Saturday, September 4

3-5 p.m. - $5 per person.

North American Festival of Wales

Featuring the 79th Annual Welsh National

Gymanfa Ganu

2 September - 5 September, 2010

Portland, Oregon

All events are at Doubletree Lloyd Center Hotel.

See http://www.Wngga.org for details

. *This will be one of a number of workshops, and other Welsh-related events.

The Welsh are Coming to Portland

By Chris Jones (slightly edited)

The caller will be Sian Frick. Sian attended Cymdeithas

Ddawns Werin Cymru (Welsh Folk Dance Society)

workshops in Wales to learn the spirited, but light-footed,

Welsh dances, and earned a Cymdeithas Instructors Certificate.

Sian was the leader of Dawnswyr y Tract Cymreig

(Welsh Tract Dancers) , based in Newark, Delaware.

She has also been a member of the Dawnswyr Man

Dance Team in Anglesey, Wa l es . Sian is frequently invited

to teach Welsh folk dance wo r kshops and give clogging

demonstrations at many of the Celtic festivals in the U.S.

In the workshop , she will teach a number of the Welsh

dances, and all attending will have a chance to try out

their footwork. Please wear your dance shoes! All ages

welcome .

The dance workshop will be held in the Broadway/Weidler Room at the Doubletree Lloyd Center Hotel, which will host the Festival. The band will be Portland ' s own Beltaine.

There will be a special price of $5 for the workshop.

A $15 day ticket is also available for the afternoon events.

Tickets will also be available for the evening concert by

Gar Godre'r Aran, an accomplished Welsh male voice

choir , based in Llanuwchllyn in Penllyn, near Bala in North

Wales.

All these will be part of the North American Festival

of Wales held this year over Labor Day weekend in Portland

More information on all the Welsh Festival events can

be found at http://www.wngga.org . The Festival is held

yearly in the U.S . and Canada. This is Portland ' s year,

I and we are expecting a wonderful event. Please come for

I the dancing and other even ts .

Croeso cynnes Cymreig iawn i chi gyd - there will be a very warm, Welsh welcome for all.