A Machynlleth music festival that returned for its 37th year wrapped saw nearly 2,000 tickets sold to dozens of performances across a week.

Running from August 18 to August 25, the Gwyl Machynlleth Music Festival returned to the Powys town’s Museum of Modern Art for another week of classical music.

The festival, approaching its fifth decade, reportedly saw 2,00 tickets sold for the several concerts across a week filled with Welsh and International music, as well as performances focussed on culture, and heritage.

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Every August, the museum welcomes acts from across Wales and beyond for a mix of concerts in Y Tabernacle, open air performances, workshops and exhibitions. The festival opened with traditional festival of sacred hymns, the Cymanfa Ganu.

The event reached a its big finale on Sunday, August 25, as the museum welcomed an all-star line-up that combined both the classical and Welsh parts of the festival’s performers, including former Royal Harpist Alis Huws, who performed at the coronation of King Charles II in 2023.

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A spokesperson for the museum said: “The 37th Gŵyl Machynlleth Festival came to a close last Sunday with the worlds of classical and Welsh music coming together on one stage.

“While the festival has always focussed on classical and Welsh music, this is the first time that the two genres had combined, with a special closing event which featured home-grown stars the baritone John leuan Jones, soprano Manon Ogwen Parry soprano and the former Royal harpist Alis Huws joining Festival Co-Artistic Director Julius Drake on the tabernacle stage.

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“The event capped a successful week for the Festival, with around 2,000 tickets sold across the week, plus many more attending free events including open air performances on market day and the traditional opening event, the Cymanfa Ganu.

“Other highlights of the week included the first-ever performance of an opera at the Festival, in the shape of Francis Poulenc’s one-woman opera ‘La Voix Humaine’, a night of Tango music, and two sell out events, Welsh male voice choir Cantorion Gogledd Cymru and the famed Welsh Pianist Llŷr Williams.”