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  • Joseph Parry was born in Merthyr Tydfil, but moved to Pennsylvania where he was an Iron worker. The Welsh community was very strong in Pennsylvania, and the National Festival of Wales is in Scranton this year. Parry eventually went back to Swansea, and had a music publishing house there. His music is fantastic, he's overlooked because he wrote in Welsh.

  • And , as everyone knows, the tune was written in Danville, Pennsylvania. BTW Penn is NOT and English name either.

  • Beautiful!

  • Karezza6 don't go back. It must have even a wet nightmare.

  • diolch yn fawr iawn .. roedd yn gân hyfryd. Roeddwn i'n hoffi ei.

  • You do realise that all those castles in the video were built by the English, to suppress the Welsh? I

  • @ocserfal Conwy was indeed, but it was also the site of a glorious triumph by Rhys and Gwilym ap Tudor in 1403 when they took it from the English in a very daring raid. Also Dolbadarn, the Keep that is the main picture, was built by Llewellyn the Great in the 13th century and Owain Glyndwr imprisioned English noblemen in it during his rebellion. It is a fantastic place overlooking lake padarn. I have to get back there next year, its too enchanting a place to be away for so long.

  • @ocserfal No they weren't actually! So before commenting THINK and LEARN a bit of history!

  • @ocserfal Oh, yeah, but we gorrom now tho, donwe, like.

  • @ocserfal but they didn't succeed did they

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  • @ocserfal and besides how do you know they were built by the english to suppress the welsh, were you there ?

  • Thank you. the song and rendition are beautiful.

  • I UNDERSTAND IT WAS AN ENGLISHMAN WHO COMPOSED MYFAWNY. AM I RIGHT? OR MAYBE HE PENNED THE WORDS IN ENGLISH? IN ANY LINGO, THIS SONG SOUNDS JUST AS NICE AS IN WELSH!! OH, AND THIS SAME ENGLISH MAN ALSO PENNED THE WORDS TO OUR EQUALLY-BEAUATIFUL DANNY BOY!! THANKS AGAIN FOR A LOVELY VIDEO.

    JUNE 1, 2011.

  • @squirell1952 Joseph Parry, was a Welshman from Merthyr who came to the US at 13, and became an ironworker in Pennsylvania, who wrote Myfanwy. He eventually returned to Wales and became a professor at the Univ of Wales. I have some old music he published at his own company in Abertawe. He was a brilliant song writer who wrote many hymns which are sung every day all over the world. He also wrote a wonderful opera, BLODWEN, but its seldom performed because it is all in welsh.

  • Bravo. Hyfryd (lovely).

  • Lovely song, beautifully sung. Good voice, too.

  • I just recently found out about my Welsh heritage, ah, beautiful

  • Wonderful, a great song sung with heart and passion.

  • Simply amazing.

  • Hyfryd iawn, Diolch

    Aled

  • Thank you sooo much - this brought tears to my eyes. I love Wales and everything Welsh. I have lived here for the past 14 years and it's beautiful - the people are warm and beautiful too. I am orginally from the Caribbean and I've found out my great grandfather was from the Vale of Glamorgan! No wonder I've fallen in love with Wales! : ) May this beautiful country prosper forever. Thanks again for this lovely rendition.

  • @Loveheals2 What is it with we Welsh? We don't seem to be haters like some others in other parts of UK (Canada or USA). We are acceptant of others. I live in Canada. I think it may be we have learned important lessons from being suppressed for many wish for & believe in a United Ireland.

    Aled

  • fantastic rendition. da iawn

  • Bravo - you brought a lump to my throat. Excellent pronunciation and diciton and all the places in your photos are so familiar to me. I take my hat off to you. You made me homesick. More please...

    A Welsh ex patriate.

  • @snaej2 thank you fof the kind comment, cheers

  • Bravo! Well done - your pronunciation and diction are excellent and you brought a lump to my throat. The places featured in your photos are all so familiar to me. A Welsh ex-patriate. More, please...

  • The song is enjoyable, your voice is lovely and your diction is great.  It will help me sing this in our choir and hopefully we will do it justice.

  • :D My girl! I just learned that one...

  • Castell Conwy yn y lluniau! Prydferth o le (:

  • Welsh lessons on my page people :) lovely song :)

  • I think this is brilliant - X-factor or what? He should have been on it and he would have won hands down. I am half Welsh. Really lovely.

  • I have to thank you deeply for that comment. Im no Rhydian, but the Welsh is so beautiful to sing, and when the weather is right, Wales is a dream of a place to be! Hope I can return again.

  • @griffcats the weather is always right! Thats part of the beauty!! :D)

  • Rhys ere an sooo fuckin proud to be welsh

  • Castles? Huh? There are more castles per square mile in Wales than anywhere on earth. Those Normans had  a dickens of a job stealing the country out from under the Welsh people. They never did succeed.

    Aled

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  • Tydi hynny ddim yn gwneud synnwyr oherwydd cestyll seisneigedd ydi'r mwyafrif o'r cestyll yng Nghymru.

  • The Saxons overcame the Romano British,, because they had been softened up (smart enough to adapt)by the easy living of the Romans. If the Normans succeeded it was because of the immense investment in castles and money. My Welsh is not good enough but it is amazing that after hundreds of years of occupation and efforts to destroy it

    the Welsh language is surviving and growing (the only Celtic language to do so). This is a testimony to the amazing resillience of the people of Wales.

    Aled Owen

  • @ifuliki well said..CAB

  • My friend,

    I will debate that with you in English but according to what I learned through my reading and in history my comments make perfect sense. Do you have a reference from a reputable historian?

    Aled Owen

  • yli'r clown dwim yn mynd i watsad fidios ar iwtiwb er mwyn cael darlith hanes iawn. dwi ond yn son am y cestyll sydd yn y fidio! Felly mae'r ymatebiad rwyf wedi ei gael yn amherthnasol. Er enghraifft castell caenarfon wedi ei adeiladu gan edward y 1af brenin LLOEGR. Dwi ddim yn mynd i ddweud dim mwy achos dwi ddim yn berson trist sydd heb fywyd ac yn cael rhyw ddadl fabiadd dros y we.

  • dyna ni 2 funud o fy mywyd dwi byth yn mynd i gael yn ol. Biti.

  • Da da iawn - diolch

  • da iawn...

    i love living and breathing welsh air and listening to a brill version of myfanwy,diolch

    cymru am byth

  • what upsets me, is these young welsh people giving their children stupid 'celebrity' names names likes Harvey and Brad.....it's really killing off welsh culture

  • Well some of the old beautiful and poetic Welsh names like Myfanwy have returned. Mystery and beauty are very attractive to me, love the old names, so distinctive and powerful.

  • im a 13 year old welsh girl called Gwen and i speak welsh :]

  • my son is called dylan thomas, nothing to do with the poet,, we named him dylan coz of course we're welsh and love it, also Thomas was after my bamp :) i'm welsh through and through the only down side i speak very little welsh :(

  • I am 7/16th welsh. My grandma said I had too thick oh a scandi /german tounge to learn Welsh as a child. Now is the time for me to pass a bit of the heritage along to my kids. I play guitar . Is there any place anyone can tell me where I can learn to play welsh song - in able to pass along the culture to my children??

  • Where do you live?? By the way there is no such thing as having a too thick toung to speak welsh!! You could even learn it now.

  • I live close to Seattle - My Welsh ancestors came here originally in the 1850-60's to (you guessed it) mine coal. When I was a child alot of the "old timmers" spoke Welsh. The singing was marvelous!! - Thanks giving me a chance to remember a wonderful childhood.

    Blessings be Yours

  • Are there are welsh groups/societies in seattle?? Ever thought of visiting the Old country? it's changed a lot, if you do visit don't bother with Cardiff it's all fake and doesn't feel like wales! Come during the National Eisteddfod

  • Nais.

  • Thoroughly enjoyed Myfanwy, thank you.

    Excellent recording with very good supporting pictures. I am a devoted fan of David Keith Jones as well. Keep going,best wishes,Roy Lewis

  • arddechog bachgen, da iawn.

  • Lovely.

    Despite being Welsh, I can't sing!

  • I am partly English (one of my ancestors went astray) so I can't sing on Mondays. C'mon now. Everybody can sing. You don't have to be a Gigli, Try it in the bathroom where the acoustics are great.

    Aled

  • Da iawn Rhisiart. Well accompanied and expressively sung with accurate intonation and pronunciation. The stills were excellent. Congratulatons on the viewing figures! Much enjoyed .

  • Wish I had your skill and power. Listened to your rendition of Lola again, tremendous range and sound you have, diolch yn fawr!

  • Diolch am dy sylw, ond diffuant wyt ti - thanks for your comment, but you are sincere, with good pronunciation and intonation. This strikes a chord with viewers which is reflected in your figures.

  • I unfortunately do not understand everything.

    I've been learning for only a few weeks now.

    but this is beautiful!

  • I am not a fluent Welsh speaker, though I have been singing in Welsh a long time. The song is about rejection from a beautiful woman. I understand that part only too well!

  • well, thanks for tellin me.

  • Wonderful - but better with a choir....plenty on Youtube

  • thank you. I first heard the Dunvant Welsh choir sing this some years ago, and have been in love with the song ever since. When the balance of tenors and basses is just right,  there is such a great feeling from this song, so satisfying and pure in the blend of music and words. Joseph Parry was brilliant.

  • I agree that a male voice choir can sing this amazingly. But don't underestimate the Solo Singer and the amount of passion they can put into it!

  • well done on the singing

    cymru am byth

  • Diolch!

  • mae'r Gymraeg yn iaith bert iawn, rydw i yn falch iawn o allu sefyll lan a dweud fy mod yn dod o Gymru ac yn gallu siarad Cymraeg, yr iaith hynaf yn Ewrop!!

  • I have to agree. I sing in Italian, English and German besides Welsh, and for some reason songs sound the best in Welsh. Italian is a close second, but the range of expressiveness in the Welsh Language is a singers delight.

  • My heritage from wales, too bad im a fat american slob that knows nothing of my homeland :P im trying to change that though. (not saying all americans are fat slobs.)

  • Well, I have to say Im an american. Im going to keep quiet about my weight. I dont feel superior by studying Welsh culture, but I do enjoy it. The Welsh are the nonconformist, the outsiders, the Ancient, and the revolutionary and survivors together. Its not all pretty but it is a supremely enriching culture to study. My blood is my motive, but Wales by itself is my reward.

  • Everyone wants to be Welsh! ;P

    Rydw i'n dod o Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwy­rndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch!

  • i visited the birthplace of joseph parry yesterday(merthyr)

    my partners family are desendants of him

    the name parry is still used in the family

    (middle names)

  • Fantastic, I have some original sheet music from his publishing company in Abertawe, where he was quite successful. He was accused by critics of not being sophisticated enough but his music went to the heart

  • aww, wi moyn bod yn gymro nawr!!

  • na, americanwyr

  • what do you mean 'americans'? o.O

  • I meant to say I am not a cymro, im an american. Maybe I didnt understand "mi moyn bod"? I have very little Welsh.

  • Oh, I'm really sorry, I didn't realise that! I didn't mean to be delibarately confusing. I just said 'I want to be welsh now!' cause I'm not welsh either.

  • Mae'r gan yma'n hyfryd ac yn gan gwerin adnabyddus iawn yng Nghymru. Am rhyw reswm, rwy'f bob amser yn meddwl am y Prifardd, Hedd Wyn (Elis Humphrey Evans a bu farw yn y Rhyfel Fawr) yn canu'r gan yma i'w gariad a dyma pam mae'r gan hyfryd hon yn gwneud i ddagrau hallt lifo lawr fy ngrudd.

  • My Welsh is poor though I understand your poetic and sensitive comment.You bring up many thoughts I have ancestors from Trawsfynydd, and my uncle morris, a Welsh American with a British detachment, was severely wounded twice in Belguim in 1918. ellis evans had two connections to Myfanwy; a sister of the same name, and his character sings the song in an English pub in the movie. Diolch yn fawr

  • You have ancestors from Trawsfynydd? My father is from Trawsfynydd! and my mother from Bleanau Ffystiniog, though i've lived in England all my life.

    Thanks for posting!

  • my gr grandparents were from Blaenau Ffestiniog and i have visited there a few times, and Ive been to where my Great Grandfather lived on the Griffiths side. The Jones side is from Trefriw, Ysgubor Gerrig. One of my great aunts was from Trawsfynydd, a Roberts. Today I have relatives south of London, who moved there from Wales and i have visited them too. Welsh Music has moved me all my life since my grandfather sang Welsh songs when I was young and tried to help me understand his Welsh bible.

  • Wel done !

  • can yma sydd are y film twin town! pan mar 'ogia yn gal y copars 'nan dol a ma cor yn canu ar y pier!

    CYMRU AM BYTH!

  • this is my great uncle !! woop woop

  • I really enjoyed the song nice vid!

  • good folk song it really brings out the welsh in me. thanks for the post

  • I would have liked to see video instead of pictures but the singing was da iawn boyo.

  • I know, Im just learning how to do this. Ill make changes soon. Diolch

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