Recorded at Dartington College of Arts in July 2010, Canu Rhydd is the fifth studio album by Welsh folk group Fernhill.

[1] Described by Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 1 as "another wonderful Fernhill album"[citation needed], and by Verity Sharp on BBC Radio 3's Late Junction as "a very beautiful album"[citation needed], Canu Rhydd is the first of the groups' albums to feature Christine Cooper on fiddle and spoken word.

She joins the existing line-up of Julie Murphy, Ceri Rhys Matthews, and Tomos Williams, all of whom appeared on the band's previous, live album, Na Prádle.

All their previous albums were released on Tim Healey's Beautiful Jo Records, based in Oxford, England.

They are, according to Julian May in a Songlines review of the album, "concerned not with the culture of past aristocratic patronage but the expression of the ordinary people of Wales.