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Thread #57598   Message #907562
Posted By: sian, west wales
11-Mar-03 - 02:34 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Gwylym's Delight
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gwylym's Delight
Ummm... but except for Keys, they're all the same! Anyway, that IS Cainc or Conset Dafydd ap Gwilym. It is in Blodau'r Grug and is often the second tune played in the Dawns Gwyl Ifan (St John's Feast Dance); the first being a tune called Hunting the Hare (Hela'r Sgwarnog). And if you tried to dance Dawns Gwyl Ifan at JC's speed, you'd need to do it in MUCH lower gravity or figure out how to stay suspended in air ... A twmpath is a folk dance, a stomp. It's also a grassy knoll where the locals did do meet for ... well, dancing (among other things) on Midsummer's Eve. Gwyl Ifan is now the big day for dance teams around Wales to hold folkdances. Great day out!

sian