Gruff Rhys: American Interior Q&A

In 1792, John Evans, a twenty-two-year-old farmhand from Snowdonia, Wales, travelled to America to discover whether there was indeed, as widely believed, a tribe of Welsh-speaking native Americans still walking the great plains.

In 2012, Gruff Rhys set out on an 'investigative concert tour' of the US in the footsteps of his distant relative John Evans. 2014 saw the release of American Interior - an album, book and film documenting this search. 11 years later Gruff revisits the story of these journeys, an exploration of how wild fantasies interact with hard history and how myth-making can inspire humans to partake in crazy, vain pursuits of glory, including exploration, war and the creative arts.

“A joyous and poignant celebration of the mythical and the real” Caught by the River