toby hay

Toby Hay’s New Music for the 6 String Guitar is a beautifully restrained work—just player and instrument—inspired by nature and the outdoors. It stands as a perfect sibling to his earlier 12-string album; while the instruments differ dramatically in timbre and character, both albums offer a deeply immersive, rewarding experience. The contrast between them highlights Hay’s versatility, yet a shared sense of purity, warmth, and meditative focus unites them.

In follow-up to 2019’s ‘New Music for the 12 String Guitar’, Toby Hay, one of the finest guitarists of his generation, announces his 7th studio album ‘New Music for the 6 String Guitar’ and shares lead single and video ‘Celyn’.

Ahead of next month’s tour, watch Toby Hay and Aidan Thorne perform a track from their album ‘after a pause’ – music of sharply defined brilliance, brimming with consideration for the spirit of collaboration and the natural world.

Toby Hay and Aidan Thorne’s ‘after a pause’ is music of sharply-defined brilliance, shot through with the light of the Welsh countryside, and brimming with consideration both for the spirit of collaboration and for the natural world.

Jim Ghedi and Toby Hay have announced their second and final tour this year following the release of their self-titled duo record released on Topic Records in May this year.

Jim Ghedi and Toby Hay share a live video of them performing ‘Bright Edge Deep’. The track features on their latest self-titled album released on Topic Records and the title was inspired by Seamus Heaney’s poem ‘Digging’.

The music across the twelve tracks of Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay is diverse and dynamic, ebbing and flowing like a river, evoking nature and the outdoors wonderfully. Assured in its composition and immaculate in its execution, this one is a must.

Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay share a live video for Gylfinir (‘curlew’ in Welsh), the final single from their second collaborative record, out May 26th on Topic Records. Shot in Sheffield’s Abbeydale Picture House, the video displays the wonderful interplay of Ghedi & Hay’s unified talents.

Inspired by a long visit to a small village in North Yorkshire, Jim Ghedi and Toby Hay share their new single ‘Swale Song’; a song that also highlights the modern-day issue of pollution & sewage damage to our rivers.

Jim Ghedi and Toby Hay, two of the UK folk scene’s finest guitarists, announce their self-titled, second collaborative album, out May 26th on Topic Records. In anticipation, the duo release the album’s first single, ‘Bright Edge Deep’

We talk to guitar player and composer Toby Hay and electric and acoustic bass player Aidan Thorne about their new album ‘After the Pause’ – a snapshot of an extraordinary and unprecedented time in their lives.

Toby Hay puts down his guitar and takes to the harp for two beautiful improvised pieces recorded at his home in mid-Wales with David Ian Roberts on guitar. These two journey-like pieces will transport the listener. This is music you will constantly return to.