Saturday 5th August 2006

Tickets are NOW available

Festival Dance
Huw Evans Entertains with Kitty John and her Dancers

Efan 'JCB' Davies will be compare for this evening.

Venue: Laugharne Millennium Memorial Hall

Tickets: £5.00
Time: Doors open at 7.30pm (bring your own refreshments)

Conway Davies an eminent local historian will give a guided 'Under Milk Wood' walking tour.

Venue and Time: Meet on the Grist at 1.00pm.

Tickets: £3.00, pre booking is advisable.

A second walk may take place at 3.00pm subject to demand.

Biographies:

Huw Evans

Huw is a well known local singer who has gained a reputation as a man who will provide 'a good night out.

He is 52 years old and is heavily influenced by Daniel O'Donell, in fact it was as a result of learning Daniel's songs that he started out as a singer. Over time Huw has added different types of music to his repertoire, Rock and Roll, Country and Western and standard 'Pop’, and of course his favourite 'Irish Music’.

Huw is married to Tessa, and on their 25th Wedding
Anniversary, her present to him was a day at the Recording Studio. The album that was produced has the apt title, 'Silver Dreams', Tessa is still his manager, they are proud parents and grandparents, Huw and Tessa live in Laugharne.

Huw can be contacted on 01994 427588

Evan Davies

Evan JCB Davies MBE is well known across West Wales for his tireless charity work for the Dr.el-Sharkawi Fund. JCB Davies and Dr.el-Sharkawi joined forces to change cancer services in Wales. They have organise concerts and raised funds over 20 years, this enables the Doctor to go to the Welsh Assembly to ask for support for the improvement of cancer services. Before this fund local people had to go to London for treatment. JCB has appeared at many concerts with our own Huw Evans, his comic wit is sure to keep you entertained!

Conway Davies

He is a fluent Welsh speaker and is closely involved with many aspects of Welsh culture. Graduated in History from Bangor University, and gained an MA from Cardiff University. He is now actively researching and publishing works on eighteenth and nineteenth century poor law provision and mental health. He is the course director for an MA Welsh History programme at Trinity College a constituent college of the University of Wales, and also lectures in sociology. For the past ten years he has been lecturing to American exchange students on aspects of British and Welsh history.

He runs his own consultancy and has been involved in running a number of oral history programmes. His most recent project was interviewing over a hundred farmers for the Museum of Welsh Life and the National Library of Wales and is at present running a cultural survey for one of the police forces within Wales He has extensive knowledge of the history and culture of both North and South Wales and is an active historian writing articles for learned journals and books.

Two books soon to be published by the University of Wales Press are "The History of Poor Law provision in South Wales", and 'Out of Sight, Out of Mind: the History of Mental Health provision in South Wales'. He has made a number of radio and television programmes in both English and Welsh.