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CAWMS goes to Cardiff!

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The Centre for Advanced Welsh Music Studies is hosting a four-day event in partnership with St Fagans National History Museum designed to explore the theme of ‘Music in Wales: the Old and the New’. Our visit begins on Wednesday 11 November with an afternoon of activities arranged specially for students and staff of Trinity University College, Carmarthen and the University of Glamorgan, and continues with an all-day-event for local sixth-formers studying Music on Thursday. All staff and a number of postgraduates in the School of Music who work on music in Wales are contributing. The venue is the attractive workers’ institute building at St Fagans known as Oakdale.

Thursday evening sees the opening session of public conference on the same theme – which everyone is most welcome to attend. This begins at 6pm with a reception and papers on Contemporary Welsh Popular Music (by kind permission of the School of Music, Cardiff University). A series of varied events then follow on Friday and Saturday back at St Fagans. Highlights of the conference include a keynote lecture by Professor Gareth Williams (University of Glamorgan) entitled Last Judgment in Treherbert – Revisiting the ‘Land of Song’ c.1870–1920 on Friday afternoon, and a concert on Friday evening, to include Guto Puw’s new 2009 Eisteddfod commission, Hadau.

The full timetable and further details are available at http://www.bangor.ac.uk/music/conference/. Please contact cawms@bangor.ac.uk if you would like to join us. 

All of these events take place with generous support from Mantais and are enabling the School of Music to foster its vital partnership with similar institutions in Mid and South Wales.