Julie Murphy

Our next musical evening will be with the amazing Julie Murphy 

on Saturday 25th April 2026, 7.30pm
Tickets on sale at Siop Ffab, Llandysul or on the door (cash only)

An intimate solo performance by singer Julie Murphy which explores the natural voice as an instrument in itself through folk song, art song, poetry and personal compositions.

Sung mainly unaccompanied, with the occasional touch of the shruti and fiddle, there are folk songs from Essex, Ceredigion, Kentucky, Galway, Sussex, Ramallah.

Julie says, "folk songs are like birds, they fly where they please and drop seeds where they go."

The songs are interwoven with poems by Thomas Hardy and A.E Houseman, set by Britten and Vaughan Williams, and her own settings of Charles Causley's poems.

Born in London, and brought up in Essex, Julie has traveled extensively with her music, both individually and with fernhill, the experimental group she formed in 1996. She has lived in the Teifi valley with her husband, Ceri Rhys Matthews since 1992.

Over the years she has collaborated and recorded with musicians from a wide range of genres including John Cale, Robert Plant, Danny Thompson, Ayub Ogada from Kenya and the early music group Sinfonye.

Her forty year artistic journey was recently marked by a limited edition double vinyl album called Retrospective.
www.juliemurphymusic.com


"A towering talent both in traditional music and as a singer songwriter. She possesses a voice of stark, spectral beauty that recalls Shirley Collins and Sandy Denny."