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🗣️🎶🏴 We are delighted to welcome Dr Rhiannon Ifans and her singing partner Trefor Pugh to Cornwall to give a talk and workshop about Welsh plygain carol singing and the accompanying traditional carol service, as part of Cornwall's Celtic Festival, Lowender! Details below.🎟 Booking is essential: to reserve your spot please email [email protected] (first come first served)
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💻 This venue does not have step free access, but we're hoping to be able to facilitate virtual attendance - watch this space for details!
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Dr Rhiannon Ifans’ main field of research is medieval Welsh literature. Other research interests include Welsh folk life and folk culture, carols, Welsh theatre (with special reference to the eighteenth-century interludes), and the assessment of Welsh publishing. She is also an award-winning novelist and children’s author.
Trefor Pugh is a hill farmer in mid-Wales. He has been singing plygain carols at church services since he was three years old, as did his mother and other generations of his family. He is one of the leading exponents of traditional Welsh folk singing, and is former Chair of the Welsh Cerdd Dant Society (singing a counter melody over a harp melody).
This session will focus on the Welsh folk carol, traditionally sung at a church service held in the early hours of Christmas morning, latterly at evening gatherings throughout December and January and followed by a community supper. Welsh traditional carols are strictly orthodox poems, and at one time played an important part in the religious education of a semi-literate people. Today’s session will describe the content and preservation of Welsh plygain carols, the order of service, the informal order of performance, and will feature unaccompanied singing of centuries-old carols as well as more modern examples.
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Kevrennow is an initiative between the Institute of Cornish Studies and the Rescorla Centre which seeks to explore and celebrate links ('kevrennow' in Cornish) between Cornwall and Wales.
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Murdoch House - Redruth, Murdoch House, Cross Street,Redruth, United Kingdom
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