North Walian Artist ‘Mared’ aka Mared Williams releases stunning new ‘Lately’ single on the 5th of April 2024. Taken from forthcoming EP ‘Better late than never’ ‘Lately’ is a wonderfully intimate homage to the ‘Laurel Canyon’ attitudes of the early seventies.
Splitting her time between rural Wales and London, Mared’s music results in an intriguing blend of folk infused soul-pop. Deeply connected to her roots in Welsh folk but always seeking to combine with a new pace in the city.
Mared’s debut bilingual album, ‘Y Drefn’ was awarded Welsh Album of The Year in 2021. Since then, Mared released her EP ‘Something Worth Losing’, in 2022, co-written with producer Nate Williams in Beaumaris and has been supported by Radio Wales’ Welsh A list and BBC Radio Cymru and performed her originals with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and at Sony Hall in NYC.
Mared’s solo gigs are intimate and powerful when she plays for herself, but in keeping with the enormous flexibility of her vocals, the full band set up of 7 friends has sold outand brought joy to venues such as (London): Pizza Express Holborn, Greennote Music, (Wales): Clwb Ifor Bach, Pontio and many more.
Looking ahead to this year, following her new singles ‘pe bawn i’n rhydd’ (BBC Radio Wales’ Welsh A-list and Radio Cymru’s track of the week), and ‘lately;’ Mared is releasing an EP called ‘better late than never’ on the 10th of May 2024, and is in the process of recording a full band live album, consisting of both released and unreleased songs, supported by BBC Horizons Launchpad.
Her name is already on summer festival line-ups, such as Focus Wales in Wrexham and the North American Festival of Wales in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) and she’s looking forwards to growing her fanbase this year as new music is released.
