Calan 23 June 2018

Calan are a Welsh band playing traditional and folky music. I saw them a couple of years ago in our village hall under a subsidised scheme and here they were at Catbrook Village Hall. They are seriously good musicians: Angharad Jenkins on fiddle, Alice French on harp, Sam Humprhys on guitar, Patrick Rimes on fiddle, bagpipes etc and Bethan Rhiannon on accordion, vocals and clog dancing. The clog dancing is a real highlight and we had three examples during the show. The other stand out for me is the harp playing and it is a great instrument that gives some Welsh ambiance to the sound. They played a lot of stuff off the recent album 'solomon' and I particularly loved 'The Lullabies' but actually it was all good music and a great atmosphere.