Pendragon Dreaming - Our Music
Practically all of our
music is taken from traditional songs and tunes by Welsh artists. Many are very old;
some going back perhaps hundreds of years. The music and songs are a history of the Welsh
people's amazing and unrelenting struggle to retain our culture and language. To retain it
as an occupied people and in the face of one of the most successful, modern, colonial
powers and that most prolific of languages; English.
The songs include
lullabies, folk tales, myths, they include battle songs and marches, hymns, songs of
defiance and inspiration and more often than not songs of the countryside and of love,
particularly of that longing that is a trait of the Celts, which in our language; Cymraeg
we call `hiraeth'.
The songs are a
chronicle of the evolution of the Ancient Briton's transformation to the modern
Welsh people, or `Cymry'. We sing them in Cymraeg, the poetic and soulful language they
were written in.
We hope they will warm
your soul and spirit like they have ours.
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