Cerys Hafana at Corris Uchaf
Folk on Foot
Matthew Bannister
4.8 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The latest album from Welsh triple harpist Cerys Hafana is called “Angel”. It’s inspired by the story of an old man who goes for a walk in the forest and hears an angel singing so beautifully it makes him fall asleep for three hundred and fifty years. That’s almost what happened to me on our glorious summer walk with Cerys near Corris Uchaf in mid Wales. We stumbled across a strange concrete replica of an Italian village, found the remains of disused mines and sat by tumbling streams to experience the subtle beauty of their singing and playing.
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| 1:04.1 | So thank you and enjoy the walk. |
| 1:07.9 | The sun is beating down and we're in mid-wales on a July morning. We're here to meet the harpist |
| 1:14.3 | and multi-instrumentalist Karis Havana who's bursting onto the folk scene by taking ancient and |
| 1:20.2 | traditional Welsh melodies and songs and recreating them for a modern audience. We're going to go for a |
| 1:26.3 | walk with them in the hills. We're going to see the old quarries and slate mines. |
| 1:30.3 | And above all, we're going to hear their beautiful music |
| 1:33.3 | in this glorious setting. |
| 1:35.3 | Music Keros, good morning. How lovely to see you. Good morning. Nice to see you too. |
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