Gwenno Dafydd - St David's Day Ambassador To The World

Gwenno Dafydd is the instigator of the Saint David's Day Anthem (Lyrics: Gwenno Dafydd Music: Heulwen Thomas) which was launched by The Presiding Officer of the Welsh Assembly Government, Lord Dafydd Elis Thomas in 2008. She has been promoting and developing Saint David's Day activities worldwide since 2006 when the Saint David's Day Anthem 'Cenwch y Clychau i Dewi' (Ring out the bells for Saint David) was performed in public for the very first time in the National Saint David's Day Parade in Cardiff. She has instigated the tradition of 'County Banners' throughout Wales to celebrate Saint David's Day. This year, the first County Banner, The Pembrokeshire Banner, which is kept on permanent display in the East Cloister in Saint David's Cathedral, will be joined by two new County Banners, those of Montgomeryshire and Carmartheshire.

The Saint David's Day Anthem, which will this year be sold from the very prestigious Ty Cerdd website, patron Karl Jenkins, alongside the music of Welsh composers such as Grace Williams, William Mathias, Morfydd Llwyn Owen and Gareth Glyn. The Saint David's Day Anthem has been performed not only in Wales but also numerous times in Canada, Los Angeles, Patagonia, Disneyland Paris and the Houses of Parliament. Every year the Pembrokeshire Banner is paraded around Saint David's Cathedral whilst local school children sing the Saint David's Day Anthem.

She has created an Iphone App to learn the Welsh National Anthem and is the author of 'Stand Up & Sock it to them Sister. Funny Feisty Females' which had been described by Funny Women, the UK's leading female comedy community as 'the ultimate canon of female stand-up comics'. She is a Leadership and Public Speaking Coach and works extensively via Skype and even has some clients in Los Angeles.

John Good - Our Man In The Desert.....

John Good, known to many as  Sioni Dda ,was born and tumbled up in South Wales in the shadow of blast furnace number 4, Port Talbot, went to university in Yorkshire then back to Glamorgan...Master's degree in Music composition, Brains' beer and darts...lived/worked[?] in London,  Brighton, San Francisco, L.A. and Phoenix, where he now resides, plays folk harp, Welsh bagpipes and pibgorn, flutes, whistles, sings, teaches on-line, Welsh Language classes, writes articles, short stories and poems for AmeriCymru and Ninnau and, on a Saturday night, does a jig or two if influenced to do so. Anymore questions?

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Euryn Dyfed - Our Man In Llanelli.....

Languages are my hobby. I started to learn Welsh when I accidentally found thev Teach Yourself book whilst looking for French in the library. I lived in Newcastle on Tyne and had no one to help, no audio, no video, nothing back in those days.

I went through the book from cover to cover, time, after time, after time. Then i discovered Siop y Pethe's mail order service and started buying records and books and meticulously going through them with a dictionary by my side. Eventually I got to discard the dictionary but I still had never spoken a word to anyone! Then I discovered Pobl y Cwm and Dis a Dawn were shown on our local BBC. I understood nothing, zilch! This did however awaken my interest in dialects and made me see that I had to move to Wales to learn spoken Welsh.

I moved to Llanelli in 1975 and have been here ever since. I did a degree in Welsh through the medium of Welsh at Aberystwyth, concentrating on language history modules such as yr Hen gerdd, The History of Welsh from its Brythonic roots up the the late middle ages, and a translation module plus adding Modern Irish and Modern Breton.

After that I worked in the Welsh book shop in Llanelli until it closed in 2000 when I then opened my own shop until retiring in 2012. I still keep reading the latest editions of Medieval Welsh Literature to keep abreast of the latest research. I also worked for eight years as a Welsh tutor for adults with Swansea University Dept of Continuing Adult Education . ...