The Welsh Music Prize is an annual music prize awarded for the best album from Wales, as voted for by members of the music industry. It was founded by...
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The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album released by a musical act from the United...
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October – Welsh rapper Lemfreck wins the 2024 Welsh Music Prize for his album Blood, Sweat and Fears. 11 October – Coldplay's 10th album, Moon Music, enters...
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Adwaith (category Welsh rock music groups)
Melyn in 2018. Both Melyn and its follow-up Bato Mato (2022) won Welsh Music Prize awarded for the best album from Wales, making Adwaith the first act...
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Gwenno Saunders (category CS1 Welsh-language sources (cy))
is a Welsh-Cornish musician, known mononymously as Gwenno. She has released three critically acclaimed albums as a solo artist: Welsh Music Prize winner...
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Carwyn Ellis (category Welsh-language singers)
Ellis formed the Welsh folk group Bendith and their self-titled album was nominated for the Welsh Music Prize and went on to win the Welsh Language Album...
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The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (Welsh: Coleg Brenhinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru) is a conservatoire located in Cardiff, Wales. It includes three...
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Gruff Rhys (category Pages with Welsh IPA)
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...
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subsequently contacted by the band. The Balcony has been nominated for the Welsh Music Prize 2014–15. As the band's second album The Ride was releasing, it was...
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Cool Cymru (category Welsh-language music)
Cool Cymru (Welsh: Cŵl Cymru) was a Welsh cultural movement in music and independent film in the 1990s and 2000s, led by the popularity of bands such as...
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Me One (category Welsh people of Jamaican descent)
Innovation Music. In September 2024, it was announced that Martin would receive the Welsh Music Inspiration award at the annual Welsh Music Prize. He now...
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7 September – The 2023 Mercury Prize is awarded at London's Hammersmith Apollo. 10 October – The 2023 Welsh Music Prize is awarded at a ceremony in Cardiff's...
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States and Canada. In August 2012, the album shortlisted for the 2012 Welsh Music Prize. The album's pre-release bundle featured the CD, a digital download...
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The Independent, Dork and Upset Magazine. It was nominated for the Welsh Music Prize in October 2019. Estrons announced their debut album, You Say I'm...
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2015 in Wales (section Welsh Awards)
Welsh in the Old West Meic Stephens - My Shoulder to the Wheel Zonia Bowen – Dy bobl di fydd fy mhobl i Jerry Hunter – Y Fro Dywyll Welsh Music Prize...
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and music. He has also written prose, including his poetry collection Tarantula (1971) and his memoirs Chronicles: Volume One (2004). The Nobel Prize committee...
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Sweet Baboo (category Alumni of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama)
first Welsh Music Prize in 2011. Sweet Baboo launched single "Let's Go Swimming Wild" in 2012 as a free download. After winning BBC Radio 6 Music's "Rebel...
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Albums of the Year, won HMV's Welsh Album of the Year, Best Newcomer at the PROG awards, and a nomination for Welsh Music Prize. Mojo described Davies as...
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H. Hawkline (category 21st-century Welsh male singers)
Bon. In September 2015, the album was nominated for the 2014-2015 Welsh Music Prize. Evans regularly plays guitar or bass guitar in Cate Le Bon and Sweet...
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2014 in Wales (section Welsh Awards)
Llen ar y Ddrama Gymraeg Cân i Gymru – Mirain Evans, Galw Amdanat Ti Welsh Music Prize – Joanna Gruesome, Weird Sister Euros Childs - Eilaaig Katherine Jenkins...
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Sŵnami (category Welsh pop music groups)
at the Welsh Y Selar music awards. The band's first album, Sŵnami, was nominated for the Welsh Music Prize in 2016 and was the winner of Welsh-Language...
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The Anchoress (musician) (category Welsh musicians)
Albums of the Year, won HMV's Welsh Album of the Year, Best Newcomer at the PROG awards, and a nomination for Welsh Music Prize. In July 2016, the Anchoress...
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In the Pink of Condition (category Articles with music ratings that need to be turned into prose)
Welsh musician H. Hawkline. It was released on 3 February 2015 under Heavenly Recordings. The album was nominated for the 2014-2015 Welsh Music Prize...
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called music of the tongue and string music was called music of the string ("Cerdd Dant"). The Welsh word "cerdd" can mean either poetry or music. When...
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Number one in the Transglobal World Music Charts for June 2018 2018: SOAR is nominated for the Welsh Music Prize 2018. 2018: SOAR wins Best Transregional...
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BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition (category BBC music awards)
1989 competition was particularly noteworthy with Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel winning the Lieder prize and Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky taking the...
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Cerys Hafana (category CS1 Welsh-language sources (cy))
Library of Wales. The album was shortlisted for the 2022-23 Welsh Music Prize and the Welsh-language album of the year. The Guardian named it one of the...
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2013 in Wales (section Welsh Awards)
"The 50 greatest Welsh films of all time". Daily Post. Retrieved 19 August 2019. Bryant, Ben (17 October 2013). "Welsh Music Prize awarded to harpist...
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Islet (band) (category Welsh indie rock groups)
wave, krautrock and post-punk. They have been shortlisted for the Welsh Music Prize twice: in 2012, for Illuminated People, and in 2020, for Eyelet. Islet...
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Georgia Ruth (category Welsh harpists)
show. Week of Pines was awarded the 2013 Welsh Music Prize. Williams was nominated for the Horizon Music Prize in the 2014 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Her...
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