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BRAGOD [April 2006]
Bragod is the only ensemble performing historically-informed, medieval Welsh bardic music and poetry. Robert Evans and Mary-Anne Roberts will guide you through their 7-year experiment, which encompasses pitting the harmonics of the voice against a musical instrument and an intensely physical, communal exploration of the Trinidad carnival form, leading to a challenging, visceral sound-world. Bragod ydi’r unig ensemble sy’n perfformio cerddoriaeth a barddoniaeth barddol Cymraeg o’r Oesoedd Canol sy’n hanesyddol oleuedig. Bydd Robert Evans a Mary-Anne Roberts yn eich tywys chi trwy eu harbrawf 7 mlynedd, sy’n cwmpasu gosod harmoneg y llais yn erbyn offeryn cerdd ac archwiliad aruthrol o gorfforol, ar y cyd o ffurf carnifal Trinidad, gan arwain at seinfyd hergar, o eigion calon.

Robert Evans was born in north Cardiganshire. His research on the Robert ap Huw manuscript and Welsh Medieval musical instrumentsbegan thirty years ago and is the foundation of Bragod’s work. He has contributed articles to organological and musicological journals and the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians on the crwth and medieval Irish, Welsh and European harps.

Mary-Anne Roberts trained in performance arts in her native Trinidad and Tobago where she enjoyed a successful career in theatre and television before migrating to the UK. After a period of familiarisation to the sound of the crwth, she began concentrating on historical Welsh music and has performed with the instrument since 1999.

More information on BRAGOD can be found at
www.bragod.com,

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