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Cass Meurig, Traditional Welsh Folk Music
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Cass Meurig is one of Wales's foremost crwth and traditional fiddle players and a member of Welsh folk band Pigyn Clust. AS well as working as a soloist she plays in duos with guitarist Nial Cain, piper/flautist Ceri Rhys Matthews and Swedish/Estonian bowed harp player Sofia Joons. She played with Fernhill between 2000 and 2004 and also with Gorwel and Fiona Owen’s band Pondman. She featured on Fernhill's third and fourth albums 'whilia' and 'hynt' and on Pigyn Clust's second album 'Perllan' and together with storyteller Esyllt Harker created 'Ganthrig Bwt', a show featuring stories, songs and crwth music from Wales and beyond. Her main interest is in Welsh traditional music. In January 2004 Cass released her first solo album, entitled ‘crwth’ on the acclaimed Welsh traditional music label Fflach: tradd (2004). Click here for more details Crwth
Cass holds a PhD from the University of Wales, Bangor on the music of the fiddler in eighteenth century Wales. She is an experienced speaker on the subject and gave papers at the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention in Aberdeen (July 2001) and the Centre for Advanced Welsh Music Studies conference in Bangor in 1999 and 2001.
'Alawon John Thomas', Cass's edition of the John Thomas manuscript of fiddle tunes, is now available from the National Library of Wales website www.llgc.org.uk It includes around 450 tunes collected in North-East Wales around the year 1752 and a substantial text taken from Cass's PhD which gives information on the historical and musical context of the manuscript and the history of the tunes.
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