts

The Shire Hall, Presteigne; photographed by Percy Benzie Abery c. 1910sThis year's Presteigne Festival, the 42nd, runs from 22 to 26 August 2024, bringing music and art to the Welsh Marches. For 2024, the festival has a focus on the music of Benjam...

Gerard Coutain, winner of the Main Composer Prize at Eisteddfod yr Urdd, 2024Eisteddfod yr Urdd is Europe's largest youth festival, produced by Urdd Gobaith Cymru, a National Voluntary Youth Organisation with over 55,000 members between the ages...

Kirsty Williams-Henry lost out on $750,000 in compensation after being found dishonest in her injury claim against the owners of a pier.

The mid-Wales market town of Machynlleth plays host to artists from classical, Welsh and world music each August for the Machynlleth Festival / Gŵyl Machynlleth which, this year, runs from 18 to 25 August 2024 under artistic directors Juli...

Music Theatre Wales' New Directions programme is devoted to re-imagining opera and in an age when the funds for commissioning and presenting new opera live are getting harder to come by, the company has released a pair of Digital Opera Shorts. The id...

CERDDWN composers Top row (left to right): David John Roche, Jefferson Lobo (photo copyright Matthew Thistlewood), Mared Emlyn, Nathan James Dearden (photo copyright Catrin Arwel) Bottom row (left to right): Gerard Cousins, Heledd Evans, Michelle Mad...

Cardiff Free Library - photo by Bettia's puppet - Own work, Public DomainThe Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama will be celebrating its 75th birthday throughout this year. A year long programme of events will highlight its transformat...