Nath Trevett

Nath is a guitarist, lutenist and a Quaker who arranges Welsh folk songs, religious songs, songs in other languages and sometimes instrumentals. Nath was born in Bristol in 1986 and raised in Llantrisant from the age of 4. He began to learn the guitar when he was 7, and his interest in folk music started to grow when he was a teenager. Nath studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, where he also learned to play the lute alongside his principal study – the classical guitar – and before graduation, he submitted a portfolio of his own folk arrangements (of tunes which range from Welsh, Scottish and Irish) in place of a dissertation. His biggest influences include artists such as Martin Simpson, Mark Knopfler, Richard Thompson, Dick Gaughan, Davy Graham and Bert Jansch, and since his college days Nath has been arranging folk music of different styles but has focussed mainly on Welsh material as well as Gaelic and German songs.