Festival joy at grants.THE committee of Gwyl Cadi CADI. The name of a civil magistrate among the Turks. Ha - the Flintshire folk dance folk dance, primitive, tribal, or ethnic form of the dance, sometimes the survival of some ancient ceremony or festival. The term is used also to include characteristic national dances, country dances, and figure dances in costume to folk tunes. festival to be held on the last weekend of April - has welcomed a number of grants to help with the costs of this year's festival. Committee chairman and former Holywell town councillor Chris Bailey said: "Over recent weeks we have received grants of pounds 50 from theWelsh Folk Dance Society, pounds 50 from Clwb Cinio Y Fflint (a gentlemen's dinner club that has met in Holywell since the 1969 Flint National Eisteddfod eisteddfod (īstĕth`vəd, –vôd) [Welsh,=session], Welsh competitive festival. Contests traditionally are held in all the arts and crafts, with special emphasis on music and poetry. ) and now we understand that Holywell Town Council is to give us a grant of pounds 500, Gwyl Plant Cymru (a nationalWelsh children's dance festival) is to give us pounds 95 and we are awaiting the profits from the St David's Celebration concert at Theatr Clwyd. To a small festival working on a shoestring budget these grants have made all the difference. "This year's festival will be the 9th annual festival . On the last weekend of April we will welcome a coachload of dancers and musicians from Holywell's twin town of St Gregoire in Brittany." |
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