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upfront Festival Of Voice


After the third edition of this Cardiff aural extravaganza had to be cancelled for 2020, Festival Of Voice are back on track with a four-day programme of musical icons and stars-to-be alike. Noel Gardner offers a summary and profiles 10 names on the lineup.


The team behind Festival Of Voice, an innovative large-scale celebration of music which launched in Cardiff five years ago, found it necessary to recalibrate as the cursed 2020 has trickled into the marginally more pleasant ‘21. Thinking on their feet, there have in fact been two distinct spins to the FOV model this calendar year, with the second set to take place at the start of November and form a significant part of the comeback of live concerts in Wales.


Though the event’s scheduled return for November 2020, with Cate Le Bon enlisted to curate the lineup, was scrubbed from diaries well in advance, Cate appeared on the bill of Gŵyl 2021 in March. This was a digital festival featuring a few dozen performances – mostly


music with a sprinkling of standup – filmed in otherwise empty Welsh venues, with Cardiff Bay’s Wales Millennium Centre featuring heavily. (Gŵyl was programmed in conjunction with Wrexham’s FOCUS Wales, Aberystwyth Comedy Fest and Other Voices Cardigan; the first two of those return in person for early October.)


The WMC will be the exclusive location for November’s Festival Of Voice, which runs across four days and arranges its programme into a quartet of eclectic-but-complementary bills. Some acts are, let’s say, homegrown favourites; others have visited before, though one can expect absence to have made the heart grow fonder; others make their Welsh debut.


The size and scope of the Wales Millennium Centre looks like it’ll lend help in making FOV impressive. According to Graeme Farrow, artistic director of both venue and festival, “these events will be held on the Donald Gordon Theatre stage, with the audience on stage too.” The building’s many other rooms and pockets will also host live performances, DJ sets and extra food and drink outlets, while Welsh playwright and theatre producer Bethan Marlow has worked with Valleys-based youths and youth workers on what is intriguingly described as “a series of creative interventions”. Hopefully these will form one of many surprises 2021’s Festival Of Voice has in store.


Festival Of Voice – Gruff Rhys Thurs 4 Nov:


Max Richter & Sinfonia Cymru; Kelsey Lu; Colin Currie Group & Synergy / Brian Eno (keynote address)


Fri 5 Nov: Hot Chip; Tricky; Rachel Chinouriri; Juice Menace


Sat 6 Nov:


Gruff Rhys; Biig Piig; Anna Meredith; Sprints; Nuha Ruby Ra; Charlotte Church’s Late Night Pop Dungeon (afterparty)


FESTIVAL OF VOICE Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay, Thurs 4-Sun 7 Nov. Tickets: £45 Thurs 4 + Sun 7; £55 Fri 5 + Sat 6. 029 2063 6464 / wmc.org.uk/festival-of-voice


10 Sun 7 Nov:


Arab Strap; Ghostpoet; Roger Eno; Stella Chi- weshe; Ani Glass


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