First artists announced for St Mary’s Church, the Music Trail and Clebran
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- 26 – 28 October 2023
- Live & Online from West Wales
- 90+ performances across the weekend
- Wristbands just £25 for three days of music, discussion and ideas
*Wristband purchase includes automatic entry into the prize draw for Church tickets*
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Having announced its return to West Wales earlier this year, Other Voices Cardigan has revealed the first wave of incredible live acts set to take to the festival’s stages from 26 – 28 October.
Italian alt-pop sensation Sans Soucis, acclaimed Irish singer-songwriter Susan O’Neill, award-winning Welsh rockers Adwaith and Machynlleth-born triple harpist Cerys Hafana have all been announced as the first of this year’s headliners.
They will all perform live sets in the intimate St Mary’s Church in Cardigan, West Wales, with more headline artists to be announced in the coming weeks. Presented by veteran Welsh broadcaster Huw Stephens, Other Voices Cardigan will collapse global distance, bringing all of the headline performances live to the world for free via YouTube and streaming live to a cinema screen in Mwldan.
Beyond the Church performances, the picturesque town of Cardigan will play host to a Music Trail in 11 venues over the festival’s three days, showcasing the very best handpicked established and emerging musical talent from Ireland and Wales. In an eclectic and diverse mix of more than 35 artists, festival goers can enjoy a journey of musical discovery that celebrates hip-hop, folk, rock, electronica, RnB, punk, electronica, grime, soul and everything in between, reflecting the exciting vibrancy of the two nations’ musical output.
With more artists still to be announced, the Music Trail will feature:
amy michelle | Angharad | Chalk | Climbing Trees | Dead Method | Fia Moon | Gwilym Bowen Rhys | HMS Morris | Joshua Burnside | Lemoncello | Les SalAmandas | Mace The Great | MALI HÂF | Mellt | Minas | Mount Palomar | Samana | Scustin | Seba Safe | Tara Bandito | Uly
In addition to the live music programme, an Other Voices Cardigan festival wristband includes unlimited access to Clebran – Flowing Tides, where some of Wales and Ireland’s most compelling voices will come together for a series of intimate and invigorating discussions and stories, as well as some very special performances. This insightful and fascinating group of thinkers, writers, historians, musicians, linguists, advocates and policy makers will discuss culture, power, representation, the future and much more, all the while capturing our imaginations.
Taking place at Mwldan in the heart of Cardigan, this year’s Clebran programme will consider the unprecedented challenges of our time, but also the possibilities, opportunities and solutions. These discussions will look at the local and the global, the periphery and the centre, community and wider society, and how small movements can bring about significant change.
This year’s Clebran features a collection of incredible speakers; Author and broadcaster Jon Gower, harpist Cerys Hafana, Associate Professor of Early Modern History John Gallagher; writer, composer and performer Daf James; writer-director Tracy Spottiswoode; writer, podcaster and journalist Damian Kerlin; journalist and author Richard Fisher, Senior Lecturer in Applied Psychology Dr Sharon Lambert and historian, writer and reviewer Christopher Kissane, with more to announce in the coming weeks. Clebran will take place in the afternoons/evenings of Thursday, Friday and Saturday across the three-day festival.
Earlybird wristbands are on sale now priced at £25, rising to £35 on 1st October. Wristbands will give unlimited access to all Music Trail events and Clebran sessions across all three days and inclusion into a prize draw to win much sought-after admission wristbands to the live performances at St Mary’s Church. Tickets for the exclusive Church performances will not be for sale and only be available through prize draws and competitions. Follow @othervoiceslive and @theatrmwldan on socials for chances to win tickets.
Full details on festival wristbands and streaming are available at othervoices.ie
Philip King, Other Voices Founder said “We are delighted to be bringing Other Voices back to our home away from home in beautiful Abertifi this October. Other Voices Cardigan and Clebran is the culmination of the collaboration and partnership with our nearest neighbours. It’s a relationship and creative engagement that continues to deepen and strengthen. Under the auspices of the Joint Shared Statement by the Irish and Welsh Governments, we continue with the building of a cultural bridge between our two remarkable and unique countries. This relationship as First Minister Mark Drakeford remarked in Cardigan last year ‘has culture at its soul’. Join us in Cardigan at the end of October, when the music will be wonderful and the conversation provocative and passionate.”
Quote from Dilwyn Davies, CEO of Mwldan: “We’re delighted that Other Voices will be returning to Cardigan in 2023, and also in 2024 and 2025, thanks to the generous support of the Welsh and Irish Governments. As we celebrate the close ties between Wales and Ireland and more specifically Cardigan and Dingle, the original home of Other Voices in Ireland, it’s incredibly exciting to be sharing with audiences a vibrant and diverse line-up of amazing musical talent from both countries across a wide spectrum of genres. We also celebrate Cardigan’s importance as a place where art, culture, language, creativity, ideas, environment and action combine to make our community a precious asset for us all.”
Other Voices Cardigan is staged with the support and investment of Welsh Government and The Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. The event is produced by South Wind Blows in partnership with Mwldan and Triongl. The event will be filmed by Triongl for later broadcast on S4C and RTÉ.
