{"id":10517,"date":"2012-10-21T21:56:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T21:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=10517"},"modified":"2012-10-21T21:56:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T21:56:35","slug":"revival-of-celtic-culture-at-rwcmd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2012\/10\/21\/revival-of-celtic-culture-at-rwcmd\/","title":{"rendered":"Revival of Celtic culture at RWCMD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10520\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Culture_3_band_big_SY.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10520\" title=\"Culture_3_band_big_SY\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Culture_3_band_big_SY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Culture_3_band_big_SY.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Culture_3_band_big_SY-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10520\" title=\"Culture_3_band_big_SY\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Culture_3_band_big_SY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Culture_3_band_big_SY.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/Culture_3_band_big_SY-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hugh on the accordion, accompanied by Jack on guitar.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A monthly music night, established last month at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, hopes to promote interest in Cardiff\u2019s Celtic heritage.<\/p>\n<p>David Grubb, who runs the RWCMD Folk Society, set up the nights to redress the lack of awareness of traditional music in the capital city. The nights are called Folk In The Foyer, and are free to attend.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Hugh Sheehan\u2019s ancestral accordion melodies reeled in the audiences at the RWCMD last Tuesday. He said, \u201cThe folk scene in Cardiff is not huge, to be honest, so we\u2019re doing our best to contribute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rapt attention of the audience before Hugh and his accordion last week suggested that Celtic culture might have finally found its place: traditional is the new offbeat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/STE-000.mp3\">Listen to an extract of one of the songs.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A monthly music night, established last month at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, hopes to promote interest in Cardiff\u2019s Celtic heritage. David Grubb, who runs the RWCMD Folk Society, set up the nights to redress the lack of awareness of traditional music in the capital city. The nights are called Folk In The Foyer, and are free to attend. \u00a0Hugh Sheehan\u2019s ancestral accordion melodies reeled in the audiences at the RWCMD last Tuesday. He said, \u201cThe folk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":10525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10],"tags":[2071,1972,963,2072,474,2073,2074,1357,1358,2075],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-uncategorized","tag-accordion","tag-celtic","tag-folk","tag-free","tag-guitar","tag-irish","tag-music-night","tag-royal-welsh-college-of-music-and-drama","tag-rwcmd","tag-traditional-music"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Revival of Celtic culture at RWCMD - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2012\/10\/21\/revival-of-celtic-culture-at-rwcmd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Revival of Celtic culture at RWCMD - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A monthly music night, established last month at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, hopes to promote interest in Cardiff\u2019s Celtic heritage. 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