Despite his Welsh name and ancestry, Gwilym Davies is a Hampshire (England) man who has been resident in Gloucestershire since the 1970s. He is an experienced singer of traditional songs and, when not singing unaccompanied, accompanies himself on melodeon, concertina, banjo or guitar.

For more than 30 years, Gwilym has been tracking down and recording traditional singers, and more that half his repertoire is based on songs from those singers. He sings a large number of songs from the English traveller (gypsy) community which he has learnt first hand. Most of his English songs come from the south and south-west of England, and he also sings a number of songs from his collecting trips to the USA.

Most of his recordings of traditional singers, mainly in Hampshire, Devon and Gloucestershire, have now been deposited with the National Sound Archive in London.

Visit him at: http://www.cmarge.demon.co.uk/gwilym/