Angharad

What an honour to have CJ Wagstaff write about my creative journey and split musical personas in this excellent piece for Nation.Cymru. Diolch 💖

🪩 “Angharad earns her colours whilst remaining authentically herself, further proof of her ability to both subvert and honour Welsh music traditions”

THANKS to Nation.Cymru for the fantastic feature on Angharad and all her diverse and vital musical projects 🙌

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https://nation.cymru/culture/song-and-story-angharad-jenkins/

Thank you Circuit Sweet for this review of ‘I Don’t Know How.’ Diolch x

🪞 Circuit Sweet have an unwavering ability to fully capture the truth behind the music. Thanks for such moving words in the review of Angharad latest single, the beautiful ‘I DON’T KNOW HOW’

“Angharad is back again with this fearless approach to accept themselves, to accept womanhood and the time that’s passed … This has been the year for Angharad, her sincerity comes to life through the music- the musician has this natural ability to provide connection within the tones, textures and the tales. Another affectionate arrangement that delivers the ultimate harmonic hook, the power of this ensemble blisters from start to finish”

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https://circuitsweet.co.uk/2023/10/angharad-releases-new-single-i-dont-know-how-out-now-via-libertino-single-special/

What a night! Am noson!
Diolch Elysium a Menter Iaith Abertawe x

I asked the Universe for fewer but better gigs. And the Universe listened.

Diolch ac . Roedd nos Sadwrn diwetha yn fendigedig.

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🪞Angharad latest single ‘I Don’t Know How’ has just finished three weeks on BBC Radio Wales A-LIST 🙌 You can also listen back via BBC Sounds to Angharad chatting to Adam Walton on the evening show when she was ‘Artist of the Week’ 💜 TONIGHT Angharad is playing a full band set in Elysium with Adwaith and Gillie ⭐️

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I’m of the opinion that Instagram should be a gallery rather than a notice-board, but I’m going to break that rule today to let you know about an important event this week.

On Saturday I’ll be performing my first and last full-band gig of the year in Swansea. We’ll be supporting at so - as expected - there’s a limited amount of tickets left. If you do intend on coming grab your tickets NOW, THIS MINUTE, don’t hang about because it WILL SELL OUT. And I’d love to see you there.

Plus, just wanted to mention it again, because it’s a big deal for me, but ‘I Don’t Know How’ has reached the Welsh A-List for the third consecutive week. As a new song-writer I’m amazed at how - in my mid-thirties - my music has taken this unexpected turn. I love hearing your comments about the track and how/when you heard it. It’s like a espresso shot after a sleepless night with a toddler. ☕️💥👊🏼

‘I Don’t Know How’ is about beauty, aging and time’s effects on the body. It’s about being happy in your own skin, and where you are on life’s trajectory.

It must be my age or my gender, but it’s a topic which comes up a lot in conversation at the moment.

Here are the lyrics.

It’s a self-reflective little number, but ‘I Don’t Know How’ has made it onto the Welsh A-List for a second week. Super chuffed with this support from and .

Even some of the parents on the school yard have told me they’ve heard the track on the radio. Does that make me a cool Mam?

Would love to know if you’ve heard it.

It’s been exciting hearing ‘I Don’t Know How’ across BBC Radio Wales this week. Thank you Adam, Bronwen, Behnaz, Bethan and any other presenters for championing my music. (You probably don’t realise quite how much of a boost it is to us song-writers to hear our music played on the air-waves!)

If you tuned in to Adam Walton’s show this week you would have heard me - as Artist of the Week (😳) - explaining that due to my current family circumstances, I can’t tour and make a living from music in the way I used to. So being championed and played on the radio is a more family-friendly way of reaching a new audience, thus enabling me to continue doing what I love doing. And I’m so unbelievably grateful.

The song is available to stream on all the usual platforms, or my following the link in my bio.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, what ever you are doing x

Today, I’m releasing my new single ‘Go For It!’ in memory of my father, the poet and writer Nigel Jenkins, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2014.

All proceeds will go to Pancreatic Cancer UK

https://fundraise.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/fundraisers/angharadjenkins/organise-your-fundraiser

Edrych ‘mlaen at cefnogi Adwaith yn yr Elysium ar y 18fed Tachwedd gyda Gillie hefyd.

Looking forward to supporting Adwaith at the Elysium, on the 18th November, with Gillie too.

🖤 Ar 18fed o Dachwedd fe fydd noson lansio sengl newydd Adwaith ‘Addo’ yn Elysium gyda Gillie a Angharad yn cefnogi 🙌

🖤 On the 18th November Adwaith will be having a release party in Elysium to celebrate their new single ‘Addo’, support comes from Gillie and Angharad 🙌

🎫 Tickets are flying out fast!! 🖤
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/live-music-adwaith-angharad-gillie-tickets-727353031497?aff=oddtdtcreator

Thank you & for featuring ‘I Don’t Know How’ as one of your Tracks of the Week.

Each time my music has been featured in I’m blown away by the quality of the writing, which - inevitably - elevates my own music. So thank you!!

Follow the link in the bio to hear the song if you haven’t heard it yet.

A-LISTED!

In slight disbelief, I’m thrilled to say that ‘I Don’t Know How’ has been chosen as BBC Radio Wales’s Welsh A-List this week!

And not only that, I’m ’s Artist of the Week too!

If you missed our chat this eve, don’t worry, because I’ll be back tomorrow AND on Wednesday between 9-10pm.

Very grateful for all the support and encouragement that come from opportunities like this. They really do mean the world. Diolch o galon bawb x

Huge thank you Bill for featuring new single 'I Don't Know How' in this week's described as 'Plaintive and heartfelt' the single is available now via 💥

Read the full article here 👇
godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2023/10/30/tra…

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Join Craig for the all new Welsh Connections Playlist Show on Oystermouth Radio from Monday 9pm UK time with tracks from Akimbo, Adwaith, Angharad (pictured), Ffion Wren, Part Time Signals, Achlysurol, Sian Richards, Sammie Soravia, Geraint Rhys, Rhys.live, Iwcadwli, Hen Fegin, Climbing Trees, Quiet Marauder plus this week’s new TRACK OF THE WEEK from Sylfaen ft. Alys Williams and the new Welsh Connections Playlist theme courtesy of the incredible Patrick Jones.

You really won't want to miss this!

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Thank you to Wales Arts Review for featuring ‘I Don’t Know How’ as Video of the Week!

The song is about the passing of time, and being happy in your own skin, and where you are on life’s trajectory. It features three girls at different stages of their lives. Those three girls are me, my daughter and my mother.

We spent a lovely couple of hours in the summer filimg this in the park opposite my daughter’s nursery. You have to be quick when working with a toddler!

I’m so grateful to Laurentina Miksys for being open to the challenge of filming and editing this video. This is the first video she’s ever produced! She is the true artist behind the making of this video.

You can read all about it and watch the video in full here:

'I Don't Know' By Angharad: Video of the Week This is Video of the Week from Wales Arts Review. Today’s video is ‘the new single 'I Don't Know' by Angharad.

If you’re at this weekend, consider coming to see us at:

1) 7:15 today at Mwldan 2
2) 8:15 tomorrow at The Cellar Bar

You won’t have seen us before, because we’ve never played as a full band. But I can assure you - at the very least - it will be a memorable performance.

Playing this music live with a full band is a vision that’s held a residency in my mind for a good few years now, so I’m thrilled, and somewhat relieved that it’s actually happening!

And let’s be honest, there’s also part of me that’s looking forward to having a couple of days away from the kids, staying in a hotel, waking up naturally on my own accord, and enjoying some of the other great artists on this line up.

Enjoying a pint and a meal in peace or over some stimulating adult conversation will also be very welcome. See you there!

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On Friday, my latest musical offering was unleashed into the wild. Whilst it’s pretty different to my previous releases, my songwriting intention remains the same, and that is to be open, honest and truthful. You can hear the song here: https://orcd.co/angharadidkh

As with everything, it’s been a collective effort. I wish to acknowledge and thank all these wonderful humans who have bought this music to life.

Keys: Michael Blanchfield
Kit: Alex Burch
Guitar: John Close
Bass, arranging, producing and BVs: Aeddan Williams
Strings: Jordan Price-Williams, Aneirin Jones, Haz Thomas and me

Engineering and mixing: Sam Barnes

Mastering: Charlie Francis

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⏰ ‘I DON’T KNOW HOW’ by Angharad will be out tomorrow. This is one of our favourite songs from her debut album, a beautiful pop gem 💎 reflecting on life and aging, melancholic yet uplifting musically.

“This is my acceptance song. Accepting aging and time’s effects on the body. It’s about being happy in your own skin, and where you are on life’s trajectory” - Angharad

I’m not sure if these artists truly appreciate what a thrill, joy, and honour it is to have your performance captured on paper like this.

There’s a real likeness in sketches, and work bursts with energy.

Nice touch for bringing different art forms together throughout the festival. Diolch i galon bawb x

Noson hudolus. Magical night. Diolch bawb x

Absolutely packed out for tonight’s exhibition launches! Next up is and performing live into the night

A few words ahead of Friday….

Exhibition opens: 7pm
Music starts: 8pm (I’ll be playing for about 45 minutes, then we welcome the brilliant Dark and Twisties Music )

As with everything I do these days, come with an open heart and mind, and we’ll have a magical night. ✨

Ambell i air cyn nos Wener…

Arddangosfa yn agor am 7pm
Cerddoriaeth yn dechrau am 8pm (fydda i’n chwarae am tua 45 munud cyn i ni groesawu’r Dark and Twisties)

Fel popeth dwi’n neud dyddie ‘ma, dewch gyda meddwl a chalon agored, ac fe gewn ni noson hudolus. ✨

I’ve been plotting something. It’s the final piece of the jig-saw for the Opening Night of the Motherland Exhibition at Elysium on 22nd September. It’s a request, a call out…see below for details then DM if interested.

It should be fun, and better than being glued to the sofa. Diolch x

Very much looking forward to the opening night of ‘Motherland’ on Friday 22nd September at the Elysium Gallery, Swansea. Come and view Laurentina Miksys’s wonderful photographs, Jamie Panton - Video Services’s music videos, and I’ll be performing a stripped back set with Frazer MacIntosh on keys, followed by more music by local supergroup Dark and Twisties . And there’s one other piece of performance art in preperation too… to be revealved!

Edrych ‘mlaen i whare yn Ngŵyl Ymylol Abertawe!
Looking forward to playing at The Swansea Fringe!

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Swansea Fringe proudly presents our next list of acts for this years celebrations of everything music, art, comedy and poetry!

Come join the fun from October 5th-7th🎶

Get your tickets! Only available from Ticket247

Angharad Mali Hâf SPIT HOOD Baby Schillaci The Rusty Nutz Nookee Only Fools and Corpses Kneeon The Boneless Ones SHLUG CELAVI Frakard Atlas Theory Aisha Kigs Part Time Signals Dead Noize Monet Peter Thabit Jones Bad Shout Kikker Brecon Gallops

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Just hanging out here to let you know of a very special gig I have coming up on 22nd Sept at .

To coincide with the launch of ’s photography exhibition, I will be performing a stripped back set of the music that insipred her images.

Art inspires music inspires words inspires art inspires… etc. ♻️

Come and see what I mean.

Exhibition opening 7pm
Music from 8pm

Joining me on keys is the incredible . Plus can’t wait to hear Swansea super-group . It’s going to be an evening of creative nourishment. Dewch draw✨

First EVER outing!

Dydd Mercher 16eg Awst -
Wednesday 16th August
18:45

📍The Settlement, Acoustic Stage, Green Man Festival

This will be a stripped back, intimate set with the brilliant Michael Blanchfield on keys. As it’s just the two of us it will be quite different to the full band production.

Expect some storytelling, word painting, spoken word and singalong tunes. The only prerequisite is to come along with an open heart and mind. It’s going to be fun. See you there! X

It’s amazing what a bit of manifesting can do. Can’t believe that my first FULL BAND performance will be at . I remember watching this festival on tv last year when I was glued to the sofa feeding my baby, feeling like I’ll never perform again. What a difference a year makes. And what a line-up!
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Mae’n bleser anferth i mi gyhoddi bod gig cyntaf gyda’r BAND LLAWN yn , Aberteifi. Ac mae’r lineup yn hollol wych.

It’s World Breastfeeding Week 2023 and what better way to kick start this seven-day long celebration than with a band new episode of Dr Tracy Breathnach PhD podcast, Afterbirth.

I joined Tracy in conversation a couple of weeks ago following the release of my latest single ‘Postpartum,’ which – if you’ve not heard it yet – is quite an ice-breaker!

We talk about the identity-shattering experience of becoming a mother and the incredible impact of music and singing on babies brains.

Tracy’s podcast is educational, enlightening and comforting. I highly recommend delving into her other conversations.

Listen via the link below or by searching ‘Afterbirth’ on your favourite podcast platform:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1930427/13323221-5-angharad-jenkins.mp3?download=true

Delighted to announce - with some disbelief - that my first ever live performance of this new material will be on the Settlement Stage at Green Man Festival on Wednesday 16th August.

I love this festival. I’ve attended over the years as both a punter and a performer.

When I started dreaming of an audience for this music, I made a list of all the stages, radio programmes, magazines and newspapers I wished to be featured on. Greenman was firmly on that list.

I’m not sure if it’s because I’m a Mam to a 4 year old who believes in unicorns and fairies, but I’m slowing starting to believe in magic. Keep dreaming and manifesting, and sure enough, one day your dreams will come true.

Diolchiadau ENFAWR of course goes out to Libertino for curating such a delicious programme of music.

Who will be settling in and joining me in this beautiful corner of the Bannau Brycheiniog then?

Thrilled that ‘Because I am a Woman’ is in Postcards From The Underground’s top releases of 2023 so far. It really means the 🌍

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It fills me with the greatest sadness that so many women feel they have to hide their pregnancies and their children to progress in their careers. I hear about it all the time, through friends and colleagues.

As the daughter of a musician, I’ve known all too well about the impact children can have on a musician’s career. I’ve been acutely aware of it, feared it in fact, even before I was ready to have children myself.

But rather than shy away from the fact I want a career in music AND have children, I’m facing it front on, and using my new found voice to tell the world about it.

I don’t care if you chose not to book me for a festival, a recording session or a creative collaboration, because these things need to be heard. It means far more to me to speak of my experiences, than losing out on some work.

I hope, perhpas, some of this musical material may help raise awareness, change and improve life for future generations of mother-musicians, and other creative freelancers. This is how we start making a more diverse and fairer society, right?

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It happened! Out of nowhere, last night I got a message from a dear friend of mine to tell me that ‘Postpartum’ was on .

Yes! I can tick that off the bucket list. And what’s more it’s a song about breastfeeding and early motherhood.

Have you ever heard songs about these topics on the radio before? I certainly haven’t… but it’s time we did! These experiences are so real and common for so many of us, it’s part of LIFE ffs, yet because it’s deemed ‘uncool’ it’s just not brought up in popular song. I want to change that.

If you can relate to this, let me know. If you’d like to hear your experiences as a mother on the airwaves, let me know. I kinda want to start a revolution!

Dechrau chwyldro ar fore dydd Mawrth, beth amdani ferched?!

Thank you Tom Ravenscroft and DJ Deb Grant for the play and the PERFECT pronunciation. 👌🏼 Listen again to New Music Fix, 1:42 into the show.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001n0bh?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Granted, ‘Postpartum’ was never going to be a popular radio hit, but just check some of the praise the track’s been receiving. It’s enough to make a hormonal mother cry:

🍼 “Postpartum smashes the pink n fluffy romaticised myths around motherhood and exposes them instead, red and raw and dripping in hot painful detail.”

🍼 “Electrifying and dominant, you will be moved by this rebellious and challenging creation.”

🍼 “A propulsive and sonic exploration into the unspoken realities of childbirth and early motherhood… Angharad’s unapologetic approach sets the stage for a thought-provoking and enlightening listening experience.”

🍼 “There are images on that song you will never forget. It’s fantastic. Singing about a subject that’s infrequently covered in popularsong, which makes it all the more effective. What an incredible arrangement and delivery too.”

Every single review means the absolute 🌎. Diolch o’r galon.x

As we take these photos, my six-month old son is screaming on the floor the other side of the bath tub. I’m an anxious mess, chronically sleep-deprived, my nervous-system on overdrive.

Suberged by the warm, milky waters, my baby’s cries become a muffled haze, and for a few moments I let the warm milk envelope my tired body and mind.

Laurentina, is looking down above me, with a camera in her hand. She snaps away between entertaining the baby, and swinging him up in the car seat to me. I sit up briefly, smile and distract him with a song, before returning to the job in hand. We work quickly.

We are both mothers, and both in persuit of a life of art and self-expression. We find it hard. But we are compelled to do it.

We want to be the voice for mothers. We are striving to be mother-artists, and we are doing everything can.

When we come together, as a community of creatives, of mothers, that’s when our voice is strongest. Our story is of love and pain, and it isn’t often heard. But, here we are.

Those difficult emotions, can be heard in ‘Postpartum.’ Now available to stream everywhere.

📸 Laurentina Miksys