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Record Gramundus, with Paul Hopkins Dafydd Saer, Chris Lewis and Cas Meurig - released Christmas 1997.
1998 - Promoting Gramundus, play with Dafydd Saer, meet John Rodge and Gwenda Owen.
Join Edward Wyman Agency and get extra work on TV and films.
Gigging all over and session work. Start to research Welsh music and history. Many visits to Aberystwyth and Cardiff. Spend time in Ireland - Carlow Kilkenny Galway and Dublin. Get introduced over the internet to Charlene Hutcheson.
Invited to join Swansea Branch committee of Musicians Union.
Go to the first ever TRAC public meeting
1999 - Join Wild Welsh Women. Ask Danny to accompany me for a gig in Neath for the Musicians Union. Play at festivals all over with WWW - Peterborough, Reading, Monmouth, Orkney and Isle of Bute.
Go back to college to study Early Music.
2000 - Cam Ymlaen (affectionately known as Riverclog recorded in Cardiff). Play Estonia, Atlanta Celtic Festival. Meet face to face with Charlene Hutcheson Charlene visits Wales in August and invites me to Burns night in Roanoke 2001
2001 - Estonia, Orkney festivals. Invited to join Musicians Union Committee Cardiff. Become member of Cardiff Branch and Committee with the Musicians' Union. Ask Danny to record a CD with me. Ask Danny if he'd ever been to the USA
did he want a gig?
July 2001 record Jac to Bach. We both attend the Musicians' Union conference in Winchester and perform live spot.
September 10th 2001 ventured to USA and the Shenandoah Valley. Play with Rory Furlong and relaunch the Rowdies with him at a gig in the Castle Hotel in Barry, and gigs in Swansea.
2002 -Did the North American Folk Alliance Convention in Jacksonville, Florida, with Crasdant, Ffynnon and a load from Britain. Resigned from Wild Welsh Women. Prepared and research new CD with Danny. Bad year for health
back problems.. etc etc. still managed to get around and get over to US a further two times playing the eastern board. Play Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau, North Wales. Record sound track for 'Dirgelwch yr Ogof' a film adaptation of a book by T Llew Jones, and end up on the film as a background musician with Eleri Darkin the Triple Harpist.
December Assist in the setting up of "Tunes Through on a Saturday Morning" workshops, in Narberth. Get asked to become a member of Celtish.
2003 - Rehearse like mad for gigs with Celtish & play New Forest, Hoy and RMSM in Twickenham. Go out to my second Folk Alliance Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. Decide that the American market is not ready for me! Set up an Art Council tour with Danny. Record some work in progress tracks with Danny for the possible next CD. Continue doing workshops in Pontardawe and for Tunes Through in Narberth.
March - Visit Holland with Celtish. Record for the new Celtish CD. Play Wimbourne, Ceol Castle, Prema, Guildhall Gloucester
April - Get a part time job as PR Assistant to the Archbishop's Press Officer in the Church in Wales. Get put on training courses in PR Skills, Writing for Press and Crisis Management.
June - Perform in Rhaeadr and Ainsley turns up as one of the audience. Make it his gig! Play a liberal smattering of festivals with Danny, Celtish, and the Rowdies. Glynllifon, Anglesey Flower Festival, Crawley, Saul Canal Festival, Cnapan, including taking Mikey to Dolgellau Festival.
August - Billed to play with Ringo Starr, Moby and Hazel O Connor at the Eden Project Festival when it gets pulled because of no music license granted by council. Arriving at Pontardawe Festival I'm introduced, on stage, to Brian Stafford, then play with him as his band "Instruments of Torture" haven't turned up! Have a great weekend of tunes and similar sense of humour and get asked to put some tracks down on a CD that he's was doing. Miss the Carnival due to the Cardiff Harbour Festival. Nantwich and a wedding in Hereford. Go to an Alabama 3 Sound System gig and end up playing 3 gigs with them in South Wales.
AND THERE'S MORE>>>
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