Here is a picture of a Welsh Dance troupe that accompanied us on the ‘twinning’ to Brittany. They looked pretty good but the jigging didn’t strike me as ‘Welsh’ – not that I would know anything about it. It seemed to me rather like something contrived –‘this is how we would imagine Welsh dancing to be if there were such a thing’.The Breton dancing though really did feel as if it had been around for centuries evolving like one of Darwins finches in the isolation of an enclave.
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LOL! Nail on head etc...that is the main problem with British traditional culture stuff...it looks so contrived.
I've been to folk festivals in Greece Portugal Sardinia Germany etc where the people - yound and old - simply come along, sing all their old songs and dance all their old dances and have a bleeding good time. We can't do anything like that in the UK
Yes I see what you mean.
It could have been worse. It could have been an entire eisteddfod.
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