A month of music at local libraries

Residents across the Caerphilly county borough are in for a musical treat throughout October when Caerphilly Library Service hosts FREE concerts at several libraries.

Guitarist Chris Moreton is performing at Newbridge library at 11.00am on 06th October and then Oakdale Library at 2.30pm. Chris is widely recognised as one of the UK's leading exponents of the flat-picked guitar technique and one of the most famous faces in British Bluegrass music. Chris's performances feature a variety of songs, audience participation, anecdotes and arrangements of Celtic, Appalation and Texas fiddle tunes. He will also feature classical pieces by Handel and Mozart and self-written material on guitar, banjo and mandolin.

Tom McConville, the Newcastle Fiddler will perform at 2.15pm at Abertridwr Library on 13th October and the following day 14th October at Llanbradach Library at 2.15pm. Described as having scintillating fiddle skills, a silky smooth voice, a wide grin and a dry Geordie wit, audiences are in for a real treat when the Musician of the Year in the BBC Folk awards 2009 performs his one-man show.

The unique acoustic magic of 'Ember' will be performing at New Tredegar's White Rose Information and Resource Centre at 10.45am on 19th October. 'Ember' have delighted audiences all over the world as the simple, yet moving music centres around the miraculous blending of two very different voices: that of Welsh songstress Emily Williams, playing her nylon-strung guitar, and Rebecca Sullivan of Utah who fingerpicks a sparkling steel-string, and also breaks out the harmonica for a song or two.

All concerts are FREE and everyone is welcome. Please contact the individual libraries for more details.