Peredur Webb-Davies works for Bangor University and has received research grant funding in the past from the ESRC and Research Council UK. The Welsh language, Cymraeg, has changed linguistically a lot ...

The national anthems of the United States and Wales will have been played, the referee will have blown for kick-off and the Group B fixture at Doha’s Al Rayyan Stadium will be underway. But the music ...

The 1983 tune by Dafydd Iwan, a Welsh folk singer, seems to follow the team everywhere. By Andrew Keh The chorus of the song comes crashing down in an irresistible wave. You may not have any clue what ...

During an exhibition event in Swansea, darter Joe Cullen showed a completely different side. He surprised the crowd by singing the iconic Welsh song Yma o Hyd. Dafydd Iwan's hit is a symbol of Welsh ...

The song begins with a strummed acoustic guitar, the tinkling of a harp and a metronomic, minor-key melody line that starts low and slowly ascends, like a primordial vapor rising from deep in the ...

Wales is a nation released. Regardless of what happens against Iran on Friday morning and England next Tuesday evening, Rob Page’s team have imbued their country with a renewed sense of investment in ...

The iTunes UK song chart is currently topped by a rather unlikely track: a song by a Welsh folk band which was recorded in 1981 and released in 1983… The song is Yma O Hyd by the decidedly non-famous ...

Liam J Edwards wears a pearl necklace and a lemon yellow shirt when we meet. Liam recently went viral on social media for their version of Dafydd Iwan’s 1983 folk anthem, Yma o Hyd. The video itself ...

A singer from Swansea has gone viral on social media for their performance on S4C's 'Y Llais', the Welsh language version of 'The Voice'. Liam J. Edward's own take on Dafydd Iwan's classic Welsh song ...

Wales' "fragile" folk music tradition could "die within a generation" without urgent action, a new report has said. Research commissioned by Arts Council Wales found fewer young people were learning ...