Non Fiction

Noteworthy: Images of Welsh Music

Bruce Cardwell

Category: Art and Photography, Non Fiction

Number of pages: 144

ISBN: 9781854115409

Publication date: April 4, 2011

Price: £14.99

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Noteworthy is one man’s view of the acoustic music scene in Wales, illustrated with black and white photography to present the musicians in context in their surroundings.
Practitioners of acoustic music in Wales at the start of the twenty-first century make a rich and diverse gallery of talent. The subjects of these photographs include harpists, pipers, hurdy gurdy players, fiddlers, guitarists, drummers and singers. Folk, jazz. blue grass, classical, silver and steel band, even klezmer and early English are among the various styles represented.
All musical life is gathered in these portraits and reportage images, and accompanying interviews, which together make an atmospheric survey of musicianship and music making at a particular point in time in a small country on the western seaboard of Europe, internationally acclaimed for its musical heritage.
 

Black and white photograph of Bruce Cardwell, a white man with short hair and a moustache. He is at an exhibition and is smiling at the camera holding a glass of wine. He is wearing a checked shirt.
Bruce Cardwell

Bruce Cardwell is a folk musician and photographer living in West Wales. He has travelled across Wales, Britain, Ireland and Europe performing and his photographs are collected by the National Library of Wales.

He is the author of Hoofpicks: Photographs of the Horse in Wales (2009), Noteworthy: Images of Welsh Music (2011) and The Harp in Wales (2013).

A Hardy Breed: Sheep Farming in Wales was published in July 2023.

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