Link to CALAN VIDEOS on their website
Mere words cannot describe the Welsh band CALAN. You must see CALAN perform to know why Folk Wales called them “A storming juggernaut of cool-Cymru-with-attitude power-folk with a jaw-dropping repertoire”.
Now see CALAN in live concert on
Thursday, October 20, 2022
7:00 PM
$20
TICKET INFORMATION and more can be found by clicking on the following link to the CALAN concert page of the MEETING HOUSE PRESENTS concert series website.
https://ushartford.org/nourishing-spirit/music/meetinghousepresents/
Meeting House Presents does not take reservations, but their link to buy tickets from Brown Paper Tickets is near the top of their CALAN page.
- Ticket policies, contact information, etc. are near the bottom of the CALAN page.
- Tickets may also be purchased at the door if the show is not sold out.
Note: Although WSWNE helped arrange and is supporting this concert, the concert is being produced by the MEETING HOUSE PRESENTS concert series at the Unitarian Meeting House, 50 Bloomfield Ave, Hartford, CT
The Welsh Society of Western New England will be serving traditional Welsh cakes during intermission with the generous support of member, and Welsh-born, Helen Coates of the Copper Kettle Bakery copperkettlebakery.com.
COVID protocol
The concert venue, Meeting House Presents, is at the Unitarian Society of Hartford. Their Covid policy is on their website. www. ushartford.com
About CALAN
The Wales-based group Calan’s music has ancient roots and, while untraditionally traditional, they also raise the international profile of traditional Welsh music. Get used to this: Accordion, Fiddle, Pipes, Harp, and the percussive sound of Clogs are the new Guitar, Bass, and Drums.
To date, Calan has gone from busking in the streets of Cardiff to introducing Welsh traditional music to curious music fans in the UK, Belgium, Italy, France, and on several tours of North America, playing festival shows on huge stages to tens-of-thousands, as well as at local folk club shows, unrestricted by sound systems, while standing on tables and jumping off chairs.
The musicians making these old sounds new, blasting their way through the old reels, jigs and hornpipes, include Calan vocalist, accordionist, and wearer of the clogs, Bethan Williams-Jones, who sings in both English and Welsh, learned her style of award-winning clog dancing from her father, who was also a champion. Plus Patrick Rimes (Fiddle, Whistle, Pipes) and Sam Humphreys (Guitar), Rimes was a junior Celtic Welsh fiddle champion for three years running. Humphreys started out playing electronic pop and rock music before discovering the magic mix of folk and modern styles he brings to Calan. Rounding out Calan is Shelley Musker Turner on Harp, who studied the harp starting at the age of seven, (Solomon – Sain Records)