Upstairs at the Chapel – AL LEWIS featuring special guest LUCY RIVERS – Friday 30th May 2025, 8pm

This spring will see Al Lewis embark on a unique tour in partnership with Transport for Wales; visiting towns and cities all along Wales’ stunning rail network. Al will not only experience new parts of the country, but also practise a more environmental and social approach to touring and show how musicians can do their bit to help reduce our combined carbon footprint. He will be bringing his blend of Welsh and English language music to Abergavenny accompanied by Lucy Rivers.

 Lucy Rivers is a composer, writer, actor, musician and co-founder of the multi-award-winning theatre company Gagglebabble, which specialises in gig-theatre. She recently composed the music and co-wrote the lyrics for GIN CRAZE! at Northampton Royal and Derngate.

Al’s most recent album ‘Fifteen Years‘ received significant airplay and widespread critical acclaim across the BBC network and from stations and publications across Europe and the US. It examined the universal themes of grief and healing through his own experience of finally beginning to come to terms with the loss of his father while hoping to help others in similar situations.

Al has released multiple albums, won Best Song + Album at the UK Americana Awards (as part of Lewis & Leigh) been nominated for the Welsh Music Prize, Welsh Language Album of the Year and the Welsh Folk Awards (for his seminal single ‘The Farmhouse’). His albums have all spent multiple weeks at #1 on the Welsh language charts. Al has performed at iconic events such as Glastonbury Festival, Nashville’s Americana Music Festival, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, Lorient Festival (Brittany) and Celtic Connections in Glasgow. His single based upon the Dylan Thomas story A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ was the first song sung partly in Welsh to make it onto the BBC Radio 2 playlist and has since been covered by artists as varied as Gary Barlow and John Owen Jones. His 2020 album Te yn y Grug (Tea in the Heather) was a choral-folk concept piece written initially for the musical of the same name and was performed at a sold-out concert at the 2019 Welsh National Eisteddfod.

ONLINE TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE