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Barddair an Cheoil 2021

WORLD CURLEW DAY

8PM BST 21/04/2021

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Barddair an Cheoil is a small group of poets and musicians dedicated to collaborating, writing and performing in their native languages – Irish and Welsh. All are from western Wales and the West of Ireland and all live close to the sea. They have chosen as their themes the ocean and estuaries, the changes brought about there by climate change, and the creatures threatened by these changes.

They have already begun to develop new material and to record, and hope to tour in Wales and Ireland towards the end of this year, performing indoors and in the open air, and working in schools. In the meantime, they are releasing a first digital performance, free to air, to promote and celebrate World Curlew Day on 21st April this year, in association with Echoes and RSPB. This will raise awareness of environmental issues and contributions will be invited to the appropriate charities.

Barddair an Cheoil World Curlew Day Poster Here

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A year of exciting musical events in Colombia and Wales

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2019 has been designated the UNESCO Year of Indigenous Languages. Welsh is one of the oldest indigenous languages of Europe, and we want to celebrate her in every way we can. Colombia, too, is rich in indigenous languages, and the legacy of indigenous culture is felt throughout the country in a million ways. The way of life of the mountain campesinos on their small mixed farms is strikingly similar, too, the culture of the Gwerin in rural Wales. So – Cerrig Camu are going to Wales this October to perform, to learn, to make connections, and above all to make friends.

The aim of our initiative is to open channels of communication, develop understandings and collaboration, and create new opportunities for traditional musicians and audiences in rural Colombia and rural Wales. We’ll achieve this through an active cultural collaboration between traditional musicians in the two cultures. The numbers involved in this first stage will be small, keeping our footfall – economic as well as cultural – as light as possible, and creating a series of events that small rural communities can welcome with minimum disruption. We’ll be playing in a big-city folk festival, and also in mountain villages and even on farms across rural Santander.

The project is not designed to be a ‘one-off’ series of events creating an impact and soon forgotten. It will act as the best kind of benign cultural collision, and will engender new exciting encounters in the future.

Read more in our full report here...

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The initiative is growing through the following stages:

  • May – October 2019. An exchange of material and ideas between the musicians concerned, which will enable them to explore convergences and contrasts, shared themes and different approaches, between their two traditions. They will also be able to discuss and experiment on the opportunities to share and combine a performance.
  • October – November 2019. A short tour by three Welsh musicians; Osian Morris, Iestyn Tyne, and Gwilym Bowen Rhys, and their Colombian introducer/ translator, of two regions in rural Colombia, supported by the Colombian traditional musicians participating in the project. This will give an opportunity for the musicians to play together, to further develop their understandings of each other’s culture, to develop working friendships and to explore the responses of the audiences they address. The performances will take place in Campesino villages, indigenous communities, universities and concert halls.
  • November 2019 – July 2020. Informed and inspired by the experiences on tour, the two sets of musicians will work at distance again, developing and choreographing a shared performance which will showcase the two traditions to a Welsh audience, and form the basis of a CD recording.
  • July- August 2020. A second shared tour, this time of rural communities in Wales, will be combined with recording sessions and media opportunities.

Any initiative of this kind is as strong as its partners, whose participation, support and advice will be invaluable throughout. We cannot thank Wales Arts International enough for their support and advice – they have made this venture possible.
Others include:

  • The Arts Council of Wales
  • Fiesta Tiple en la Noche, Bucaramanga
  • The Autonomous Indigenous University of Colombia
  • Simacota Annual Festival of Culture and Sport
  • Trac
  • Theatr Felinfach

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Colombia Tour Schedule - October 2019
Date Activity Whereabouts Comments Also involved
15th-16th Travel to Colombia Birmingham - Bogota Night bus to San Gil  
17th Recuperation day Pinchote La Vega, Pinchote – between Bogota and Bucaramanga  
18th-19th Festival in Bucaramanga Bucaramanga Two days of gigging and jamming Al Pie de la Cuesta & 10 other bands
20th Barbecue and informal concert Pinchote Evening gig Al Pie de la Cuesta
21st Recuperation day Pinchote Between Bogota and Bucaramanga  
22nd–23rd Independence Day Festival Simacota (near Pinchote) Two days of gigging and jamming Al Pie de la Cuesta & other performers
24th–25th Travel back to Wales Bus to Bogota, then Bogota – Birmingham    

Wales Tour Schedule - July 26th – August 9th 2020 "To Be Rescheduled"

Venues and activities to be arranged, but the tour will certainly include participation in the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Tregaron, Ceredigion.

Above all, we are determined that the initiative will not be the sort of ‘one-off’ event that flares briefly like a shooting star, creating expectations doomed to disappointment, but the beginning of a robust, sustainable and mutually respectful interaction.

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The tour before the tour

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Before beginning their tour through the mountains of northern Colombia, Cerrig Camu are going on a mini-tour in our own country – partly to practice, partly to perfect the show, partly for fun - and also to raise money to help finance the trip. Here are the details of the events:

Date & time Venue
Thursday 4th July, 7.30pm Caffi Alys, Machynlleth
Sunday 10th August, 11.50am El Sueno Existe, Machynlleth
Friday 30th August, 7.30pm Yr Ysgwrn, Trawsfynydd
Thursday 12th September, 7.30pm Amgueddfa Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth
Friday 13th September, 7.30pm Tŷ Siamas, Dolgellau

We’d like to thank the Arts Council of Wales and Wales Arts International for their support throughout.

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