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Ar Log (Welsh for "for hire") are a Welsh folk band.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 39 relations: Accordion, Bass guitar, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Clarinet, Clogging, Colin Larkin, Dafydd Iwan, Daily Post (North Wales), Festival Interceltique de Lorient, Flute, Folk dance, Folk music, Guinness World Records, Guitar, Harmony, Hugh Pugh (sailor), Irish traditional music session, J. Glyn Davies, Keyboard instrument, Llwyngwril, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Lorient, Merionethshire, Nansi Richards, North Wales, Queen (band), Sain (record label), Sea shanty, South Wales, South Wales Coalfield, Synthesizer, The Dubliners, The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Guardian, Triple harp, Tuplet, Violin, Welsh language.

  2. Welsh folk musicians
  3. Welsh-language bands

Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German, from —"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame).

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family.

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Caerphilly

Caerphilly (Caerffili) is a town and community in Wales.

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Cardiff

Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital and largest city of Wales.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.

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Clogging

Clogging, buck dancing, or flatfoot dancing is a type of folk dance practiced in the United States, in which the dancer's footwear is used percussively by striking the heel, the toe, or both against a floor or each other to create audible rhythms, usually to the downbeat with the heel keeping the rhythm.

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Colin Larkin

Colin Larkin (born 1949) is a British music writer.

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Dafydd Iwan

Dafydd Iwan Jones (born 24 August 1943) is a Welsh singer and nationalist politician who rose to fame writing and performing folk music in the Welsh language. Ar Log and Dafydd Iwan are Welsh folk musicians.

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Daily Post (North Wales)

The Daily Post is a daily newspaper for the North Wales region of Wales.

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Festival Interceltique de Lorient

The Festival interceltique de Lorient (French), Emvod Ar Gelted An Oriant (Breton) or Inter-Celtic Festival of Lorient in English, is an annual Celtic festival, located in the city of Lorient, Brittany, France.

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Flute

The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Folk dance

A folk dance is a dance that reflects the life of the people of a certain country or region.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Guitar

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.

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Harmony

In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds together in order to create new, distinct musical ideas.

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Hugh Pugh (sailor)

Hugh Pugh (1794 or 1795 – 10 August 1865), was a legendary Welsh mariner.

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Irish traditional music session

Irish traditional music sessions are mostly informal gatherings at which people play Irish traditional music.

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J. Glyn Davies

John Glyn Davies (22 October 1870 – 11 November 1953) was a Welsh scholar, poet and songwriter, most of whose creative writing is in the Welsh language.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers.

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Llwyngwril

Llwyngwril is a coastal village, in Llangelynnin community, two miles north of the village of Llangelynnin and eleven miles south-west of Dolgellau.

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Llywelyn ap Gruffudd

Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (c. 1223 – 11 December 1282), Llywelyn II, also known as Llywelyn the Last (lit), was King of Gwynedd, and later was recognised as the prince of Wales (Princeps Walliae; Tywysog Cymru) from 1258 until his death at Cilmeri in 1282.

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Lorient

Lorient is a town (commune) and seaport in the Morbihan department of Brittany in western France.

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Merionethshire

Until 1974, Merionethshire or Merioneth (Meirionnydd or Sir Feirionnydd) was an administrative county in the north-west of Wales, later classed as one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales.

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Nansi Richards

Nansi Richards Jones (14 May 1888 – 21 December 1979) was a Welsh harpist, sometimes known as the "Queen of the Harp"Folktrax 351,.

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North Wales

North Wales (Gogledd Cymru) is a region of Wales, encompassing its northernmost areas.

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Queen (band)

Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1970 by Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals), later joined by John Deacon (bass).

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Sain (record label)

Sain (Welsh for Audio), in full – Sain (Recordiau) Cyf. (Audio (Records) Ltd) is a Welsh record label, which took part in the Welsh folk revival.

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Sea shanty

A sea shanty, shanty, chantey, or chanty is a genre of traditional folk song that was once commonly sung as a work song to accompany rhythmical labor aboard large merchant sailing vessels.

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South Wales

South Wales (De Cymru) is a loosely defined region of Wales bordered by England to the east and mid Wales to the north.

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South Wales Coalfield

The South Wales Coalfield (Maes glo De Cymru) extends across Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr Tydfil, Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent and Torfaen.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.

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The Dubliners

The Dubliners were an Irish folk band founded in Dublin in 1962 as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group, named after its founding member; they subsequently renamed themselves The Dubliners.

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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is an encyclopedia created in 1989 by Colin Larkin.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Triple harp

The triple harp is a type of multi-course harp employing three parallel rows of strings instead of the more common single row.

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Tuplet

In music, a tuplet (also irrational rhythm or groupings, artificial division or groupings, abnormal divisions, irregular rhythm, gruppetto, extra-metric groupings, or, rarely, contrametric rhythm) is "any rhythm that involves dividing the beat into a different number of equal subdivisions from that usually permitted by the time-signature (e.g., triplets, duplets, etc.)" This is indicated by a number, or sometimes two indicating the fraction involved.

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Violin

The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.

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Welsh language

Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people.

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See also

Welsh folk musicians

Welsh-language bands

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar_Log