Meredydd Evans: Welsh Folk Songs

In 1954, Meredydd Evans recorded his landmark album Welsh Folk Songs. Since then, Evans has created a long and distinguished career as a professor of philosophy, writer, performer, television producer and above all, advocate for the Welsh language and culture.

Click here to learn more about Meredydd Evans. http://folkways.si.edu/magazine/index.aspx

Click here to hear samples and purchase music from "Welsh Folk Songs" http://folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=1200

Click here for more information about Wales Smithsonian Cymru, the 2009 Smithsonian Folklife Festival program. http://www.festival.si.edu/2009/wales/index.aspx

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[awstrali]

the welsh heritage is the best in the world, im proud to be welsh and even more to speak the language of my fatherland.

[Gwallteriedig77]

Waw! Anhygoel!!

[thestrangewizard]

Fucking hell nationalism is seriously dumb. Your nationality is not "the best in the world". Stop making the rest of us look dumb.

[TassieLute]

It is wonderful but I wish they didn't have singing and speaking at the same time. I want to hear both and with them together I hear neither very well.

[yippitydodah]

bluddy 'ell, where is my hanky, tears are streaming.

[dianeowen]

@Lillianux: You can do it! There is a really excellent free online course called Say Something In Welsh (you can find it by Googling). It genuinely works, both for learning Welsh from scratch (like me) or for reactivating "buried" Welsh like yours. Plus there's an active and friendly web forum attached.

[Lillianux]

I was raised to speak Welsh by my Grandparents. Unfortunately, my parents did not speak a word, apart from my mammy, but she had lost it too. At 35, I need to learn it again.

[Irishborne]

the man reminds me heavily of my grandad. Slight difference being the fact that my grandad was Irish, not Welsh. Been doing some research on my dad's mum's side of the family and there is a possibility that we have a wlesh strain, but it's far more likely that on that side we're either scottish or most likely even more irish

[NehnaB]

Thank you for placing this.

Is there more  available?

harry