Angharad Jenkins
Musician and Project Manager in Wales, United Kingdom
Angharad Jenkins is a musician, performer, composer, workshop leader and project manager.
She was born in 1986 and brought up in the seaside village of Mumbles, near Swansea. She followed Welsh medium education at Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr, in Gowerton before studying music at Oxford Brookes University, where she graduated in 2008 with a first class honours degree.
It was during her time in Oxford she began her career as a performing musician with the indie-folk outfit the Joe Allen Band.
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 also plays in a duo with her mother, the harpist Delyth Jenkins and perform under the name DnA. Their debut album Adnabod, which was released on fflach:tradd in 2013 was shortlisted for Albwm Cymraeg y Flwyddyn, (the Welsh Album of the Year award).
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. She also founded the residential youth folk course Gwerin Gwallgo in 2014 which she now manages on a freelance basis for trac.