Other Voices Cardigan festival 2025 announces headliners
The sixth edition of the festival will see more than 100 live performances across Cardigan, with every corner of the town—cafés, chapels, bars, bakeries and community spaces—coming alive with music.
Philip King, founder of Other Voices, said: "We always look forward to bringing Other Voices to Aberteifi/Cardigan and our 2025 programme will highlight the abundant and diverse range of brilliant new music that is flowing out of Ireland and Wales today.
"This year's Clebran series of trilingual conversations will look at big picture issues through the lens of the local, with a perspective that reflects the shared as well as the many distinct identities in Ireland and Wales that we celebrate here through our languages and music.
"With our partners at Mwldan and Triongl, we are grateful for the opportunity to play our part in deepening and strengthening our Ireland-Wales connections as envisaged by our two Governments in the Ireland-Wales Shared Statement and Joint Action Plan 2021-25.
"We look forward to seeing Other Voices/Lleisiau Eraill continuing to grow and flourish in the coming years."
This year's first church headliners include Westside Cowboy, six-time RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Award winners Ye Vagabonds, and Welsh musician Gruff Rhys, who will be performing material from his upcoming album Dim Probs, set for release in September.
All St Mary's Church performances will be streamed live on the Other Voices YouTube channel.
More than 50 acts will perform throughout the weekend, with BBC broadcaster Huw Stephens returning as host.
Newly announced acts include Afrocluster, Annie-Dog, Basht, Carys Eleri, Clare Sands, Dewin, Dionne Bennett, Internet Fatigue, George Houston, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver, Lullahush, Meabh McKenna, Meryl Streak, Nancy Williams, Piaras O'Lorcain, Súil Amhain, Sexy Tadhg, Sustinere, and VRï.
Other Voices Cardigan is produced by South Wind Blows in partnership with Mwldan and Triongl, with support from the Welsh Government, Ceredigion County Council, the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, and BBC Cymru Wales.
The festival will be filmed for future television broadcast on BBC Cymru Wales, RTÉ, BBC iPlayer, and RTÉ Player.
Dilwyn Davies, CEO of Mwldan, said: "We're utterly delighted to be able to bring the fifth physical edition of Other Voices to Aberteifi in 2025.
"Year on year, we've seen fantastic growth in audience numbers as the word has spread about what a special festival experience this is.
"We're ready to welcome audiences and artists from Ireland, Wales and elsewhere to our gorgeous small town on the westerly edge of Wales to create and share some unforgettable magic.
"We're also deeply indebted to our funders for supporting this fantastic event."
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