Folk Bands and Artists
Al Lewis
Cardiff
Al Lewis is an award winning bilingual singer/songwriter from Wales.
His music has gathered support and praise from eminent DJs, tastemakers and critics across the UK, Europe and beyond. He has so far released 8 albums, his solo debut ‘In the Wake’ was nominated for the Welsh Music Prize and his Welsh language albums have all spent multiple weeks at #1 on the Welsh Language Charts.
Al has performed at events such as Glastonbury, the Americana Music Festival in Nashville, Lorient Festival in Brittany, the Philadelphia Folk Festival and Celtic Connections in Glasgow.
This year Al released the album ´Fifteen Years´ including the song ´The Farmhouse´ which was nominated for ´Best Original Song´ at the 2023 Welsh Folk Awards.
Al’s single based upon the Dylan Thomas Christmas story, ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ was the first song partly sung in Welsh to make it onto the BBC Radio 2 playlist.
His last album ´Te yn y Grug´ (Tea in the Heather) was a concept choral-folk piece, material from which premiered as part of the hugely successful sell-out musical of the same name at the 2019 Welsh National Eisteddfod.
Al is also a fervent collaborator – in both the award-winning duo Lewis & Leigh - whose album Ghost came out to critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic and GLASLYN his project with soundscape artist Kayla Painter.
Genre: Americana,Folk / Rock,Singer-songwriter
