EIGHT days of cultural celebrations marking the Welsh influence on Liverpool start next weekend.
Singer and broadcaster Aled Jones will join the Welsh Choral Union and RLPO to mark St David’s Day at the Philharmonic Hall on March 1 and begin the festivities.
The events include a bilingual service at St Nicholas’s church on Sunday, March 2, a folk culture lecture at the Friends Meeting House in School Lane, on Monday, March 3, and a talk on the history of Welsh people in Liverpool at the Athenaeum on Friday, March 7. The week will end with a St David’s Day dinner at the Adelphi on Saturday March 8.
Meanwhile on Wednesday March 5, an evening of “rhymes and rhythm” takes place at the Bethel Welsh Presbyterian church in Heathfield Road, Wavertree.
The evening features the national poet of Wales, Professor Gwyn Thomas, Liverpudlian Anglo-Welsh poet Dr Deryn Rees-Jones, and Welsh triple harpist, Liverpudlian Robin Huw Bowen.
Arthur Thomas, from the Bethel church, said: “Professor Thomas is one of the most prolific poets in Wales today. He writes in Welsh but his themes are global and will be translated for those who do not speak the language.
“Dr Deryn Rees-Jones is a senior lecturer in English at Liverpool university and has recently been voted one of the 20 best poets of the next generation by the Poetry Book Society.”
The evening starts at 7.30pm and entry is £5.
The Welsh have had a presence in Liverpool for hundreds of years.
Details of all the events and ticket prices are available by visiting the website
www.liverpool-welsh.co.uk/cc2008.htm
Source Liverpool Echo
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liver...0252-20513743/
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