This year, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC is proud to host four Welsh performers as part of the One World, Many Voices: Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage program. They will perform and celebrate the Welsh language though song, music, and poetry. The performers will include: Gwyneth Glyn (week two), a prolific singer-songwriter, poet, writer, and Welsh Childrens Poet Laureate 2006-2007, Ifor ap Glyn (week one), a poet, scriptwriter, broadcaster, and Welsh Childrens Poet Laureate 2008-2009, Twm Morys (all ten days), a singer-songwriter, poet, television/radio writer, and Welsh Childrens Poet Laureate 2009-2010, and Owen Saer (all ten days), a Welsh language teacher and choir director.

The Welsh participants will join other culture groups with endangered languages from around the globe at the Festival. This free event takes place from June 26 June 30 and July 3 7, 2013, from 11 a.m. 5:30 p.m. with evening concerts most evenings, and includes two other programs: Hungary: Roots to Revival and Will to Adorn: African American Diversity, Style and Identity . More information, including specific locations and times for the performances, can be found in the official Festival schedule, available on our website www.festival.si.edu .