Gwyneth Glyn, a Welsh singer who performs original and folk songs in her native tongue, will perform at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival this year as part of the “One World, Many Voices” program.

To find out more about the Smithsonian Folkways album "Blodeugerdd" visit http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=3229 Linda Griffiths (Aberystwyth, Wales ...

Those are the opening notes of an album released this week that has a dark and atmospheric sound and a human voice that seems otherworldly. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LLIWIAU") SIMON: That's Lisa Jen, ...

The thousands of people attending the Edinburgh Fringe Festival may well be expecting to see shows in German, French or Spanish. But for one performance duo, it is the Welsh language that takes centre ...

If Welsh folk music is less widely known abroad than its Irish or Scottish counterparts, that is largely down to historical forces: the lack of a significant Welsh diaspora, and the hermetic survival ...

Two sisters have emerged victorious in Brwydr y Bandiau Gwerin (Battle of the Folk Bands) at the National Eisteddfod, which is being held this year in Wrexham. Elin and Carys from Montgomeryshire were ...

Welsh folk music legend Dafydd Iwan has told organisers of an anti asylum seekers protest to stop using his song. The protest singer is a cult hero in Wales with his most famous anthem 'Yma o Hyd' ...