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Thread #100828 Message #2027636
Posted By: Mick Tems
17-Apr-07 - 06:52 AM
Thread Name: Radio Britfolk
Subject: RE: Radio Britfolk
Anne Lister and I are putting together a series of 30-minute programmes entitled Dragonfire, which will concentrate on the scene from Wales. I'm already mulling over a selection including Sian Phillips' delightful Welsh Fiddle Festival at Pembroke; Tredegar House International Folk Festival at Newport; the Small Nations Festival at Cil-y-cwm; Fishguard Folk Festival; Gower Folk festival at Parkmill; Pontardawe International Festival; Gwyl Sesiwn Fawr at Dolgellau; and Beyond The Border Festival at St Donats, with a plethora of Welsh and international storytellers. I want to tell the world about the magnificent triple-harper Robin Huw Bowen and the breathtaking, absolutely cracking threesome of musicians who Robin plays with, called Crasdant; Ty Siamas, a state-of-the-art national folk centre, based at Dolgellau; Mered Evans and Phyllis Kinney; Tudur Huws Jones; Huw Chidgey and Katherine Handley; Pat Smith and Ned Clamp; Durum; Guto Dafis; Gwerinos; Sian James; Bob Delyn, Delyth Jenkins, the wonderful Llio Rhydderch; Parti Cut Lloi; Ceri Rhys Matthews and his work with the highly original Fernhill...
I'm naming items off the top of my head, here - but Anne and I are quietly confident that if we can persuade you to move to Wales, then we'll have done our job!