ABOUT GUTO
Guto Dafis is a singer of songs and teller of tales.
His repertoire encompasses songs and tunes, in Welsh, English and sometimes Breton, traditional and contemporary – a repertoire that has grown out of his own personal and musical landscape.
His performances take you on a journey through stories of broken hearts and dysfunctional relationships, and celebrate the beautiful unsatisfactoriness of life, delivered with a combination of deep seriousness and dry humour.
Distinctly and distinctively Welsh, there is also something European in his dramatic yet matter-of-fact vocal delivery and particular style of diatonic accordion accompaniment.
He performs solo, or with guitarist Daniel KilBride.
He is also one of Jon Langford’s Men of Gwent – the South Wales band of Newport-born Chicago resident Jon Langford of The Mekons.
STORYTELLING
Guto is also a storyteller and has performed traditional tales at the Beyond the Border International Storytelling Festival in the Vale of Glamorgan; Festival at the Edge in Shropshire; the Welsh Pavilion at the Festival Interceltique at Lorient, Brittany; Suns Peraulis Musichis des Minorancis, Udine, Italy; Aberystwyth Storytelling Festival; etc
For information about Guto's activities as a storyteller, see:
www.gutodafisstoryteller.weebly.com
PAST MUSICAL INCARNATIONS
In the early 2000’s Guto toured in Wales, England, Ireland, Brittany Estonia with fiddler Gareth Westacott in the duo Toreth.
In the’90s he played melodeon as a sideman to singer-songwriters Paul Rosser (in Rhondda band The Watermelons), and Chris Ridgeway (in The Vinegar Flies) – and keyboards and melodeon in Bernard KilBride’s Juice ceilidh band.
The ’80s saw him touting an acoustic guitar and singing Welsh folk-songs, and playing keyboards in Cardiff r’n’b and rock’n’roll bands.
His repertoire encompasses songs and tunes, in Welsh, English and sometimes Breton, traditional and contemporary – a repertoire that has grown out of his own personal and musical landscape.
His performances take you on a journey through stories of broken hearts and dysfunctional relationships, and celebrate the beautiful unsatisfactoriness of life, delivered with a combination of deep seriousness and dry humour.
Distinctly and distinctively Welsh, there is also something European in his dramatic yet matter-of-fact vocal delivery and particular style of diatonic accordion accompaniment.
He performs solo, or with guitarist Daniel KilBride.
He is also one of Jon Langford’s Men of Gwent – the South Wales band of Newport-born Chicago resident Jon Langford of The Mekons.
STORYTELLING
Guto is also a storyteller and has performed traditional tales at the Beyond the Border International Storytelling Festival in the Vale of Glamorgan; Festival at the Edge in Shropshire; the Welsh Pavilion at the Festival Interceltique at Lorient, Brittany; Suns Peraulis Musichis des Minorancis, Udine, Italy; Aberystwyth Storytelling Festival; etc
For information about Guto's activities as a storyteller, see:
www.gutodafisstoryteller.weebly.com
PAST MUSICAL INCARNATIONS
In the early 2000’s Guto toured in Wales, England, Ireland, Brittany Estonia with fiddler Gareth Westacott in the duo Toreth.
In the’90s he played melodeon as a sideman to singer-songwriters Paul Rosser (in Rhondda band The Watermelons), and Chris Ridgeway (in The Vinegar Flies) – and keyboards and melodeon in Bernard KilBride’s Juice ceilidh band.
The ’80s saw him touting an acoustic guitar and singing Welsh folk-songs, and playing keyboards in Cardiff r’n’b and rock’n’roll bands.
