Gwenifer Raymond

**Baba Yaga's Hut and 100 Club present... Gwenifer Raymond**

Wales born, Brighton-based instrumentalist Gwenifer Raymond is a celebrated champion of the finger-picked guitar. She has drawn international acclaim for her repurposing of Mississippi blues and John Fahey’s intricate Americana to embody her roots in rural South Wales and her interests in folk horror and the avant garde, inventing a new form dubbed Welsh Primitive. The Guardian has described her as a “profound talent” whilst The Observer has praised her “awe-inspiring technique and intense musicality”, and Uncut Magazine has championed her “fast-developing talents as a composer of eerie menace.”

In April this year Gwenifer signed to Fat Possum Records and her first two albums are being reissued this summer. You Were Never Much of a Dancer (2018) and Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain (2020) – the latter a Welsh Music Prize nominee – will arrive via We Are Busy Bodies in conjunction with Tompkins Square Records, who originally released them.