Christmastime in Wales brings many traditions that we enjoy and music tops our list, as it does throughout the year. Two musical traditions that we dip in and out of each Christmas include the Welsh hymn tradition and plygain, traditionally a service where songs in three-part harmony are sung in the wee hours of Christmas morning. Here’s a good example of plygain below:
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Today one of our team members is travelling to join us long-term here in Wales. We’re excited to welcome her, it’s a plan years in the making that’s now coming to fruition. Our feelings include excitement, thankfulness and expectancy. But it’s a hard road during the best of circumstances, and the pandemic still grips most of Europe
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Thanks to my father, I have, since childhood, held strong convictions for correcting injustice. Growing up on a tobacco farm in rural Virginia in the 1960s and 70s, my father was also raised with the understanding that all people, regardless of race or socioeconomic class, should be treated with respect. Much of this was counter to that of his fellow white peers, especially at the time of integration.
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