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The most common Welsh folk song is the love song, with lyrics pertaining to the sorrow of parting or in praise of the girl. A few employ sexual metaphor and mention the act of bundling. After love songs, the ballad was a very popular form of song, with its tales of manual labour, agriculture and the everyday life.
A well known Welsh folk music group is Ar Log: "By the early eighties Ar Log was travelling Europe and North & South America for around nine months of the year with a wealth of traditional Welsh folk music at our disposal, from haunting love songs and harp airs, to melodic dance tunes, and rousing sea shanties." [3]
Pages in category "Welsh folk songs" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ar Hyd y Nos;
Welsh Folk-Songs is the first album by Welsh folk music singer and collector Meredydd Evans, consisting of a cappella renditions of traditional Welsh-language folk songs.The album was recorded in New Hope, Pennsylvania after Moses Asch, founder of Folkways Records, contacted Evans, who was then studying at Princeton University.
The song contributed to support for a National Assembly for Wales (later renamed Senedd) and in 1997 the Welsh electorate voted in favour of Welsh devolution. [5] In January 2020, the song reached number one in the UK iTunes chart, spurred on by purchases by supporters of Welsh independence group YesCymru .
Welsh folk songs (1 C, 17 P) Welsh patriotic songs (8 P) Pages in category "Welsh songs" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
The Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes is a composition for symphonic orchestra, based on traditional Welsh nursery tunes and lullabies, composed by Grace Williams in 1940. . Although not typical of Williams' work it brought her to prominence and is the composer's most popular
The earliest version of "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" in the hand of the composer, James James, 1856"Glan Rhondda" ("Banks of the Rhondda"), as it was known when it was composed, was first performed in the vestry of the original Capel Tabor, Maesteg (which later became a working men's club), in either January or February 1856, by Elizabeth John from Pontypridd, and it soon became popular in the locality.