THERE are now just three weeks to go before Cardigan Castle hosts a special gig to celebrate Cardigan-based Fflach Records and founders Richard and Wyn Jones who contributed so much to the Welsh music scene.

The late brothers – mainstays of seminal Welsh language new wave band Ail Symudiad – founded Fflach in 1981.

Symud Trwy’r Haf: Celebrating 40 years Of Fflach on Friday, July 22 will feature live music from Jess, Crys, Einir Dafydd and Catsgam.

Crys are a heavy rock band from Resolven, formed in 1976 by brothers Liam Forde and Scott Forde, plus Alun Morgan.

After releasing their first single in 1980 on Click Records, Crys went on to record albums on the Sain and Fflach labels and are still rocking more than forty years later.

Cardigan band Jess formed in 1988 and their style – a mix of heavy rock and melodic pop – saw them explode on the Welsh music scene at the National Eisteddfod in Newport, Gwent.

They subsequently released three albums and two singles on Fflach, went on to win many awards and toured extensively throughout Europe.

Formed in 1997, Catsgam are a band from south-east Wales with their own distinctive style of guitar-based melodic rock built around Rhys Harries’s powerful songwriting and the instantly recognisable vocals of Catrin Brooks.

Four albums of original material were recorded on the Fflach label leading to the release of ‘Sgam’ – the 21st anniversary collection, in October 2018.

Wawffactor and Cân i Gymru (A Song for Wales) winner Einir Dafydd completes the line-up for this special evening at Cardigan Castle, which is part of the annual Mwldan-Cardigan Castle collaboration over the summer season.