The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #105200   Message #2165033
Posted By: Mick Tems
06-Oct-07 - 07:58 AM
Thread Name: songs on emigration
Subject: RE: songs on emigration
...Which reminds me: On our many American tours, Calennig played a show at the University of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, put on by Jack and Sandy Pritchard of the Welsh Society. The mark left by those emigrant Welsh miners was starkly obvious - we looked out at Nanticoke, and it was just like the Rhondda Valley, only much grander! Pennsylvania is peppered with Welsh names, and Nanticoke seemed a Welshier name than most - but we were wrong. It seemed that Nanticoke was an American Native chief, who sold the land to the settlers!

Mick Tems