Bard of Ely

Bard of Ely is a singer-songwriter, author, poet, freelancer, environmentalist and naturalist from Cardiff, Wales, now living in Tenerife, where, under his real name Steve Andrews, he has written for the Tenerife News newspaper and Living Tenerife magazine. He is quoted as a "weed expert" in The Ecologist.

In the UK, he has written for Kindred Spirit, Permaculture and Feed Your Brain magazines, and, collaborated with CJ Stone, for Prediction and the NFOP magazine. He had a column in the Big Issue, and it was this publication that dubbed him Bard of Ely.

As Steve Andrews, he is the author of Herbs of the Northern Shaman.

The Bard's song You're a Liar, Nicky Wire was featured on BBC R1 Session in Wales, rave reviewed in the NME and released on Crai Records on the Taffia EP.

Bard of Ely was a co-presenter of two series of In Full View on Choice and he has appeared on many more TV programs on the BBC, BBC2 and HTV.

In 2002 and 2003, the Bard was a compère for the Avalon Stage at Glastonbury Festival and he has also played at this world famous event. On the same years, he appeared at the Green Man Festival as well.

Bard of Ely is a member of the Loyal Arthurian Warband druid order and, aptly, a Bard of Caer Abiri (Avebury).

Bard of Ely made a name for himself growing exotic fruit when he was on HTV Wales news for having the first homegrown pineapple in Wales.

Bard of Ely has been written about in books by several authors. He is in Fierce Dancing, The Last of the Hippies and Housing Benefit Hill by CJ Stone, as well as The Trials of Arthur by Christopher James Stone and Arthur Pendragon, Peter Finch's Real Cardiff, Leonard Cohen: A Remarkable Life by Anthony Reynolds and Lionel Fanthorpe's The World's Most Mysterious People.

Since the spring of 2010, Bard of Ely has been running a fansite for adventurer and environmentalist David de Rothschild.

Music videos for the Bard's songs can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/bardofely Bard of Ely's new album is available from DMMG Records here: http://dmmg.webs.com/ and available for download from iTunes.

Proving you can make money on hubpages Bard of Ely was featured by Ryan Hupfer at the Payout Chronicles.

He has another hubpage account that is all about Tenerife and is called: Tenerife Islander. Another of his sites about Tenerife is at http://www.tenerifeisland.org/

Bard of Ely's blog is at: http://bardofelysays.blogspot.com/

Here is Bard of Ely's  LinkedIn CV and profile page.

The Bard has a  fanpage at Facebook and you can catch up on his tweets at: http://twitter.com/bardofely

Artwork for avatar pic by Paco de Colmenar at http://www.myspace.com/paco_mac

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