LLEUWEN Steffan will perform at Theatr Felinfach in Ceredigion as part of a series of acoustic concerts.

Her album ‘Tân’ was awarded Album of the Year for France’s FR3 Awards in 2011. It was also nominated for the Welsh Music Prize in the same year. Lleuwen has also won ‘Liet International’ for one of her Breton language songs in 2012.

This will be the first time Lleuwen has performed at Theatr Felinfach. She’s a singer, songwriter and guitarist from the Ogwen Valley in Wales, but now lives in Brittany and is keen to share her new songs before releasing them on an album. There’ll be opportunities to hear the odd hymn and folk song as well as her original songs.

Lleuwen’s musical style ranges from airy folk, gentle blues and up-tempo jazz to a kind of cabaret, dramatic pop and she enchants audiences with compositions sung mainly in Welsh and English.

Her first CD ‘God Only Knows’, is a collaboration with Welsh pianist Huw Warren and was released on the Babel label in 2005. The album was a reinterpretation of Welsh revivalist hymns for the twenty first century, which featured in The Observer’s Top 20 Albums and was described by critic Stuart Nicholson as 'The most unusual, strangely beautiful album that you're likely to hear.'

Her album ‘Penmon’ on the Sain label released in 2007 reflects the natural ebb and flow of the Welsh landscape presented through a unique fusion of jazz and folk.

Lleuwen Steffan was raised to the sound of words and music, being the daughter of singer-composer Steve Eaves, and she sang on some of his recordings as a young girl.

She also gained valuable experience at Ysgol Glanaethwy, the performing school at Bangor renowned for its choirs, but Lleuwen was always keen to broaden her musical horizons and develop her own unique voice.

Tickets for the event on Friday, May 26, are available from the Box Office on 01570 470697 or go online to www.theatrfelinfach.wales