The Machynlleth Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in the auditorium of The Tabernacle , Machynlleth , Wales in late August. During the week eminent performers take part in events ranging from recitals for children to jazz.
4-756: The festival begins with a sing-along of sacred hymns, the Cymanfa Ganu. Special features include the Hallstatt Lecture on some aspect of Celtic culture. The Glyndŵr Award for an Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales is given during the festival. Performers in the first three Machynlleth Festivals included tenor Paul Agnew (1987), oboist Nicholas Daniel (1988), soprano Elizabeth Vaughan (1988), actor Leonard Fenton (1988 and 1989), saxophonist Don Rendell (1989) and bass-baritone Bryn Terfel (1989). Among
8-752: Is given at The Tabernacle, Machynlleth in Wales at lunchtime on the Wednesday of each Machynlleth Festival . Past lecturers 1991 Professor J. E. Caerwyn Williams 1992 Morfydd Owen 1993 Emeritus Professor Dafydd Jenkins 1994 Frank Delaney 1995 Unknown 1996 John Meirion Morris 1997 Gwynn ap Gwilym 1998 Graham and Ann Arnold 1999 Trevor Fishlock 2000 Murray Chapman 2001 Dr Marion Loffler 2002 Simon Jenkins 2003 Professor Alistair Crawford 2004 Dr Damian Walford Davies 2005 Derec Llwyd Morgan Further reading [ edit ] Gwynn ap Gwilym: Our Cousins' Verse: connections between some Welsh and Irish poets in
12-656: The Festival performers in the next few years were: Alan Skidmore , tenor saxophonist, 1990; Bernard Roberts , pianist, and Kit and The Widow, 1991; and Robin Williamson of the Incredible String Band , 1992. The 1994 Festival, the last to contain four events per day for eight days, featured musicologist John Amis , violinist Tasmin Little , soprano Joan Rodgers , clarinettist Emma Johnson and pianist Joshua Rifkin . In 1995
16-505: The Festival was reduced for reasons of economy to two events each day, more or less the pattern of the first Festival. Performers included broadcaster Richard Baker and mezzo-soprano Sarah Walker . Jazz singer George Melly and trombonist Christian Lindberg were amongst the highlights of 1996. Hallstatt Lecture The Hallstatt Lecture is an hour-long lecture in any European language on some aspect of ancient and modern Celtic culture. It
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