Max Boyce: Hymns & Arias

Compiling - in some instances for the first time in print
- the very best songs, poems and stories from across his
celebrated career, Max: Hymns & Arias is the definitive
selected work of a major cultural figure.

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When 'Hymns and Arias' rang out at Cardiff Arms Park
some fifty years ago, those great Welsh anthems 'Calon
Lan' and 'Cwm Rhondda' had found a companion and the
valleys of south Wales had produced a new folk hero.
Max Boyce's work, with over five decades of creativity,
captures the spirit and the story of the people of Wales. It
also has a warmth and charm that has made his words and
music resonate with a worldwide audience.
From his early days touring the folk clubs and small concert
halls of his native south Wales to sell-out shows at some of
the world's most iconic venues, including the Albert Hall,
the London Palladium and the opera houses of Sydney
and Durban, Max has become an original and treasured
performer whose songs and stories have become part of
folk culture. His albums, including the No. 1 album We All
Had Doctors' Papers and the iconic Live at Treorchy, have
sold in their millions and earned him several gold discs.
His greatest influence has always been the valleys of Wales,
with their inherent warmth and humour, their sadness and
passion, and he has the remarkable ability to heighten, to an
art form, the 'hwyl' that attends his nation's national game:
rugby union.
Compiling - in some instances for the first time in print
- the very best songs, poems and stories from across his
celebrated career, Max: Hymns & Arias is the definitive
selected work of a major cultural figure who, through his
inimitable humour, uniquely Welsh pathos and masterful
wordcraft, has defined a nation and its people for more than
half a century.