The singer-songwriter and ‘contemporary folk balladeer’ Chris Jones was brought up in Cwm y Glo near Caernarfon in north Wales, but graduated in Fine Art at Bristol University before spending a period as a Life Drawing teacher. He had started singing traditional Welsh songs unaccompanied, but then learnt to play the guitar and picked up songs from all the Celtic countries and England as a student. He then started arranging the songs to suit his own unique style of playing from singing in folk festivals and sessions.