February 2012
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fernhill at the bbc in glasgow during celtic connections
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Rhôd is an annual exhibition / event that takes place in rural West Wales, UK. One of the main objectives of Rhôd is to site contemporary art in a rural landscape creating a dialogue between urban artists and artists who work in rural settings. This dialogue is taken up by the artworks in their environment and further developed by our audience. Every year a new selection of artists is made by...
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June 2011
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hatao and yscolan playing dewch yn nes (marchant enwog) and a cywydd deuair byrrion of iolo morganwg’s in the kitchen at alltfechan
Jun 29th
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Jun 5th
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May 2011
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yscolan music retreat @ pentre ifan, west wales. ... →
yscolan music retreat at pentre ifan, west wales.  october 21 to october 23, 2011.  clickhere for details. pictures of last autumn’s retreat here
May 20th
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mythologyofblue asked: Thank you.

You're Welsh or Scottish? And play the bagpipes? I was in Scotland and Wales in the past year, twice, both places are quite enchanting.
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April 2011
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my contribution to the holy hiatus symposium in cardigan last year http://www.holyhiatus.co.uk/symposium.html A two-day interdisciplinary symposium took place at the Small World Theatre, Cardigan, west Wales in September 2010 organised in conjunction with PlaCe Research Centre, The University of West England, exploring the vital role that ritual plays in creatively re-imagining places and our...
Apr 5th
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March 2011
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a dance project i'm involved in
http://corelw.tumblr.com/
Mar 7th
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February 2011
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fernhill: froots review of canu rhydd  →
froots review of ‘canu rhydd’ It’s only when a bright shiny new CD comes flying through the letterbox that you remember not only how good fernhill are, but how monstrously underrated they are too. Few have been so committed to bringing Welsh music to the forefront, yet - or maybe because of that - they vary rarely seem to be invited on the annual festival bandwagon. As soon as Julie Murphy’s...
Feb 26th
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January 2011
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the yscolan cd is now available as a download →
Immediate download of yscolan by ceri rhys matthews & beverley evans, with christine cooper, in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire. “The album is a delicious mix of traditional melodies, ambient sounds and spoken word” Verity Sharp - Late Junction - BBC radio 3 Or buy the CD. The CD comes in a beautiful card cover with card insert. Just...
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lisawhitehare asked: Thanks for the follow! As you can see I'm very new to this and wonder if I could ask you about posting poetry - have been trying to post a poem but even in HTML the indents disappear and everything's justified to the left. I noticed your post of Pied Beauty has all the spacings right and wonder how you did it?
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November 2010
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pied beauty
gerard manley hopkins (1844–89)   Pied Beauty   GLORY be to God for dappled things—      For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;        For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;    Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;      Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;               And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.      All things counter, original,...
Nov 12th
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Llifo (excerpt) (by Sean Vicary) music (deildy aberteifi) played on wooden flutes by ceri rhys matthews and diarmuid johnson. additional music by ceri rhys matthews and llio rhydderch teifi pool names spoken by caradog jones
Nov 12th
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Nov 5th
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medieval welsh dance
here are some dances danced at dafydd ap siancyn fychan’s house in carmarthenshire in the fifteenth century. the lines are found in a praise poem to dafydd on his death, by lewis glyn cothi ef a wybu o’i febyd dan y sêr bob dawns o’r byd fflŵr-ddy-brŵm, rheswm yr haf côr y cantor, fu’r cyntaf yr eilwaith, gware orliawns ac o rôn deg arwain dawns dawns y ffrows hyd ynys...
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“I am the song that sings the bird. I am the leaf that grows the land. I am the...”
– “I am the song”, Charles Causley (via doodledreamer)
Oct 21st
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“They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest Uncoffined — just as found: His landmark...”
– The Drummer Hodge by Thomas Hardy (via melvinmelbourne)
Oct 21st
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Oct 16th
finding a horse
simon whitehead and i will be finding a horse in cardiff this sunday. Sun 17 Oct 5pm Following a week of dialogue in the village of Abercych, Pembrokeshire, movement artist Simon Whitehead (Pings, 2 Miles an Hour) and composer and musician Ceri Rhys Matthews (seen before at Chapter with his band Fernhill) arrive at Experimentica with some thoughts, songs, dances and images evolved from a shared...
Oct 14th
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yscolan on discogs! →
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Oct 5th
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over carn llidi
blown, rooks, like fungal spores, attempt to flock, wind-conducted, describing arcs, chords, melodies, as mysterious now as when echoed by the first flute 
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