Our Work

  • Learning

    Trac Cymru creates an array of opportunities for people of all ages to experience the best of Welsh folk arts. We host residential courses and weekend events for adults and youth groups aged 8-17, deliver workshops in schools across Wales and provide educational resources so that everyone can engage with our traditional arts.

  • Talent Development

    Trac Cymru works directly with performing artists, developing the emerging Welsh folk scene at a professional level. We work alongside industry experts, specialists and creative freelancers to provide mentoring, showcase opportunities and residential courses, expanding our artists’ horizons within Wales and internationally.

  • Communities

    Trac Cymru works on a local and national level to connect individuals and communities together, often in collaboration with fellow organisations and partners. We create access to Welsh folk arts through our projects and involvement at events, giving people an opportunity to explore traditional customs, values and cultural heritage and what they mean to us today.

  • Raising Awareness

    Trac Cymru shouts about the latest on all things Welsh folk arts through our social media, newsletter and platforms. You can also find us popping up at events, making space for traditional arts to be heard. As a guest on a panel or a hand in a research project, we also explore ways we can make change - for the future for our arts, the music industry and the planet.

Where We’ve Worked

3 continents

10 countries

70 locations across Wales

  • 500+

    Jobs created for freelancers since 2005

  • 1,800+

    Workshops and Training sessions delivered since 2005

  • 70+

    Youth and Community projects delivered since 2000

  • 180,000+

    Attendances at our events since 2004

  • 30+

    Talent Development projects delivered since 2000

Who we’ve worked with…

We’ve worked with many partner organisations across Wales, including: Arts & Business Cymru, BBC Radio Wales & Radio Cymru, British Council Cymru, CânSing, Clera, Community Music Wales, Creative & Cultural Skills, Cwlwm Celtaidd Interceltic Festival, Cymdeithas Ddawns Genedlaethol Cymru, Cymdeithas Alawon Gwerin Cymru, Cymdeithas Cerdd Dant, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru, Focus Wales, Green Man festival, Making Music, Sesiwn Fawr festival, St David’s Hall Folk Proms, S4C, Tafwyl festival, Ty Cerdd, University of Wales Bangor, Urdd Gobaith Cymru, Wales Arts International, Wales Millennium Centre…

…as well as international work in collaboration with: Association of Festival Organisers, British Underground, EFDSS, English Folk Expo (Efex), Ethno, Focus Wales, Folk Alliance International (FAI), Folkworks, Music PEI (Canada) & WOMEX.

As part of our work, we are also involved in a number of committees, including: Artworks Alliance, Cerdd Cymru Music Wales project partnership panel, Creative Wales Music Panel, European Folk Network (on the Board as a Founder member), Music Partnership Forum Wales, Musicians Union Live, National Eisteddfod Panel on Folk Music & Pan-World Indigenous Music Network.