A quick note to everyone to thank you for the nice things you've said over the past few weeks. Here's a small selection:

"Thanks for another great festival and to all the many folk that made it possible! Despite the rain and mud and subsequent reduction in stalls it was great, the music was brilliant!

Just wanted to say thanks for a well-organised weekend...Brilliant music, good quality food and cheap beer! Can't be bad."

Now that the dust (mud) has settled on our weekend celebrations, it is time to say goodbye to two stalkwarts of the festival.

Ruth Exell Stevenson has decided to hang up her bodhran and Emyr Morris has logged off.

If it was not for their dedication to the festival, and their determination to ensure that it succeeds, there would no longer be a Pontardawe Festival. So we are going to miss them very much.

We wish them both well in the future and look forward to welcoming them back as treasured guests in the future. Their successors have a lot to live up to.

A team from the South Wales Probation Trust has been brought in to help with the organisation of this year's festival.

The young offenders are working hard to help put the site together for this weekend, and will be doing valuable work over the weekend, helping us to keep the site clean and tidy.

Gwyl Pontardawe Festival is delighted to announce that it has received significant financial sponsorship from one of Wales’ premier environmental companies for this year’s event.

Less than a week to go, and the who, the where and the when are changing!
Performers are listed in order of appearance. Timings are approximate. Read on...

Pontardawe has won backing for a wide-ranging new programme that could provide you with a qualification linked to one of several festival-related activities.

Cardiff-based Arts & Business Cymru, in association with our mainstage sponsor Fujitsu UK, are helping to fund a series of educational courses that will provide skills that could lead to jobs in the entertainment and other industries.

Details of the subjects and courses available are listed below. So if you are interested, please contact us via the Feedback section of this website or via the Festival Office on 01792 830200.

Oh, and by the way, it's all completely free!

This year's festival promises to be greener than ever, thanks to help from the local probation service.

Teams of youngsters have signed up to keep the festival grounds tidy and free from litter throughout the weekend.

We have increased the amount of recycled waste at festival from under 25% five years ago to almost 80% last year, and this year are looking forward to doing even better.

We are delighted to announce that Pontardawe festival has been officially named the first Fair Trade music festival in Wales.

It’s the latest step in a five-year plan to make Pontardawe a completely sustainable event.

It means that we shall be using Fair Trade products wherever we can, and we are encouraging our traders and suppliers to do the same.

Two important Fair Trade organisations have already signed up and will be offering Fir Trade produce in this bear's craft market.

Porthcawl-based Sustainable Wales are bringing their Sussed fair trade range of clothing, jewellery, bags, glassware, recycled stationery, soaps, scarves, toys and unusual gifts.
And , from Abergavenny, Love Zimbabwe return with their unique selection of products from Africa.

Transglobal Underground have picked up a prestigious BBC World Music Award at a ceremony in London hosted by BBC Radio Three.

The legendary London-based band were crowned in the Club Global category.

Our congratulations to them, and to you if you've already booked your ticket!

If you haven't then...well, you know what to do!!

Iconic Welsh supergroup Ar Log played the first ever Pontardawe Festival - and now they're to return for our 30th. birthday celebrations.

The band's 1978 gig was one of their first, and it led to the record deal that propelled them to the top of the Welsh music scene.