POULTNEY — So what exactly is a gymanfa ganu? "It's a traditional Welsh hymn sing," said St. David's Society president Janice Edwards of the group's annual event, held Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Welsh ...

Conductor Alun Guy of Cardiff, Wales, will lead a gymanfa ganu Welsh hymn sing on Sunday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Wilkes-Barre. Guy conducted two national events here in 1983 and 1993 that ...

ROSENDALE - The annual Peniel Welsh Gymanfa Ganu, a Welsh hymn sing festival, will start at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 28, at the 160-year-old Peniel Chapel, Fond du Lac County FF, west of State 26 ...

The Mankato Symphony has changed the time and venue for its free concert of American Indian and orchestral music coinciding with the Mankato Powwow. The free concert will now be held 7 p.m. on Sunday ...

hundreds of voices to the sanctuary annually. Martha Borosky of Plains Township is chairwoman of the event, and she and her committee are expecting to accommodate a crowd. Four generations of ...

CAMBRIA - The Columbia County community that owes its origins and name to immigrants from Wales will celebrate its Welsh heritage Sunday by carrying out a tradition that's at least six decades old.

The two men behind the rousing hymn Calon Lan are to be honoured with blue plaques in their home city of Swansea. The song, published in 1892, was written by John Hughes, who wrote the music, and ...

For two years, a group of volunteers led by North Harford High School art teacher Glenn Grove has been planning a party in Harrisburg, Pa., for nearly 2,000 people in the name of preserving their ...

This weekend Twickenham and pubs and rugby clubs all over Wales will once again be ringing with renditions of Calon Lan and Cwm Rhondda as Wales take on South Africa in the Rugby World Cup. The Welsh ...

The Welsh are known for singing hymns, but these days it is often fuelled more by alcohol than the typically Welsh fire and brimstone sermons of the strictly sober chapels that first introduced them.