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Border Morris is a collection of ... much stick-clashing and a big band ... Perhaps in keeping with the original tradition, the Original Welsh Border Morris (founded ...
A mixture of the Mari Lwyd and Wassail customs occurs in the border town of Chepstow, South Wales, every January. A band of English Wassailers meet with the local Welsh Border Morris Side, The Widders, on the bridge in the town. [70] [71] In the 21st century, the revival of the custom has extended to Abergavenny. [72]
A Morris dancer with coloured disguise which was often used by dancers from the borders of Wales and England. The term "Border Morris" was first used by E. C. Cawte in a 1963 article [63] on the Morris dance traditions of Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire: counties along the border with Wales. Characteristics of the tradition as ...
It is thus clear that in Shrewsbury, on the Welsh border, morris dancers were associated with disguise in the 16th century. The explanation of disguise is also given for the blackface in the later periods, and that during the hard winters of the 17th and 18th century, out of work labourers and builders sought to anonymously supplement their ...
1/2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment – part of 53rd (Welsh) Division; [34] joined 4th Division on Western Front November 1914; [37] to 29th Division as pioneer battalion, May 1916 [22] 2/2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment – formed in September 1914 at Pontypool; joined 68th (2nd Welsh) Division and remained in the UK; [24] disbanded ...
Ceri Rhys Matthews – a multi-instrumentalist, plays the pibgorn or Welsh bagpipes, wooden flute, and others Fernhill – a folk band, that features Ceri Rhys Matthews and often employs the pibgorn Carreg Lafar – a traditional Welsh folk group, featuring Antwn Owen Hicks, Linda Owen Jones, Rhian Evan Jones, James Rourke and Danny Kilbride
The band formed with an aim of moving Welsh language popular music away from close-harmony singing which was dominant at the time, to a more rock based sound. The band released 5 albums. [1] In 1974 the band released the single "Ty Haf" ("Holiday Home") at a time where second homes in Wales was a controversial issue. [2]
The new style brings Ar Log into a more folk-rock style. Stephen Rees subsequently left the group and became a founder member of Crasdant. Geraint Cynan, a prolific composer and music arranger, joined on keyboards. Ar Log has taken Welsh music to over twenty countries on three continents and was the first professional Welsh traditional folk group.