As far back as records go the Welsh have been a singing people, rating a good voice next to royal blood, competing valiantly in song festivals, regarding music and poetry as national sports. Roman ...

The 1983 tune by Dafydd Iwan, a Welsh folk singer, seems to follow the team everywhere. By Andrew Keh The chorus of the song comes crashing down in an irresistible wave. You may not have any clue what ...

A Ceredigion artist represents Wales in the first-ever Folk Album of the Year Award. Owen Shiers aka Cynefin’s new album Shimli, hailed by the Guardian as a 'political antidote to the modern age', is ...

If Welsh folk music is less widely known abroad than its Irish or Scottish counterparts, that is largely down to historical forces: the lack of a significant Welsh diaspora, and the hermetic survival ...

To find out more about the Smithsonian Folkways album "Blodeugerdd" visit http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=3229 Linda Griffiths (Aberystwyth, Wales ...

The latest concert from the Metropolitan Opera is here. It can be viewed through Christmas night. The price of the ticket is $20. Every seat is a good one. I have said “from the Metropolitan Opera,” ...