In 1792, John Evans, a twenty-two-year-old Welsh farmhand from Snowdonia, travelled to America to discover whether the fabled a Welsh-speaking Native American tribe (The Madogwys) were still walking the Great Plains.
In the summer of 2012, over two hundred years later, Gruff Rhy himself a distant relative of Evans retraced the explorer’s route through the heart of the continent by means of an Investigative Concert Tour, a series of solo gigs that saw him accompanied by little more than acoustic guitar, PowerPoint presentation and a three-foot high felt avatar of John Evans designed by artist and long-time collaborator Pete Fowler.
American Interior is a unique project that firmly establishes Rhys as a captivating storyteller, blurring the boundaries and possibilities of songwriting, music, literature, film and technology to create a multisensory experience telling the incredible true story of John Evans.