Take a damp towel as an unusual but cooling bedfellow for these hot nights. Don’t laugh . Try it and let me know . I seem to tremember someone telling me thay they used this idea in Australia . Anyone else know?

Evening tigers. Is it cooling where you are? Join me live on @bbcradio2 in 4 minutes if you fancy some ace music to go with your gin or mint julep sundowner.

Ohhhhhh Lou…

We are live- you coming? @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social #blues #music starting with some epic Lou Rawls xx

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#Music #Blues Joe Bonamassa in Session The Blues Show with Cerys Matthews Today 21:00 BBC Radio 2 @cerysmatthews.bsky.social brings you blues titan Joe Bonamassa live in session. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

It's a Tre Bon Mass 'a all things Joe on the #BluesShow tonight when Cerys @cerysmatthews.bsky.social has Joe Bonamassa live in session from 9pm @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social

Jerron Paxton joins me tonight to play live on the blues show - some old time music so as it might dance on the cool winds of bank holiday? Join us at 9pm @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social

#Music #Blues Angélique Kidjo The Blues Show with Cerys Matthews Today 21:00 BBC Radio 2 @cerysmatthews.bsky.social welcomes five-time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo to share her favourite Blues records! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

So good to hear @garthc.bsky.social talking about his new edition of Princes Among Men @cerysmatthews.bsky.social Sunday Morning Sesh @bbc6music.bsky.social And wonderful to have an immersion in musica Roma from from the Balkans . Take us to the Mahala !!!!

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social @bbc6music.bsky.social I hear there are still tickets for the mbira dzvadadzimu virtuosa Millicent Chapanda gig at The Auditorium St John’s College here in Oxford tonight . Check in via eventbrite

We’ve got some lovely tunes tonight - @bbcradio2

Diolch @cerysmatthews.bsky.social for the shout out & playing Mary Bergin on the #Tinwhistle for us. We're back this Wednesday @dogandpartridge.bsky.social 6.45pm. Learn #irishtraditionalmusic on #tinwhistle #lowwhistle & #flute. £10 per session. Beginners welcome. Spare tinwhistles for loan!

This book - bought years ago after listening to an interview on @cerysmatthews.bsky.social’s radio show - is proving to be a very enjoyable read. I’m sharing here before I’ve even finished it, for anyone looking for an alternative journey through history.

The great and oft-sampled drummer James Gadson has died at 86. He played on famous songs by Marvin Gaye (“I Want You”) & Thelma Houston (“Don’t Leave Me This Way”). James Gadson looking cooler than anyone ever on Bill Withers’s “ Use Me” in 1972. #RIPJamesGadson m.youtube.com/watch?v=Luzl...

Good morning! Am coming to you live from Salford Quays in 2 mins .. loads of eclectic music, festival recordings, Hawaiian guitar and Lucas Santana, we also go climbing together in one of the biggest centres in Europe and talk oxygen and fish and canals . Coming? @bbc6music

#Music #Poetry 6 Music Festival: Climbing and Canals @cerysmatthews.bsky.social Sunday 10:00 BBC Radio 6 Music Cerys complements the festival by looking at the city's canals with Dr Keith Hendry and the rise of climbing with James Lister from The Climbing Depot. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#Music The Blues Show with Cerys Matthews Today 21:00 BBC Radio 2 @cerysmatthews.bsky.social invites stars of the West End musical Marie & Rosetta, Ntombizodwa Ndlovu and @beverleyknight.bsky.social, to perform live in the studio. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#Poetry #Music Time Zone tinkering and disappearing dialects @cerysmatthews.bsky.social Sun 10:00 BBC Radio 6 Music Ariadna Güell Sans from the Time Zone Initiative on time zone adjustments and Professor Fiona Douglasdiscusses a BBC archive of disappearing dialects. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll She was born on March 20th, 1915

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Tonight we pay tribute to Mike Vernon of Blue Horizon - Otis Spahn, Peter Green, Chicken Shack etc.. we also mark the passing of John Hammond Jr. cue Mike Bloomfield and Dr John and more besides #music #blues @bbcradio2 now … well in one minute

Morning , coming to you live with some remarkable recordings - all live on @bbc6music including not to be missed session from Jesca hoop and composing talk with Camilla George . Where are you at today? Would love to hear news xx

Dyma’r lincs i’r rhaglen ar S4C pan ‘es i i Goleg yr Iesu,Y Llyfrgell Genedlaethol etc i wilo am eiriau Cymraeg/Brythoneg yn Lloegr a’r Alban+ffindes i bowl haircuts, a meudwy yn y coed yng Ngogledd LLoegr Cymraeg ei iaith ( Myrddin) www.s4c.cymru/clic/program... www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Links below to what we filmed at Jesus College,Oxford,Nat.Lib. of Wales,Shakepeare’s Globe+looked 4Welsh/Brythonic words still used in Eng+Scot,but also found bowl haircuts+a Northern English Welsh speaking recluse in the woods.(Merlin) www.s4c.cymru/clic/program... www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Fado Friday S.F.T.D @cerysmatthews.bsky.social Have a great weekend. youtu.be/Gw4uCWKEuzI?...

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social beautiful to hear meri it is on the show today. We recorded a lovely version of this with our choir Glasgow Madrigirls on a recording for Glasgow 850 last year. glasgowmadrigirls.bandcamp.com/album/the-bi...

Wonderful to hear @mfrancispoet.bsky.social on @cerysmatthews.bsky.social BBC6 programme talking about his new book "The Green Month: poems after Dafydd ap Gwilym"

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social 👀 #RabbitHole

Morning! Am live on BBC6 right now if you want some company and tunes… we talk improvising to silent films, laurel and hardy, and writing music for david Attenborough .. come join me xx

National Trust Cymru is inviting people across Wales to celebrate St David’s Day with a rich programme of cultural events taking place at 15 of its sites on 1 March

Alison Hargreaves was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest solo, unaided, and without bottled oxygen (1995). She was also the first person (man or woman) to solo the six "great north faces" of the Alps in a single summer season (1993). She was born #OTD in 1962. #mountaineering

Evening music lovers - fancy some tunes in the rain? Xx @bbcradio2

Morning!!! Xx live on 6 if fancy some tunage and company

Morning! Thanks if you’re joining me on 6 , plenty of great new music if you haven’t , plus talk of a lovely novel by Candice Chung and we talk to John Carter Cash in a few minutes xx

Am heading to Bath soon- March 19th chat, music and Dorothy Ashby esque Harpings with Amanda Whiting , Under Milk Wood stories and maybe a Way Beyond Blue song or two . It’s been 30 years since its release. See you there ? KomediaBath.co.uk

Join me in a few minutes on @bbcradio2 as we space travel via music to the fire ants , jello and wild and beautiful music ofLouisiana with musician CJ Chenier when we talk and play music by him and also his King of Zydeco father the late great Clifton Chenier 9pm xx

Windbox, groanbox,...not terms of endearment used by Mrs Zipper to describe me, rather other names for the accordion, The King of the Zydeco's favourite instrument - hear all about him with @cerysmatthews.bsky.social on the #BluesShow tonight at 9pm, BBC Radio 2

#Music #Poetry @cerysmatthews.bsky.social Sunday 10:00 #BBC6Music Cerys chats to @ianleslie.bsky.social about his new Beatles book 'John and Paul' and Tilar J. Mazzeo about her new #book 'To the Edge of the World', the true story of a pioneering young woman. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Heading in with a bag full of great songs - we go live at 9pm tonight on @bbcradio2. If you missed Jimi Hendrix playing some Robert Burns - I’ll be lining it up tonight too ..

Check out Cerys Matthews playing a live version of Green Grow The Rashes performed by Michael Marra & McFalls Chamber, plus Auld Lang Syne by Jimi Hendrix, Ae Fond Kiss by Camera Obscura and Address to a Haggis by Hugh McDiarmid and Shabaka Hutchings. Happy Burns Nightx www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Good morning music lovers! Saddle up your pony and come on a ride? #6music currently playing a terrific example of gospel singing new from Ron carter and Ricky Dillard new blue note..

T'other week (11 Jan) we had a lovely mention on @bbc6music.bsky.social @cerysmatthews.bsky.social programme. It was all about Hawks and Winterwatching.. our 'Hawk & Crow' had a lovely spin anyways. Still time to listen... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... @concertedartists.bsky.social

Live Now via Zoom - ‘Tiger Brides: Memories of Love and War from the G.I. Brides of Tiger Bay’ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 zoom.us/j/9476419896...

H is for Hawk, a blockbuster movie based on Helen Macdonald’s memoir hits cinemas this month - and hawk-eyed viewers might recognise some of the Welsh locations used in the filming wp.me/p8Mk4U-1cAA

Really enjoying listening to Chris P..so much wisdom..any chance of a shout out for a Shrewsbury gig incoming..

Huge thanks to those showing interest & support after @cerysmatthews.bsky.social kind intervention on @bbc6music.bsky.social. She’s top, as you know, & I’d put money on her rating the book. It’s about the power of #music & how/why we need our Angels of #Protest now. #PowerChords #punk #books

Looking forward to this new series 👇 "BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, A People's History of Punk, Teenage Kicks" share.google/qVueW9JLvzYy... And really enjoying listening to Chris Packham chatting with @cerysmatthews.bsky.social now