I ran across your youtube and I am hoping you can help me find the words and chords to an old Welsh drinking song my grandfather use to sing. I will try to write out the phrase I remember as best I can (I could sing it better). It goes ... a thunkanel a thunkanel a corro mellen bar .... My mother said it talks about being at his favorite bar (or pub)? Can you help me. I sing and play guitar and I would love to learn it.
And poor colour morganwg was a very intelligent man, and the marks you saw on those sticks is called COELBREN, it's a very aincient alphabet, iolo has been made to look a fool, this history cover up runs deep, if most of us welsh britons knew our ancestry and history we would be quite surprised, most of the history of the kings of britain has been altered to fit the saxons in to our history, british history is amazing, and so is this video, great music.
I'm happy no one really knows the power of traditional welsh music.. Irish folk has become americanized rubbish overly romantic and laden with leprechauns, scottish folk is bagpipes and kilts, an image that will forever haunt it and reduce it to ridicule. Welsh folk stands proud and known to those who care about it and so it should remain, we do not need an international audience for it neither does it need to be popular outside its own country. Keep welsh folk welsh is what I say or it will become a ghost of itself.
Rhodri - this is a fantastic summary, thank you! I'm a fiddle player with Welsh roots looking to widen my repertoire of Welsh tunes. You've inspired me and given me lots of ideas to pursue. Brilliant!
Oh my goodness I am so glad the mysterious algorithm decided to put this in my recommendations. I absolutely love learning more about the folk traditions of these isles, especially the music. Diolch! ❤️🎶
A little British cross-pollination into surrounding countries is alright. For example the "Child Ballads" from earlier times, we're introduced into Ireland ( especially Ulster); where new versions of Ballads like "Barbara Allen, Matty Groves, the Raggle-Taggle Gypsio ( aka Gypsy Davy) were given an Irish setting (ie.) with bagpipes or harp. The same influence occurs in Scotland. British songs & poems came into Scotland where beautiful Celtics melodies were applied. For example the hymn " Morning is Broken" a gorgeous harp melody from the Isle of Skype was used for this hymn/poem/prayer as we're countless other British songs/ballads/poems. However in Wales I think a lot of the amazing Celtics music and culture was lost and deliberately ignored by the early anglo-norman invaders and also later by the influence of immersing Methodist encroachment !
Many thanks for this excellent overview, Rhodri. Although I've lived for all but the first 5 years of my life in Canada, I was born in Colwyn Bay to a Welsh-speaking mother (the Salisbury family). Sadly, I learned none of the history or traditions until a few weeks ago when I read "A Concise History of Wales." This has taught me just how much I've missed about the vital celebration of being Welsh.
This is a tremendously important video! It's high time that Welsh culture was more widely known about, and Welsh traaditional music most of all. And cattle-herding songs!
Everyone in my family seems tied to music, my Father's cousins channel is called Llanbradach and he plays some traditional Welsh folk on guitar. He's a session player. Thanks for this video ❤️
The thing is Irish music as we know it today is largely an American/Canadian invention and has very little to do with actual Irish music. Make no mistakes: Colm, The Longest Johns, Irish Rovers, etc and their style of music is a wholly modern phenomenon that appeared only in the 1960's
Makes me feel very inadequate, I started trying to learn violin august 2022 and I am not anywhere near good/confident enough to play even close to somewhere public!
My God, I couldn't find this earlier because the thumbnail is different now, but I used to listen to this everyday during 2013-2024, seriously... so great to hear it again!
I adore your resistance against cultural extinction. Greetings from Germany. I am the last of Mohicans, concerning my local dialect, a very special one. It is really important to keep some piece of "home" in your heart in these crazy days. GO ON. I know that there is a difference between "just a dialect" and a totally different culture, but my Ancestors' language, which was really a language/culture and not just a German dialect, died out with my Grandparents. I am living in southern Germany, born in northern Germany, I am still feeling like Sting "I'm an Alien" after more than 30 years. Ok, I am enjoying it here, but home is home. Do a better job than me
Singing to the cattle so that they follow (rather than beating them from behind) is good leadership! (My Border Collie makes friends with the sheep with mutual respect and they follow him - same thing). Great video, thanks!
Such an interesting video. I am Australian and a musician, but my parents just happened to be living in Wales when I was born, so I feel a strong affinity. Hopefully one day I can come there and learn the traditional folk music.c
Oh so glad I found this channel ! Watching in Ireland. I love Wales so much , the language is beautiful and now finding out about the instruments , wonderful thank you !
Thank you so much for this video. I am a half Welsh and although I never lived in Wales hearing the language and the music makes me feel some kind of hiraeth...
