Classically trained and since rewilded, Wales-rooted singer-cellist Ailsa Mair creates elemental tapestries from her strings, voice and loop pedal - experimental folk offerings on the spectrum of grief and joy, woven with nature, magic and threads of Welsh language. Ailsa shares original songs and live improvisations from the heart, driven by a deep love of the land, sea and stars around her - and all their stories. She will play songs from her 2025 EP Mesolithic Mermaid, ongoing musical divination project Fool's Journey as well as material old and new from 15 years of completely unique songwriting. Several of her songs have been played on BBC Introducing, where Adam Walton described her music as ‘Hypnotic, Elemental and Brilliant’ (Fool, 2024), and Bethan Elfyn as ‘Absolutely Gorgeous’ (True North, 2025). In other guises, Ailsa has worked several times with the Royal Shakespeare Company, composed/performed for an abundance of other theatre, aerial circus, storytelling and dance shows, was one half of the bilingual viola da gamba and voice duo Tinc y Tannau with Sianed Jones, and has been session musician for many highly-regarded artists including Cynefin, Georgia Ruth, Gwilym Bowen Rhys and Cerys Hafana.

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Eilio Is the weaving musical world of Heulwen, multi instrumentalist and songwriter.
Born on the borders of Wales and England, they create music inspired by folklore, stories, the in-between places, personal experiences, transitions and transformations.
Their lyrics weave a dwyieithog (Bilingual) story through macaronic verses rhyming Welsh and English in a tribute to the verges and riverbanks, field margins and shorelines, honouring both the mundane and the magical.
Their voice is woven into The drone of the Harmonium and the hypnotic Rhythm of the Guitar to create An enchanted musical distillation of folklore, land, language, seasons and identity.
Eilio (pr Ayl-yo)
Is and old Welsh word for both to weave or plait, and also to sing or compose.

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