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Leading West Wales Brewer Evan-Evans is to sponsor the first ever Llandeilo Jazz Festival.  The event will be known as the Evan-Evans Llandeilo Jazz Festival and will take place from July 6-8. The event will be based on four of the town’s pubs and is designed to be a free music festival, starting on the Friday night and finishing in the late afternoon on the Sunday. Evan-Evans Brewery Chief Executive Simon Buckley said: “As a company, we have for a long time wanted to promote a series of music events in our brewery town of Llandeilo. “We have teamed up with the local pubs to create a group of high quality venues to launch this fantastic new jazz festival. “Having been involved with the Brecon Jazz Fringe for the last four years, we were delighted that our idea for a Llandeilo Jazz Festival was so warmly embraced. “There will be a mix of classic ‘Trad Jazz’, Gypsy and Rag Time Jazz. “On the Sunday, we hope to have a massive picnic in Penlan Park, where young musicians from...

Music is the best medicine as far as Mike Harries is concerned. The veteran Welsh musician celebrated his 78th birthday with a swing at the music and beer festival staged at Cardiff's newest pub, The Cricketers. The Mike Harries Root Doctors are living legends on the Welsh music scene and they were the stars of the show at the free festival at The Cricketers, just a 'six-hit' away from Glamorgan's Swalec stadium in Cathedral Road. “The Cricketers was making its bow as a new venue for the very best in live music,” said owner Simon Buckley. “And having the Mike Harries Root Doctors topping the bill was the icing on the birthday cake for the star of the show. “Mike Harries is an icon on the Welsh music scene and it was great to see him in such great form – and at 78 years young! “We hope he’ll be back at The Cricketers again and that the venue will become a popular one for lovers of good music in Cardiff. We hope to have more seasonal music festivals on special occasions i...