Angharad Jenkins is a musician, performer, composer, workshop leader and project manager.
Angharad is probably best known for playing the fiddle in the Welsh folk group Calan. The band have toured extensively around the UK, USA and mainland Europe. They have released three studio albums with Sain Records, Bling (2009), Jonah (2011) and Dinas (2014) which was nominated for the Welsh Music Prize in 2014. The band's fourth studio album is due for release in 2017.
Angharad is a musician on the Live Music Now scheme and has recently been commissioned, along with her band-mates in Calan, to write music for the children's story The King, the Cat and the Fiddle by Yehudi Menuhin and Christopher Hope. The band continue to perform the show around SEND schools, and are experienced with working with children with special and varying educational needs.
Angharad's other current musical projects include the electro-folk outfit Kaikrea, the all-girl fiddle trio Brethyn and the Swansea based rock band Broken Fires. She also works regularly as a session musician, and has presented programmes for BBC Radio Cymru.
During her time as Project Officer for trac: Music Traditions Wales (2011-2015) she managed numerous successful multi-artists projects including 10 in a Bus which was nominated for a 2014 National Lottery Award in the Best Arts Category, and the PRSf funded project Dros y Ffin/Beyond the Marches.
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