Dafydd Y Garreg Wen

Sarah is joined here by Chris Grooms, PH.D. on Welsh guitar.
“David of the White Rock” (Dafydd Y Garreg Wen) – is a traditional Welsh air composed by the harper David Owen around 1749. The words were added about a hundred years later by the poet, John Ceiriog Hughes. In the song, David says that he has heard an angel’s voice and so he calls for his harp to play one last song before going home to Heaven. He asks for God’s blessing for his wife and children.
Sarah learned to sing this song in Welsh with the help of Dr Grooms.
More about Dr Grooms: "Chris Grooms, a native Texan, first appeared on the British folk scene in 1978 as a recording artist with Transatlantic Records, the premiere British folk guitar label. His compositions were anthologized on ‘best of British folk guitar’ anthologies in the ‘late ‘70s and early ‘80s. He moved to Wales in 1985 to University College of Wales, Aberystwyth to become fluent in Welsh and complete a Ph.D in Welsh Language and Literature with a study of the folklore of Welsh giants, since published as a dictionary with Edwin Mellen Press, Lampeter.
He appeared on many Welsh television slots (S4C) in the late‘80s as a folk guitarist, and has been active in the Welsh folk scene ever since, both as a perform and academic, with appearances at the Sesiwn Fawr in Dolgellau and other concert venues around Wales and England. In 2009, he was a contributing artist the Smithsonian Folkways anthology of traditional Welsh music, ‘Blodeugerdd, Song of the Flowers,’ which won the Independent Music Award in 2009 for Best World Folk Music album. He has been transcribing manuscript Welsh folk melodies from the collection of Iolo Morganwg, Ifor Ceri, Nicholas Bennett, and others for classical and folk guitar for the last twenty years."
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