Caravan song wins Mair ballad prize.

MAIR Tomos Ifans was celebrating in her caravan on the sprawling Eisteddfod camp site after winning the ballad competition - with a song about a caravan.

She said: "It's the first time I've competed at the Eisteddfod: I did it in response to an appeal for more to compete on the old ballad competition in memory of Elfed Lewis who did so much to keep the art alive."

Mair, from Dinas Mawddwy, had to write the ballad before the end of June.

"It has to be witty and topical but the funny thing is that when I wrote it I didn't have a space on the caravan site. I was going to be in a tent until I got a cancellation.

"The prize (pounds 75) will come in useful to pay the site fees," she added.

Mair, who is well known in acting circles, is having a busy Eisteddfod.

She rushed from the stage yesterday after her ballad victory to the Literary Pavilion to give a performance of Angharad Tomos' Dan Glo (Locked up)

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