Elinor BennettW
Elinor Bennett

Elinor Bennett, Lady Wigley, OBE is a Welsh harpist who has an international reputation as a soloist, master instructor, and founded the Harp College of Wales.

Huw BunfordW
Huw Bunford

Huw "Bunf" Bunford is a musician best known as the guitarist in Super Furry Animals.

John CaleW
John Cale

John Davies Cale, OBE is a Welsh musician, composer, singer, songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the American rock band the Velvet Underground. Over his six-decade career, Cale has worked in various styles across rock, drone, classical, avant-garde and electronic music.

Carreg LafarW
Carreg Lafar

Carreg Lafar is a contemporary traditional Welsh folk band. Formed in Cardiff by Rhian Evan-Jones, Antwn Owen-Hicks, James Rourke, Linda Owen Jones, and Simon O'Shea, Carreg Lafar means "a speaking stone", or "echo stone".

Euros ChildsW
Euros Childs

Euros Childs is a Welsh musician and songwriter, perhaps best known as the frontman for the band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and—as of January 2019—the keyboardist for Teenage Fanclub. His sister, violinist Megan Childs, was also a member of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, and their father Lynn played on some Gorky's recordings, most notably on Barafundle. Childs was born in Freshwater East, Pembrokeshire, and was educated at the Welsh-medium school Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Myrddin in Carmarthenshire.

Cowbois Rhos BotwnnogW
Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog

Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog are a folk band consisting of three brothers from Rhos Botwnnog, between the villages of Botwnnog and Llaniestyn on the Llyn Peninsula, Gwynedd, Wales and accompanying musicians and singers. They experiment with country, folk and rock music. Most of their lyrics are in Welsh.

Kizzy CrawfordW
Kizzy Crawford

Kizzy Meriel Crawford, known as Kizzy, is a Bajan-Welsh singer songwriter from Merthyr Tydfil, who sings in both English and Welsh, using traditional and modern sources.

DatblyguW
Datblygu

Datblygu are an experimental Welsh rock group formed in 1982. They are regarded as a catalyst of the new wave of Welsh rock in the early 1980s.

Elin FflurW
Elin Fflur

Elin Fflur Llewelyn Harvey, known professionally as Elin Fflur, is a Welsh singer-songwriter, television and radio presenter.

Catrin FinchW
Catrin Finch

Catrin Ana Finch is a Welsh harpist, arranger and composer. She was the Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales from 2000 to 2004 and is Visiting Professor at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and the Royal Academy of Music in London. Finch has given recitals at venues throughout the world.

Georgia RuthW
Georgia Ruth

Georgia Ruth Williams is a Welsh singer-songwriter and harpist. She sings in both English and Welsh.

Gwyneth GlynW
Gwyneth Glyn

Gwyneth Glyn is a Welsh language poet and musician.

H. HawklineW
H. Hawkline

Huw Evans, also known as H. Hawkline, is a Welsh singer-songwriter and radio and television presenter based in Cardiff. He also lived and worked in Los Angeles for several years. He performs in both English and Welsh.

James JamesW
James James

James James (1832–1902) was a harpist and musician from Hollybush blackwood, Wales. He composed the tune of the Welsh national anthem Hen Wlad fy Nhadau. Today, the same tune is also used for the Breton anthem, Bro Gozh ma Zadoù, and the Cornish anthem, Bro Goth agan Tasow.

Richard James (musician)W
Richard James (musician)

Richard James is a guitarist, bassist and singer-songwriter originally from Carmarthen, Wales. He was a founding member of the band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, who split up in 2006. He performs and records as a solo artist, and as part of the bands Pen Pastwn and Locus.

Siân James (musician)W
Siân James (musician)

Siân James is a Welsh traditional folk singer and harpist who has recorded for Sain and BBC Records as well as her own label, Bos.

Geraint JarmanW
Geraint Jarman

Geraint Jarman is an influential Welsh musician, poet and television producer whose career dates back to the early years of Welsh popular music. He has recorded many albums as a solo artist and with his band Geraint Jarman a'r Cynganeddwyr.

Edward Jones (harpist)W
Edward Jones (harpist)

Edward Jones was a Welsh harpist, bard, performer, composer, arranger, and collector of music. He was commonly known by the bardic name of "Bardd y Brenin", which he took in 1820, when King George IV, his patron, came to the throne.

Cate Le BonW
Cate Le Bon

Cate Le Bon is a Welsh musician and producer. She sings in both English and Welsh. She has released five solo albums, three EPs and a number of singles. Le Bon has toured with artists such as St. Vincent, Perfume Genius and John Grant.

Guto PryceW
Guto Pryce

Guto Dafydd Pryce is a musician best known as bass guitar player and songwriter in the band Super Furry Animals.

Iwan RheonW
Iwan Rheon

Iwan Rheon is a Welsh actor, singer, narrator, and musician. He is known for his portrayals of Simon Bellamy in E4's Misfits and Ramsay Bolton in HBO's Game of Thrones, as well as playing Mick Mars in the 2019 movie The Dirt based on Mötley Crüe. He has also appeared in Vicious, Riviera and Inhumans.

Gruff RhysW
Gruff Rhys

Gruffudd Maredudd Bowen Rhys is a Welsh musician, composer, producer, filmmaker and author. He performs solo and with several bands, including Super Furry Animals who obtained mainstream success in the 1990s. He formed the electro-pop outfit Neon Neon with Boom Bip. Their album Stainless Style was nominated for the 2008 Nationwide Mercury Prize. He won the 2011 Welsh Music Prize for his album Hotel Shampoo, which was followed up by American Interior in 2014, accompanied by a film, a book and a mobile app. His most recent albums Babelsberg and Pang were released in 2018 and 2019, respectively. He is considered a figurehead of the era known as Cool Cymru.

Caradog RobertsW
Caradog Roberts

Caradog Roberts was a Welsh composer, organist and choirmaster.

Gwenno SaundersW
Gwenno Saunders

Gwenno Mererid Saunders is a Cornish-Welsh musician, known by the stage name Gwenno. She performs as a solo artist, releasing her first album Y Dydd Olaf on Heavenly Recordings in 2015 followed by her first album in Cornish in 2018, entitled Le Kov. She was also a singer in the indie pop group the Pipettes.

Meic StevensW
Meic Stevens

Meic Stevens is a Welsh singer-songwriter often referred to as "the Welsh Dylan", who has been compared with Syd Barrett. Stevens's songs have a mystical, faintly psychedelic flavour, and are mostly sung in his native Welsh language. Still largely unknown outside Wales, he was discovered by DJ Jimmy Savile, who saw him performing in a Manchester folk club in 1965. This led to Stevens recording his first single – with arranger John Paul Jones – for Decca Records that same year, though it sold badly.

Gai TomsW
Gai Toms

Gareth 'Gai' J Thomas 'Toms' is a Welsh singer-songwriter, musician, producer and actor. In 1992 he co-formed the popular Welsh ska-rock band Anweledig, which developed into one of Wales' top live party bands. From 1997 to 2007 he created an 'off the road' Welsh folk outfit Mim Twm Llai, releasing three albums on Recordiau Sain. Since 2008, he dropped the Mim Twm Llai pseudonym for his own lifelong nickname Gai Toms, performing solo on guitar or with his backing band. His latest album titled 'Orig', based on the life of Welsh wrestling legend Orig Williams, gave us Gai Toms a'r Banditos.

TrwbadorW
Trwbador

Trwbador were a Welsh duo who occupied a place in the musical landscape between folk and techno. The two-piece resided in Carmarthenshire, although they began working together while at University in Newport. Trwbador's original sound has established them as a forerunner of the Welsh music scene.