After a headline appearance at Somerset’s first Frome Folk Festival, award-winning all-male Welsh band Jamie Smith’s Mabon (JSM) will be taking their high energy InterCeltic music to arts centres, village and town halls across England and Wales.
The prodigiously talented Jamie Smith’s Mabon (JSM) are fast making their unique and vibrant mark on the roots scene, led by tunesmeister and accordionist extraordinaire Jamie Smith. Last year Mabon scooped the coveted Best Instrumental Album title (for their Porthcawl-recorded Live at the Grand Pavilion) in the 2011 Spiral Awards, run by top music website Spiral Earth – an album that captures all the energy and pizzazz of their acclaimed live show and includes a free bonus DVD.
The spring tour sets the scene for 2012 - a year that will see the release of a new album including the band’s first recorded songs - and several UK and European festival appearances.
The tour opens at The Stables, Milton Keynes and takes in other English dates in Reading, Bridgwater, Winchester, Bristol, Norwich and Cockermouth and Welsh shows (all part of the Night Out community touring scheme run by the Arts Council of Wales) in Powys, Caerleon and Solva in Pembrokeshire.
2011 was a significant and successful year for JSM. Highlights included a triumphant debut at the world’s largest winter music festival – Celtic Connections – as well as their WOMAD debut on the BBC Radio 3 stage, and many memorable performances including Fylde Festival, Priddy Festival, Llangollen International Eisteddfod, Carmarthenshire’s Small Nations Festival, Cardiff’s St.David’s Hall and Bristol’s Colston Hall for the returning Bristol Folk Festival and the Schumacher Festival’s Small World concert. See the band in action at Priddy Festival:
Tour Dates in MARCH:
Tuesday 6 The Stables, Wavendon, Milton Keynes
Thursday 8 South Street Arts Centre, Reading
Friday 9 Llanbedr Village Hall, Powys
Saturday 10 Solva Memorial Hall, Pembrokeshire
Friday 16 Bridgwater Arts Centre
Saturday 17 Discovery Centre, Winchester
Sunday 18 The Thunderbolt, Bristol
Wednesday 21 Norwich Arts Centre
Friday 23 Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth
Saturday 24 Town Hall, Caerleon
Published on 14 February 2012 by Wayne Feltham
Frome Folk Festival 2012 Jamie Smith's Mabon
