"Dafydd y Garreg Wen" / "David of the White Rock" (David Lloyd - Tenor)

David Lloyd (1912-1969).
Born in Trelogan, Flintshire, Wales.
Considered as one of the finest Welsh voices of all time.
Here, he performs an English translation of the Welsh folk song, 'Dafydd y Garreg Wen', accompanied by the Welsh Guards Band (Conductor: T.S. Chandler).

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• Cymraeg
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• David of the White Rock

[espeecee]

sung in welsh during Coventry Peace Festival 12/11/2011 at the Songs of the Nations - Music Unites us concert by the Nightingales

[3tangle3]

@CinnAlla Dont worry I am not attacking people born today..........we are all born ignorant lol..........my dad isnt even welsh perse..........but I believe anyone can learn welsh culture and be accepted..........most of us islanders have DNA from older basque/western atlantic origins anyway (genetical historian ftw) ;)

Heddwch/Peace

[CinnAlla]

@3tangle3 No, I grant you that, but a word such as 'bullying' implies a deliberation which is not necessarily present in a cultural process. No English-speaker of recent generations would wish to see Welsh disappear. All schoolchildren in Wales are given instruction in the Welsh language (including a former colleague of mine whose kids were born and brought up in Northern Ireland); many English people who move to Welsh-speaking areas make an effort to learn Welsh (as friends of mine did).

[3tangle3]

@CinnAlla I never said its a conspiracy.........its a state of fact

[CinnAlla]

@3tangle3 What you're remarking on is nothing more sinister than the cultural strength of English. It's regrettable (where its strength weakens another language) but it's not a conspiracy. This happens in the history of language. If it didn't then we would all be speaking the same Indo-European language from the Indus to the Hebrides.

[3tangle3]

@CinnAlla its sad that everyone has to integrate into being english and never the other way round....just a communication format for sharing info/data like anyother language.........the difference is the bigger bully wins.........so thats why so many welsh famous songs are in english ;)

[3tangle3]

@griffcats hes one of the best ever

[kashmir1967]

diolch yn fawr-rare pleasure to hear such a fine voice

[CinnAlla]

@griffcats During WW2 David Lloyd had no professional singing engagements because he was serving in the Welsh Guards. He resumed his singing career in 1946. On another point, a good transcription of a song from one language to another can only widen the audience enriched by the music.

[griffcats]

Wow what a pleasure to find this rare jewel. When I first traveled through Wales in 1977, David Lloyd was recommended to me as a great Welsh singer, and I brought home a tape which I listened to over and over. His life was a story of extreme hardship, and tragic death. He was also forbidden by the GOVT to sing in Welsh during WWII as he had a strong rebellious Welsh following. It's almost a crime to Welsh to sing this in English.