toby hay

Watch Toby Hay performing Leaving Chicago, a track from his latest album The Longest Day. Don’t miss his album launch on Friday, 20th July 7:30pm, St John’s Church, Canton, Cardiff.

Amid breathtaking Welsh landscape, we met up with twelve-string guitarist Toby Hay, our Artist of the Month for July, to discuss the mechanics behind his new set of acoustic instrumentals, The Longest Day.

This willingness to engage – emotionally and physically, with internal and external landscapes – is what sets Toby Hay apart from virtually everyone else currently making instrumental folk music. The Longest Day is a triumph, a thing of shimmering beauty.

We have the pleasure of sharing Toby Hay’s new single ‘Curlew (Part 1)’, a track on which he explores loss and grief, the circularity of time and its healing qualities. Taken from his new album ‘The Longest Day’, out on June 21st.

Toby Hay announces new album ‘The Longest Day’, the scope of which is broader than his debut. Set for release on the summer solstice the title track is released as the first single today, watch the accompanying video.

We catch up with Toby Hay on tour. He talks about his new album The Gathering and shares with us news about his new album for which a new guitar has been built specifically for Toby by Roger Bucknall at Fylde Guitars.

Welsh guitarist Toby Hay is currently on tour following the release of this debut album ‘The Gathering’. So what does he listen to while on the road? Check his ‘On the Road’ playlist featuring the likes of Karen Dalton, The Gloaming and more.

The latest in our Lost in Transmission Series features new music from Lisa Knapp, Brigid Mae Power, Sam Amidon, Holy Modal Rounders, Toby Hay, David Allred, Peter Broderick and more.

Artistic statements like The Gathering…are symptoms of change, and they are also its catalysts. Toby Hay’s album is a stunning turning point in what we have come to call folk music. A beautiful, frank and mysterious statement.

Watch the video premiere for Mayfair at Rhayader 1927, a track from Toby Hay’s new album The Gathering to be released on 29th March 2017 via Cambrian Records. Both the tune and video, which features archive footage of the Rhayader Mayfair, are ‘wondrous and uncanny.’

Watch the album trailer for Toby Hay’s forthcoming debut album ‘The Gathering’ and read Robert Macfarlane’s inspiring words…”The tracks of this album – quick-fingered, deep-felt – open landscapes in the mind’s eye…”

Birds is a five track EP from the driving force behind Cambrian Records, guitarist/composer Toby Hay. The music forms part of a larger artistic enterprise, a collaborative exhibition, shared between Hay, artist Keith How, and blacksmiths Nick Buchan and Tom Robinson of Gofannon Forge. The twelve string technique is flawless; the music delightful.