The national anthems of the United States and Wales will have been played, the referee will have blown for kick-off and the Group B fixture at Doha’s Al Rayyan Stadium will be underway. But the music ...

The song begins with a strummed acoustic guitar, the tinkling of a harp and a metronomic, minor-key melody line that starts low and slowly ascends, like a primordial vapor rising from deep in the ...

Wales is a nation released. Regardless of what happens against Iran on Friday morning and England next Tuesday evening, Rob Page’s team have imbued their country with a renewed sense of investment in ...

Wales legend Dafydd Iwan has given Welsh fans a moment they'll never forget by turning up at a hotel in Doha and leading a rousing rendition of Yma o Hyd. The singer is in Qatar supporting Wales after ...

Peredur Webb-Davies works for Bangor University and has received research grant funding in the past from the ESRC and Research Council UK. The Welsh language, Cymraeg, has changed linguistically a lot ...

Not until the familiar refrains of Yma o Hyd fill the north Wales air does it truly feel real. This paean to the survival of the Welsh language against all the odds — the title translates as ‘Still ...

Folk singer Dafydd Iwan, whose song Yma o Hyd has become a football anthem, says young people need support to turn folk music into a viable career Wales' "fragile" folk music tradition could "die ...

Liam J Edwards wears a pearl necklace and a lemon yellow shirt when we meet. Liam recently went viral on social media for their version of Dafydd Iwan’s 1983 folk anthem, Yma o Hyd. The video itself ...