Calennig

Calennig have already been the foremost folk music group in Wales for a lot more than 2 decades. Furthermore to five albums, the group continues to be presented in two theater-based displays, “Trade Winds”, which compiles early-twentieth hundred years stories and ocean chanteys by Rees Baldwin, and “AN ACCOUNT Of Two Streams”. Some of its concerts and dance occasions, known in Wales as “twmpath” are performed like a duo offering former Swansea Jack port multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Mick Tems and Anglo-concertina and spoons participant Patricia Carron-Smith, Calennig is usually expanded to add such music artists as Iolo Jones (fiddle) of Ar Log as well as the Hennesseys, Peter Davies (bombardes, bagpipes and woodwinds) and Mike Kennedy (bass). The group’s debut recording, “Tracks And Music From Wales”, released in 1980, reached the very best ten within the music graphs compiled by English music journal, “Melody Manufacturer”. Since their third recording, “Dwyddiau Gwynion Ionawr/Snowy Times Of January”, released in 1985, Calennig offers recorded in the Sain studios within the Llyn Peninsu a in Gwynedd, Wales. Referred to as “among Wales’ most journeyed rings”, Calennig offers toured New Zealand 3 x and has journeyed to america twelve instances. Both Tems and Carron-Smith have already been energetic outside Calennig. Carron-Smith is recognized as probably one of the most thrilling dance callers in Wales, while, Tems offers composed material to get a choir, Cantorian Creigiau, as well as for such displays as “Caradog: THE VERY FIRST Welsh Hero!”, “THE PRICE TAG ON Everything” and “Aladdin”. The displays possess showcased Carron-Smith’s abilities as an celebrity.