Coincidentally, I've just had an e-mail from a friend (who is working on a history of Welsh folk music for University of Wales Press) in which she says:**** You will be pleased to know that The Book is at last rolling along again after a long very dry spell. I have just finished the section where I discuss the tunes connected with 18th century calendar customs such as Mari Lwyd, Hela'r Dryw, Calennig, Gwyl Fair, Caneuon y Crempog et al --- I have collected 19 Mari Lwyd tunes, 13 Hela'r Dryw ("Hunting the Wren"), well over a dozen tri thrawiad and triban tunes associated with Gwyl Fair etc etc and they all have to be analysed and discussed. Now I can at last go forward to the Christmas and May carols. It'll be a nice change!
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She also gave a lecture on Wren Hunting last August in an ethnomusicology lecture in Bangor (N.Wales) for which I sent her some info from Mudcat. I'll have to point her in this direction again ...
sian