Gwilym Bowen Rhys in Aberdaron

Folk on Foot

Matthew Bannister

Music Interviews, Performing Arts, Music, Nature, Arts, Science

4.8 • 526 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Come for a wild, wet and windy walk on the beach at Aberdaron on the Llyn peninsula in Wales with the singer and songwriter Gwilym Bowen Rhys. Then join us in the local church where Gwilym demonstrates his musical versatility, accompanying himself on the guitar, fiddle, harmonica and organ and throwing in a whistling solo for good measure. He sings a song about a local shipwreck and shows us the grave of the victims in the churchyard. We learn about local history, Welsh language and culture and Gwilym’s own inspiration in another fascinating episode.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Oh, I'm a lot of
0:21.6	Wynn I'm not you he'sit of the whia, get there's a clack of a wife,
0:40.3	Oborth me, do you,
0:43.3	and thenchy,
0:44.3	he's d'ahiri, and I'd wia We've We've
0:55.0	We've travelled to the far north, we've travelled to the far south, and now we're in the west of
1:12.5	Britain. We're on the peninsula that sticks out from the north of Wales. And I'm looking out
1:20.7	at the foaming sea ahead of me, and we're here to meet a man who is passionate about Welsh language and Welsh tradition
1:30.1	and Welsh music. You might have seen him performing in some of our front room festivals.
1:35.4	Gwillam Bowen-Rees, the young Welsh singer and songwriter who knows all about the tradition
1:41.9	of his country and its language and its customs.
1:45.7	And we're going to go for a blustery stroll on the beach with Gwilham if we don't get blown away. I'm I'm I'm
2:01.6	The
2:03.6	I'm. I'm the
2:18.3	I'm gonna'n't Oh my Oh
2:35.0	I'm
2:36.0	on Good, I'm good morning.
3:01.3	What it are. Nice to see you as well.
3:04.2	What a wild, wet, windy day it is today. I mean, the wind is blowing in,
3:09.8	the sea is foaming out there. Is it always like this? It is not. It is not. You've been very
3:16.2	unfortunate. Very often, this is a wonderful place weather-wise. But yeah, not today, but it's very, it's very
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