Tiernan & O'Grady, Acoustic Platform @ Aberystwyth Arts Centre
"With his brilliant songs and sparkling performance, Dafydd is always a special highlight of the evening when he comes to the gwerinABERfolk sessions."
Ian Gulley, gwerinABERfolk club
Tracs
Tracks Tracks are from my latest CD.
Produced and engineered by Ric Lloyd, who also played all the keyboards. Drums and percussion are by Gethin Jones
All songs written and arranged by me, except 'Will You Be There' (Saer/Lloyd) and Walk Away (Saer/Saer).
Dafydd yn whare Larry the Logger
Larry the Logger, a rag written by Patrick Simmons of the Doobie Brothers.
What I've been up to
Y gorffennol
Left school and worked as a tape op in a Cardiff recording studio, recording and playing with great players like Pino Palladino, Richard Dunn, Micky Gee, Aran Ahmun, Iain Scott, Tich Gwilym, Myf Isaacs, Pete Hurley, Dai 'Tank' Watkins, Phil Ryan, Neil Lockwood and others passing through on a daily basis.
Started doing TV sessions mainly on bass, taking over a few sessions from Pino when he went to become famous. TV work dried up with the advent of S4C and work moving north. Wish I'd moved to London then, but didn't... carried on playing in local bands such as Red Beans and Rice.
Eventually found myself gravitating more towards songwriting and solo performance rather than being a sideman. Worked recently on new Huw Chiswell album, contributing guitars, mandolin, banjo and backing vox, with Richard Dunn, Chris Childs and Paul Beavis.