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From November 2008, Matthews sat in for Stephen Merchant and Marc Riley on BBC 6 Music and went on to present George Lamb's slot in April 2009. In May 2009, she presented the show A Month of Sundays With... Cerys Matthews. She then covered for Nemone on 6 Music from July 2009, while Nemone was on maternity leave. Matthews began maternity leave from November 2009 and had to finish presenting the show a month early. In April 2010, Matthews returned to 6 Music to present a weekend show on Sunday mornings. She produces and presents radio documentaries and shows, including Hook Line and Singer, where she shared her love of fishing on Radio 4. Matthews released her first CD in two years in October 2009. The album, titled Don't Look Down, was released in two versions, one in English and the other in Welsh (the title of the Welsh edition was Paid Edrych i Lawr). It was recorded in Providence, Rhode Island, Nashville, Seattle and London, and coincided with a two-week UK tour in October.[30][31] Since 2010[edit] Matthews has covered Glastonbury Festival for both BBC Television and BBC 6 Music, she wrote and presented a BBC Two programme on poetry and presented TV documentaries on singer Dorothy Squires, the Mississippi River and Cuba. She wrote and presented a documentary on early blues players such as Memphis Minnie, children's character Pippi Longstocking, Mahalia Jackson and the celebrated British blues label "Blue Horizon". She has presented a documentary for BBC Radio 2 on Maida Vale studios. She frequently contributes to BBC Radio 4 programmes such as Feedback, Frontrow, Loose Ends and Saturday Live, also writing a column for world music magazine Songlines. Since 2021, Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye have presented Add To Playlist, which explores connections in music.[32] She has curated festivals for the Tate Modern, the Shetland theatre and Womex. In 2010, Matthews released Tir (in Welsh: "territory" or "land"), a collection of traditional Welsh songs, and of photographs from her family archive from the 1880s to 1940s of people at work and play.[33] They included "Calon Lân", "Cwm Rhondda", "Migldi-Magldi" (sung as a duet with Bryn Terfel), "Myfanwy" and "Sosban Fach".[34] This is the third release on her own label, Rainbow City. Explorer is Matthews's fourth solo album (2011). In both selecting and writing the songs she delved into the influence of both the music she has heard round the globe, and the places she had visited. Recorded over seven days, the album from the outset had no pre-determined sound or calculated format.[35] On the album she incorporates a little Spanish, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and American sensibilities, styles, and genres.[36] In April 2011, a video was released through Matthews's official YouTube Page[37] of the lead single from Explorer, "Sweet Magnolia". Matthews played the Isle of Wight and Hay festivals in 2012, the latter with a Woody Guthrie tribute show, and collaborated with artists such as Arun Ghosh, Tunde Jegede, Attab Haddad, Frank Moon and the London Bulgarian Choir. 2012 also saw Matthews play music from her collection of Welsh traditional songs Tir, with Ballet Cymru, ending in a show in Sadler's Wells, and a nomination for a Theatre Critics Award 2012.[38] For Christmas 2012, She produced and arranged Christmas album Baby, It's Cold Outside (2012) to much acclaim, recognised by the Sunday Times as an "essential seasonal album".[39] Matthews played UK literary festivals including Dartington, Chester, Hay and Edinburgh and released an album of traditional Welsh reels and songs, Hullabaloo. She sang Patsy Cline's "Crazy" and Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" as part of the memorial service for esteemed War correspondent Marie Colvin, in May 2012. Also in 2012, Matthews appeared as a celebrity guest mentor for Tom Jones's team on the first series of the UK version of The Voice.[40] In 2014, Matthews co-founded an interactive festival, The Good Life Experience, with Charlie and Caroline Gladstone, held every September on the Gladstone estate in Hawarden, Flintshire near the Cheshire border. It is a festival which celebrates the great outdoors, with abseiling, campfires, axe throwing, foraging, talk on survival, as well as cultural activities, crafts, books and music.[41] In March 2025 she was guest of honour at the banquet for BBC's Great British Menu at Blenheim Palace.[42] Awards and recognitions[edit] Matthews won gold at the 2013 Sony Radio Academy Awards, winning in the "Music Broadcaster of the year" award for her show on BBC Radio 6 Music.[43] For her contribution to culture in 2014, Matthews won a St David Award – run by the Welsh government, in its inaugural year, 2014.[44] She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to music.[45] In July 2014 Matthews was awarded an honorary degree from Swansea University.[46] Matthews won the Best Presenter Music award at the Audio Production Awards on 23 November 2016.[47] In 2017 she was a guest presenter on the BBC's coverage of the Royal Welsh Show, along with Andi Oliver and Omar Hamdi.[48] On 14 May 2018, Matthews took over from Paul Jones as the presenter of The Blues Show on BBC Radio 2. In 2019 Matthews was one of the three judges for the 2020 Countryfile Calendar, sold in aid of Children in Need.[49] In 2021 Matthews made a pilot for a new BBC Radio 4 music programme called Add to Playlist, with Jeffrey Boakye. This emerged as a weekly Friday night show which Matthews and Boakye present and direct.[50] Add to Playlist went on to win both the Prix Italia and Prix Europa in the music radio category in 2022.[51] Personal life[edit] Matthews has two sons and a daughter. She married her second husband, Steve Abbott, who also has two children, in 2011 and they live in west London.[52] In 2019, to celebrate her 50th birthday, Matthews took her nine- and 12-year-old sons and husband to hike to Everest Base Camp.[53][54] Matthews is fluent in English, Welsh, Spanish, and French.[55] Discography[edit] Catatonia[edit] Main article: Catatonia (band) § Discography As a solo artist[edit] Studio albums Cockahoop (UK No. 30) (Blanco y Negro – 2003) Never Said Goodbye (Rough Trade – 2006) Awyren = Aeroplane (mini-album) (My Kung Fu 030 – 2007) Don't Look Down (Rainbow City Recordings – 2009) TIR (Rainbow City Recordings – 2010) Explorer (Rainbow City Recordings – 2011) Baby It's Cold Outside (Rainbow City Recordings − 2012) Hullabaloo (Rainbow City Recordings – 2013) Dylan Thomas: A Child's Christmas, Poems and Tiger Eggs (Marvels of the Universe – 2014) We Come from the Sun with the Hidden Orchestra and 10 poets (Decca Records – 2021) Singles "The Ballad of Tom Jones" (with Space) (1998, UK No. 4) "Caught in the Middle" (2003, UK No. 47) "1-2-3" (2005) "Open Roads" (2006, UK No. 53) "Some Kind of Wonderful" (with Aled Jones) (2007) "Arlington Way" (Rainbow City Recordings − 2009) "Into The Blue"/"Mae Angen Llong Ar Gapten" (Rainbow City Recordings − 2010) "Sweet Magnolia" (Rainbow City Recordings − 2011)[37] Other appearances[edit] Appearances on other original recordings Space – Tin Planet, duetting on "The Ballad of Tom Jones" (1998) Tom Jones – Reload, on "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (1999) They Might Be Giants – Mink Car, guest vocals on "Cyclops Rock" (2001) Aled Jones – Reasons to Believe, duetting on "Some Kind of Wonderful" (2007) The Fron Male Voice Choir – Voices of the Valley: Home, singing "Calon Lan" (2008) MAVIS presents Candi Staton & Cerys Matthews, singing "Nemesis Required" (2010) Appearances on compilations Brand New Boots and Panties!! (2001) – contributed "If I Was With a Woman" Listen to Bob Dylan: A Tribute (2005) – contributed "I Believe in You", a Bob Dylan song from Slow Train Coming Hands Across the Water (2006) – contributed "An Occasional Song" Songs for the Young at Heart (2007) – contributed "White Horses", the theme song to The White Horses Over the Rainbow (2007) – contributed "Secret Love" Bibliography[edit] Hook, Line and Singer, Matthews' collection of singalong classics published by Penguin, became a top-3 Sunday Times bestseller in 2013. The book includes personal anecdotes and song histories. Song examples are "Let's Go Fly a Kite", "Oh Susannah", and "Swing Low Sweet Chariot". 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