Three of Britain’s greatest folk musicians are to play a rare hometown concert in Abergavenny next month.

Dylan Fowler, Oli Wilson-Dickson and Nia Lynn are, together, ALAW - feted as one of the new supergroups of modern folk music.

They will appear at The Chapel on December 2.

It promises to be a sell-out as they mix old favourites with material from their long-awaited forthcoming album, Drawn To The Light.

Guitar maestro Dylan Fowler has played with Nigel Kennedy and Richard Thompson among others, but after spending most of his life touring the world, Dylan, who creates much of his astonishing music at his Stiwdio Felin Fach recording studios in Abergavenny, couldn’t be more delighted to be on home turf.

“It’s fantastic to play big capacity concert halls, but in smaller venues you get a real intimacy,” says Dylan.

“The Chapel is a beautiful space, and there’ll be faces I know in the audience.

‘‘It’s both humbling and thrilling.”

Dylan, who spent three years in a duo with Sting’s guitarist Dominic Miller (and co-writer of the international mega-hit Shape Of My Heart) is in exalted company with his Alaw bandmates.

Oli Wilson-Dickson is one of Welsh folk music’s most charismatic violinists - in demand as a performer with the likes of Jools Holland, José Carreras and Jamie Cullum.

He is also Dylan’s stepson (Oli’s mum is the great musician, composer and music therapist Gillian Stevens).

BBC’s Radio 2 magazine describes Oli as “an exceptional fiddler” and the folk magazine Taplas calls him “a master musician who can make his violin sit up and beg.”

Oli now lives about 30 minutes outside Abergavenny and is a former pupil of King Henry VIII school.

The third, and newest, member of Alaw is singer and multi-instrumentalist Nia Lynn – who also studied at King Henry in Abergavenny.

With a performing career effortlessly spanning folk and jazz, Nia has graced some of the great stages of the world - from Ronnie Scott’s to The Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall and The Barbican.

Now she is central not just of the live act but also to Alaw’s much anticipated album Drawn to the Light.

It is a bilingual masterpiece (in Welsh it’s Denwyd i’r Goleuni) with an accompanying booklet you read from one end in Welsh and from the other in English.

“Playing and recording with Dylan and Oli, you need to be right at the top of your game,” says Nia.

“And in a live show, no matter how much we rehearse, they’ll always throw an unexpected piece of brilliance into the mix.

‘‘My job is to keep them on their toes as well. This is going to be a great, great night.”

Tickets are £16 (students £12; children £8) and are available from The Art Shop and at the Chapel (artshopandgallery.co.uk), with booking essential.

For more info on Alaw please visit alaw-band.com