Gwenno Brings Her Utopia to Cardiff’s New Theatre

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The year was 1979 when Jacques Mahul, an engineer with a love for music and hi-fi, founded Focal as a manufacturer of what would become a vast array of musical transducers for professional studios, vehicles, boats, outdoor spaces, and indoor domestic environments. Their domestic speaker models today span from affordable speakers for less than $2,000 per pair to all-out assaults on the state of the art for around $280,000 per pair. Focal is also …

Gwenno Brings Her Utopia to Cardiff’s New Theatre

Forty-three years into her life, Gwenno Saunders has been many people. The disaffected Cardiff schoolgirl; the teenage Las Vegas dancer; the singer in indie pop group The Pipettes. There was a turn in a Bollywood film, a nightclub tour, a stint cleaning floors in an East London pub. Long before she would become an acclaimed solo songwriter in both Welsh and Cornish, a winner of the Welsh Music Prize, a nominee for the Mercury, a Bard of the Corn…