Cynefin

Touring with their new album “Shimli” due end of January ‘25.

Doors open 7pm - £12

Small World Theatre welcomes Cynefin a trio of musicians led by Welsh folk singer, researcher, grain grower and cultural historian Owen Shiers.

The forthcoming second album Shimli is the follow up to Dilyn Afon. Continuing in the vein of rooting his music firmly in the customs and cultural vernacular of Ceredigion, the album takes its title from the now obsolete West Walian practice of all night musical and poetic vigils which used to take place in mills and workshops. Drawing inspiration from folk song, the beirdd gwlad(folk poet) tradition – as well as living oral history and story, the album explores the intersection between music, poetry, food and the natural world. A personal dispatch from the struggle to preserve a language, culture and way of life, the album is a musical petition – a stake in the ground for the diverse and the disappearing in our age of homogenisation and mass amnesia.