The Joy Formidable consists of only three musicians, but the trio from north Wales made a formidable noise Friday during their late-afternoon set at the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience. Featuring ...

Logistical accidents are the best kind, as The Joy Formidable singer and guitarist Ritzy Bryan can attest. While touring in 2011 behind their raucous, critically acclaimed debut, The Big Roar, the U.K ...

It's late August and Joy Formidable singer-songwriter-guitarist Rhiannon "Ritzy" Bryan is at a Los Angeles storage unit digging through the band's equipment. Bryan and her band mates — bassist Rhydian ...

For a "y'all come" choir, Richmond's One Voice Chorus is singing some formidable music. The group will perform Handel's "Messiah" on Sunday. That's the full Messiah, not just the Christmas or Easter ...

It’s just so apropos: The Joy Formidable make their grand entrance into the full-length playing field with a record titled The Big Roar. If not a chuckle, the moniker warrants at least a little smile.

Ritzy Bryan and Rhydian Dafydd grew up together in North Wales and formed their first band, Tricky Nixon, while living in Manchester. When that outfit split up, in 2006, the two wasted little time in ...