2013 has been an amazing year for Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita. Winners of the prestigious FRoots Album Of The Year for their debut album ‘Clychau Dibon’ nominated for two BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for Best Duo and Best Traditional Track and featured in Songlines Magazine top ten albums of 2013, the sky is indeed the limit for this fearless pair of virtuoso musicians whose 'heavenly music...intricately realised' [Songlines Magazine] and infectious onstage chemistry defies categorisation and continues to merge the boundaries between the genres of classical, world, folk and traditional music.
The harp occupies a vital place in the incredibly rich cultures of both West Africa and Wales and, remarkably, both nations share a centuries-old bardic tradition of intricate oral history, expressed through music, song and verse. Together, Finch and Keita have risen to the tough challenge of blending two completely different musical cultures and creating something coherent, relevant and entirely new.
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