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Carreg Lafar formed in Cardiff in 1993 with Antwn, James, Rhian and Simon O'shea and Linda joined the band in 1994 to complete the line-up.

In the summer of 1995 Carreg Lafar made their debut album 'Ysbryd y Werin' with Sain Records. The album was released in November and received great reviews from the folk music press in the UK and North America.

In the summer of 1996 the band played their first major festival in Lorient, Brittany, representing Wales at the Interceltic Festival. Ten days of performances were a great success culminating in the band supporting the Dan Ar Braz concert 'Heritage of the Celts' to an audience of 10,000 people. In 1997 'Ysbryd y Werin' was also released in North America by Blix Street Records and Carreg Lafar launched the album with a two week tour of the States. Since then, the band has returned to North America for three further tours in 1998, 2000 and 2001, as well as a weekend trip to Atlanta for the Celtic festival in 1999.

In 1997 the band started work on their second album 'Hyn' which was recorded in Cardiff at Albany Studios in March and April 1998. The album was released on the Sain label in August that year and also received rave reviews in all the major folk and roots music magazines in the UK and across North America. In 1998, the band made two videos for two tracks from 'Hyn' which were featured on a Welsh language arts TV programme, 'Sioe Gelf'.

On New Year's day 1999, Simon left the band to concentrate on his visual art practice and a new guitarist, Dylan Davies, joined. In 1999 the band returned to Lorient to represent Wales at the Interceltic Festival.

'Hyn' was released by Marquis Classics in North America in May 2000 and the album was launched with a very successful three week tour of Canada and America in August 2000.

The band began recording its third album 'Profiad', in April 2001, also at Albany Studios. The album features three guest musicians, Robin Huw Bowen on triple Harp, Lawson Dando on additional guitar and piano and Claudine Cassidy on Cello. The album was released by Sain records in August 2002 and launched at the Lorient Interceltic Festival, Year of Wales. Dylan decided to leave the band after Lorient in order to concentrate on his own solo work. The group then had a fairly quiet time but performed a few gigs with Lawson Dando taking guitar.

In 2006 Danny Kilbride joined the line-up on Guitar and the band returned to Lorient, also joined by Gafin Morgan on extra pibgorn and pipes. A new album is in the making.........