Showing posts with label Welsh Language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Welsh Language. Show all posts

Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Ancestral Voices From Afar...*

No, not really.  Any Celtic heritage I have is Irish rather than Welsh, but I spent a formative time in Wales when at university - seven years all told (I'm a slow reader).

I was having one of my nights sitting up, doing nothing when I had a sudden craving for Welsh music.  Now,  generations of male voice choirs have given Welsh music a bad rep ("And he sings far too loud, far too often, and flat!") but it has been rescued of late:-


And if you can rescue Myfanwy - that most maudlin of songs** - you are a true genius! I've been across to Amazon and ordered Tir on the strength of it.

If you're in the mood for something a little more stirring and stereotypical (I can't believe I've written that something's more stereotypical than Myfanwy!)


And finally, something a little more fun..



*A small dollop of kudos to the first to give the sources of both the title of this post and the quotation about Welsh singing without referring to Google (truly Ancestral Voices!)

**With apologies to those who sit in the Danny Boy camp.

Saturday, 29 September 2012

This Week's Interesting Obits


Eileen Beasley (d. 12 Aug 2012)  Welsh Language campaigner - 'the Rosa Parks of Wales' 
Independent 29 Sep 2012







Charlie Daley (d. 27 Jun 2012).  Survivor of the Wormhout massacre.


Herbert Lom (d. 27 Sep 2012).  Actor.
Daily Telegraph 28 Sep 2012
Guardian 28 Sep 2012 
Independent 28 Sep 2012


 

Princess Ragnhild of Norway(d. 16 Sep 2012).
Daily Telegraph 23 Sep 2012