Hafana describes their harp music as "sad Welsh harp pop" and has produced merchandise featuring this phrase. Hafana summarized a method they use to source works to adapt during a performance at
Showcase Scotland in 2023 [links added]: I spend a lot of time on the
Welsh National Library's online ballads database, like any cool person with lots of friends. And I like going looking for, sort of old folk-songs and ballads and poems, that have pretty much died out, and aren't really sung today. The next [song] I'm gonna do is one of those; it was written by a guy called "Benjamin" in 1858, and it describes his experience of watching
Comet Donati – which was the second brightest comet of the 19th-century, for those of you who didn't know – and it's like a 7-page epic about this comet; I've cut it down a bit. Paul Carr and Robert Smith of the
University of South Wales have described Hafana as "one of the most original voices in contemporary
Welsh folk music."
Jude Rogers of
The Guardian has described them as "a master of the Welsh triple harp" who "explores resonances from the past that connect with the modern day." == Personal life ==