Noteworthy: Images of Welsh Music

Music makers are the focus of Bruce Cardwell latest book of black and white reportage and portrait photography. Practitioners of acoustic and vocal music - folk, gospel, opera, choral, classical and ethnic - in Wales as the start of the twenty first century make a rich and diverse gallery of talent. Cardwell’s subjects range from harpists Catrin Finch and Elinor Bennett, through Bryn Terfel, conductor Owain Arwel Hughes and Incredible String Band songwriter Robin Williamson to Welsh bagpipers, hurdy gurdy players, harpmakers, and African drummers in Newbridge and steel bands in Carmarthen. All musical life is here and the resulting book is an atmospheric group portrait musicianship at this particular point in time which will e facinating to followers of music and photography alike.