Daring to Dream: Lleswyl 2026
Published Friday 20 February 2026
We are delighted to have been selected by Daring to Dream Festival to take part in their digital festival 2026! Lleswyl is a Festival-at-Home experience established to support the wellbeing of those who normally cannot attend live gigs because of chronic illness, disability, or loneliness. The aim is to provide an experience that everyone can share: an uplifting, fun and joyous Festival evening with the company of family, friends, and neighbours! Music is the catalyst that creates this wellbeing experience. Lleswyl is free to all.
Around 1.2 million adults in Wales – almost half of the adult population – are living with illness, meaning nearly every family, street, workplace and community is touched by illness in some way, highlighting the urgent importance of emotional health support.
Daring to Dream’s founder Barbara Chidgey said: “To live as well as possible with illness, people need not only clinical care but also emotional support and ‘spaces to talk’ about what it feels like to live with illness, its treatments and its impact on daily life.
“We really want the wider public to hear us, to hear our voices as we discuss what it feels like living with illness with live guests who will join us on the night – patients, their families, carers and clinicians. We also want everyone to enjoy so much joyous music, being together and realising they are not on their own with illness, because they are part of our community.”
Lleswyl 2026, Daring to Dream’s free, inclusive festival event will stream live from 7pm on Friday 20 February 2026, hosted by Siân Lloyd, Jason Harrold and Tumi Williams. The digital festival will make visible five years of incredible work and impact by the Daring to Dream team, reaching out to all those for whom going to live gigs is not going to happen anytime soon.
You can catch our performances of Isel Ddŵr/Shallow Water, composed by Casi Wyn, performed by Casi and Sinfonia Cymru (filmed in 2024) and Holding out for a Hero performed by Sinfonia Cymru’s string quartet in 2023 as part of the digital festival here https://youtu.be/qledVO23GGM
Congratulations to founder Barbara Chidgey and all the Daring to Dream team on five years of amazing work – you can find out more about the charity here https://daringtodream.wales/what-is-lleswyl-2026/