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Music industry updates from Cardiff, Wales.

All the best pictures as Cardiff Music City Festival 2025 wraps up

Cardiff Music City Festival (3-18 October 2025) – a two-week celebration of music that brought global stars, local legends, fresh new talent and thousands of music fans to venues across the city – has wrapped up after a successful second year.

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WHAT IS A MUSIC CITY?

Cardiff is one of the fastest-growing cities in the UK and aspires to be a leader in the music cities movement, a standard of urban development which champions and promotes music as a tool for growth.

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BEHIND THE SCENE

We’ve been going Behind The Scene of the capital’s music ecosystem. Read on, as we’ll be catching up with artists (either heralding from, or connected to the city), as well the capital’s promoters, venue owners, managers, studios and other music industry professionals…

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04 Dec 2025

IN TUNE is a series of FREE, virtual networking sessions for Disabled, Neurodivergent and Deaf workers in the music industry in Wales

03 Dec 2025

The Music Export Growth Scheme

02 Dec 2025

Help Keep WNO Orchestra on the Road

02 Dec 2025

Bandology is a free 5 week course taking place in early 2026
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