Tag Archives: Wales

Crasdant in concert

Posted on 8th April 2016 by Vonnie

Crasdant plays music to warm your heart and tells tales to tickle your funnybone. This Welsh band played on a wet windy night that, they said, reminded them of home. The two sets of instrumental music for flute, harp, fiddle, and … Continue reading →

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 Llio Rhydderch’s Telyn 

Posted on 8th April 2016 by Jo Morrison

Fans of Robin Huw Bowen and the Welsh triple-harp tradition should check out Llio Rhydderch, who studied and toured with the fabled Nansi Richards. For the uninitiated, an explanation is in order. The Welsh have a drastically different style of … Continue reading →

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Welsh Music: Ar Log’s Goreuon Ar Log, Meic Stevens’s Icarws and Steve Eaves’ Moelyci 

Posted on 8th April 2016 by Robert

The more I am exposed to the various traditions of the world’s art and music, the more I credit Joseph W. Campbell’s observations, from The Flight of the Wild Gander, on the processes of folklore: in spite of the urge to … Continue reading →

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Donna R. White’s A Century of Welsh Myth in Children’s Literature

Posted on 9th March 2016 by Kim Bates

The prospect of an adult discussion of some of my favorite childhood authors has great appeal, if only because it legitimates my occasional re-reading of Alan Garner and Lloyd Alexander as an adult. Although my adult self wishes to quarrel … Continue reading →

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