Cymerau presents; The lost fairytales and folk music of Ceredigion
with Elsa Davies, fiddle and voice;
Ceri Owen-Jones, harp and voice;
Peter Stevenson, storiwr and illustrator.
At the Friendship in Borth.
Join us for an evening of storytelling and songs of the sea and waters around Borth. The old fairy tales and tunes of North Ceredigion tell of the lives of the people who lived here before us, fishermen and philosophers, poets and mill workers, the wise and the inquisitive, heroes and tricksters, toads and mermaids.They are set in our landscape, bounded by the sea, ponds, lakes, wells, streams and rivers, and the waters hidden beneath the thin layer of peat on the floating the bogs, From the landscape and its people spring stories; tales of enchantment in 'The Salty Welsh Sea' stories of floods with 'Rhysyn and the Mermaid' of the land beneath the sea in 'the Lady of the Millpond' the land above the sea, hidden from our eyes, in 'Plant Rhys Ddwfn' and the wisest animal in Wales, 'the Old Toad of Borth Bog'.
Peter Stevenson is a storyteller, book illustrator, writer, purveyor of Magical Lantern shows, organiser of Aberystwyth Storytelling Festival and Stories by Gaslight club, and wanders the old Ceredigion Tramping Road with head in the clouds and mud on his boots.
Elsa Davies, fiddle, and Ceri-Owen Jones, harp, play traditional tunes, learnt from friends or brought to life from sleeping manuscripts, and dream mash-up folk music on the West Welsh coast: a music shaped in warm kitchens and tramping dark, gorse-patched cliffs.
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