I know Siwsi was working on an album exploring the references to birds in Welsh folk songs. She told me once that different birds were "llatai" (love messengers) throughout Welsh history - owls, seagulls, etc in different eras - and that was one thing she was researching. She was trying to get the RSPB to back the album.

I think she actually managed to lay down some backing tracks before she became too ill to carry on. They're with her family. I did try to get someone to take up the project, perhaps with her friends in the folk community filling in the missing elements, but that never happened.

Maybe one day ...

sian, west wales