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Folk singer Meic Stevens said he doesn't want to play in Caernarfon again after comments he made about Muslims during his last show there sparked outcry.

The row broke out after the Nos Du Nos Da singer's performance in the town last weekend, during which he remarked on there "only being a handful of white people" on his granddaughter's school bus in Cardiff, adding that "most of them were Muslims".

Caernarfon-born singer Sera Owen, who was at the concert, said she and her boyfriend left after hearing “two people in the back cheering the comments.”

Speaking to North Wales Live, Mr Stevens - who denied any suggestion his comments were anti-Muslim - said: "I don't want to play in Caernarfon again - I've got a gig coming up there that I don't think I'm going to do now."

Mr Stevens performed at the town's Market Hall on Sunday as part of the Gŵyl Arall festival, and his comments caused a social media storm.

A recording from the concert has now been released, revealing what was said by the singer during his set.

On the recording, he says: "Well, half of the people living in this country aren't from here anyway these days. They come from every... On the bus from picking my daughter up from school you see, down in Cardiff. Well, there were some four or five or six white people on the bus.

"The rest, and the bus was crammed you know, were all people of colour. Most of them Muslims you know.

"I live in Cardiff, well I know Cardiff, but that's what I see you know. If you say something you think they call you a bloody racist you know. But I'm not bloody racist, I'm just saying what I see with my eyes.

"Well, oh Christ, Canton. Shy Welsh people like to live in Canton, Pontcanna, but most people living in Canton are Muslims. About three thousand Welsh-speaking Welsh people live there, no I wouldn't say that, two thousand Welsh-speaking people live there, and three thousand English people.

"I called them yuppies, 'cause when I lived on Conway Road it was cheap to live there. But now the houses are worth at least half a million, or close to a million for houses that are very, very small. It's really weird, you know.

"But most of the people on the street in Cowbridge Road are Muslims, there's no doubt about it.

"And I'm... well... what's going to happen here."

Mr Stevens made the comments after finishing a re-worked version of his classic, 'Y Brawd Houdini', in which he replaced the final chorus with "Oh, only me and Donald Duck" and "Trump, Trump, Trump-uddy Trump" lampooning the American president before signing off, decrying "Boris and bloody Donald".

The 77-year-old has been removed from the line-ups of the Green Man Festival.

Following their decision, the organisers of Green Man Festival issued a statement saying: "Any form of disrespect to others is not acceptable, and in light of his recent comments Meic Stevens will no longer be playing Green Man."

Mr Stevens said: "I'm losing work because of what a handful of people have said on social media."

The singer added that he "has not had any contact with Green Man" following his removal from the line-up, and says he he also believes the controversy is behind the cancellation of his appearance in Dolgellau, which had been booked by the Sesiwn Fawr committee.

When approached by North Wales Live after the Gwyl Arall concert, Mr Stevens rejected any suggestion of racism, saying: "What I said has clearly been misinterpreted. I made an observation, that was all.

“I often converse with the audience in between songs. I wasn’t making any big statements - I was just remarking on what I’d seen the other day.”

He added he "doesn't give a s**t about race", saying: "I used to live in the Bay in Cardiff, one of the most diverse areas in the country at the time and have had many friends of different ethnicities over the years. I'm not racist."