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8 January – Proposals are published to give Members of the Senedd a 6% pay rise, taking the wages for a backbench MS to £76,380 in 2025-26, up from £72,057. [ 13 ] 16 January – Holyhead Port is scheduled to partially reopen following damage caused by Storm Darragh in December 2024.
List of festivals in Wales, organised by month, including location. February. Dydd Miwsig Cymru [1] [2] March. Laugharne Weekend [3] April. Machynlleth Comedy ...
In March 2022, Focus Wales organised a showcase event at the Swan Dive, in Austin, Texas, to promote six artists from Wales. [30] In May 2022, the festival backed Wrexham County Borough's UK City of Culture 2025 bid, [31] although it lost to Bradford. In March 2023, the festival assisted in launching the Welsh Music Abroad initiative to promote ...
The Green Man Festival is an independent music, science and arts festival held annually in mid-August in the Brecon Beacons, Wales. Green Man has evolved into a 25,000 capacity week long event, showcasing predominantly live music (in particular alternative , indie , rock , folk , dance and Americana ).
England A Albion Fairs Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk All Points East Appleby Jazz Festival Arundel Festival B Bolton food festival Barnes Film Festival Bath Fringe Festival Bath International Music Festival Bath Literature Festival Beached Festival in Scarborough Bedford Fringe Festival - 2023 will be 16th year Bedford River Festival Big Chill Festival in Eastnor Birmingham: ArtsFest, Book ...
26 March – Wales emerge winners of the 2021 Six Nations Championship after Scotland defeat France in the final match of the championship. [ 88 ] 26 July – Lauren Williams becomes the first Welsh athlete to win a medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, when she wins a silver medal in the Women's Taekwondo.
These are festivals that were once widely celebrated in Wales but are no longer so. Gŵyl Fair y Canhwyllau, or Candlemas, usually on the 2 February, literally translates as "Mary's Festival of the Candles" marks the presentation of Jesus at the Temple. It is based upon the account of the presentation of Jesus in Luke 2:22–40.
However the National Eisteddfod of Wales as an organisation traces its history back to the first event held in 1861, in Aberdare. [10] [11] One of the most dramatic events in Eisteddfod history was the award of the 1917 chair to the poet Ellis Humphrey Evans, bardic name Hedd Wyn, for the poem Yr Arwr (The Hero). The winner was announced, and ...