Rona Mac is a young singer/songwriter from St Davids. Rona’s grass-roots approach to music is tangible and real, and her live performance is both impressive and transformative.
Rona is beginning to get the recognition she deserves after just completing a successful UK wide tour. A truly independent DIY artist, Rona is a prolific songwriter carving her own pathway as a queer alt-folk artist. She swings seamlessly between the stripped back sounds of Elliott Smith and Laura Marling, to the textures, rhythm and overdrive of Ben Howard or Phoebe Bridge.
Funded by PRS foundation, Help Musicians and Horizons Launchpad (Arts Council Wales), her new album 'Honeymilk and Heavy Weather' is tenderly written for a lost friend, and her best work to date. Recorded, produced and mixed by Rona in her caravan-studio, her music comes raw and unfiltered, aching with nostalgia and heavily influenced by the Pembrokeshire environment.
For 3 years she has carved these 11 tracks with love, grief and determination, pulling everything into alignment with what lies at its core. There's a dense and moving story behind this album, intertwined with themes of love, loss, illness, and water. Rona uses the sounds of fire, rivers, ocean and wind amongst these tracks, as well as voice notes, spoken word, and all manner of strange and satisfying sounds. Honest lyrics, strong melodies, harmonies and riffs are a trademark of her work that draws emotional weight from her personal experience to give universal significance, like all the best art does.
All the songs featured this week are taken from the new album.
Local Artist of the Week: RONA MAC
Local Artist of the Week: RONA MAC
Rona Mac is a young singer/songwriter from St Davids. Rona’s grass-roots approach to music is tangible and real, and her live performance is both impressive and transformative.
Rona is beginning to get the recognition she deserves after just completing a successful UK wide tour. A truly independent DIY artist, Rona is a prolific songwriter carving her own pathway as a queer alt-folk artist. She swings seamlessly between the stripped back sounds of Elliott Smith and Laura Marling, to the textures, rhythm and overdrive of Ben Howard or Phoebe Bridge.
Funded by PRS foundation, Help Musicians and Horizons Launchpad (Arts Council Wales), her new album 'Honeymilk and Heavy Weather' is tenderly written for a lost friend, and her best work to date. Recorded, produced and mixed by Rona in her caravan-studio, her music comes raw and unfiltered, aching with nostalgia and heavily influenced by the Pembrokeshire environment.
For 3 years she has carved these 11 tracks with love, grief and determination, pulling everything into alignment with what lies at its core. There's a dense and moving story behind this album, intertwined with themes of love, loss, illness, and water. Rona uses the sounds of fire, rivers, ocean and wind amongst these tracks, as well as voice notes, spoken word, and all manner of strange and satisfying sounds. Honest lyrics, strong melodies, harmonies and riffs are a trademark of her work that draws emotional weight from her personal experience to give universal significance, like all the best art does.
All the songs featured this week are taken from the new album.
ronamacmusic.com.