Programme 2012

Saturday 21st April 2012 - "Hands on Harp" - St. Michael's Centre, Abergavenny.  View flyer (PDF)     View programme  (PDF)

AGM, May 27th 2012 at Llanfoist Village Hall, Guest Speaker Dr Robin Gwyndaf - "Culture in Action"

22nd September 2012 Concert Cwmdu Church, , Robin Huw Bowen

Hands on Harp      View flyer (PDF)     View programme  (PDF)
10am until 5pm - Saturday 21st April 2012
St. Michael's Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, NP7 5UD

A day to play the harp

• Sessions for complete beginners and improvers
• Bring your own harp, or harp available on prior request
• Free taster sessions during lunchtime
• Relaxed atmosphere - Experienced tutors
• Short concert at end of day by tutors

Free Tea and Coffee throughout day
£12 full day to include light lunch (Members £5) - £5 half day (Members free)
Children under 12 half price

Tutors

Angharad Evans		Ruth Thomas

Programme

Morning
9.30 - 10.00 - Registration
10.00 - 10.15 - Welcome
10.15 - 11.15 - Morning Session part 1
11.15 - 11.30 - Coffee/Tea Break
11.30 - 12.30 - Morning Session part 2
12.30 - 2.00 - Lunch break. Opportunity to try out different types of harps

Afternoon
2.00 - 3.00 - Afternoon Session part 1
3.00 - 3.15 - Coffee/Tea Break
3.15 - 4.15 - Afternoon Session part 2
4.15 - 4.45 - Concert

Participants can elect to join the beginner or improver class for a morning or afternoon session or for the full day. The above timetable will apply to both classes.

For further information and booking contact
Gill Madley 01873 812318 gill@madley.org or
Robin Davies 01594 563172 robinbronllys@aol.com

Day kindly Sponsored by Clive Morley Harps Ltd

1 October 2011 - Guided walk - "Cwmdu" - Leader Keith Bush.

3 December 2011 - "Twmpath - Folk Dance"  St. Michael's Centre, Abergavenny - with "Gwerinwyr Gwent".

Annual General Meeting 2011
The AGM of the Lady Llanover Society will be held at
Llanfoist Village Hall, Llanfoist, Abergavenny at
2 p.m. on Sunday 22nd May 2011

AGENDA

1. Apologies for absence
2. Minutes of the Annual General Meeting 2010
3. Secretary's Report
4. Treasurer’s Report
5. Election of Officers
6. Election of Committee Members
7. Any Other Business

The meeting will be followed at 3 p.m. by

"Morfydd's Diary" - Eiry Palfrey
Eiry is a well known performer who has appeared on a number of S4C programmes. She is also a TV producer, and author of books for Welsh learners and children. Eiry first wrote and performed a one woman show on Lady Llanofer entitled "Morfydd’s Diary" at the National Eisteddfod in Newport in 1988. Morfydd is an imaginary maid in the service of Lady Llanover and has recorded the main events of her mistress’ life in her diary. On the day of her mistress’ funeral she reads from the diary recalling her eventful and prolific life.

Admission Free

Annual General Meeting 2010
The AGM of the Lady Llanover Society will be held at
St. Michael’s Centre, Abergavenny
3 p.m. on Saturday 20th March 2010

AGENDA

1. Apologies for absence
2. Minutes of the Annual General Meeting 2008
3. Chairman’s Report 
4. Treasurer’s Report
5. Special Discussion – “A Possible Way Forward”
6. Election of Officers
7. Election of Committee Members
8. Any Other Business

Followed at 4:30 p.m. by a PRESENTATION by ELINOR BENNETT

The Lady Llanover Society is  delighted to present  Elinor Bennett, possibly the best-known and  certainly the most influential of Welsh harpists. Elinor is Artistic  Director of the Wales International Harp Festival (4 – 10 April 2010), which celebrates the 300th anniversary of the birth of John Parry (Parri Ddall). Elinor will talk about John Parry, play some of his  music, and introduce the Festival and its artists.

How to find St. Michael’s Centre Abergavenny

Exhibition: Mrs Delany and her Circle
Sir John Soane’s Museum, 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3BP
19 February – 1 May 2010.

Lady Llanover was a great-great niece of Mrs Delany, née Mary Granville (1700-1788), and this exhibition is the first one to survey her entire life and the full range of her creative endeavours. In her will, Lady Llanover ‘bequeathed to the Trustees of the British Museum the cabinet and stand at Llanover containing the unique collection of plants and flowers from nature by Mrs Delany, which it was the express wish of George III should be preserved in the British Museum as a standard work of art …. and to the National Portrait Gallery the portrait at Great Stanhope Street of  Mary Granville (Mrs Delany) by Opie.’

Our member, the distinguished writer, Ruth Hayden, who is another descendant of Lady Llanover, is the author of Mrs Delaney, her life and her flowers (Colonnade Books 1988).

Lady Llanover’s monumental The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville  was published in a new edition in January 2009.

Le Manoir de Kernault Mellac, Lorient, Brittany 
Exhibition Impressions de Voyage, un jeune Breton au Pays de Galles 
6 February – 21 March 2010

Based on letters home by the 21-year-old Vicomte Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué when he visited Abergavenny and Merthyr in 1838.

Twmpath
The Priory Centre, Abergavenny
27th March 2010
7:30 to 11:00 (tickets £10 on the door)

In support of Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, Blaenau Gwent

Second Wales International Harp Festival
Caernarfon 4 – 10 April 2010

Concerts, classes and competitions.  See website www.wales-harp-festival.com for details.
Elinor Bennett will also bring leaflets to the Lady Llanover Society A.G.M.

Gŵyl Gregynog Festival
St Mary’s Church, Ruabon,
Thursday, 10 June 2010. 

Celebrating John Parry  Day programme: with speakers Ann Griffiths, Miles Wynn Cato and Dr Oliver Fairclough.
Concert 7.30 p.m with triple harpists to include Robin Huw Bowen, Rhes Ganol, Angharad Evans and Ann Griffiths

Annual General Meeting 2008
The AGM of the Lady Llanover Society will be held at
5 p.m. Sunday 22 June 2008
At the Village Hall  
TREGARE, RAGLAN

AGENDA

1. Apologies for absence
2. Minutes of the Annual General Meeting 2007
3. Chairman’s Report
4. Treasurer’s Report
5. Election of Officers
6. Election of Committee Members
7. Any Other Business

To be followed by a
HARP RECITAL
by Benjamin Creighton Griffiths & Eleri Darkins

ST MARY’S CHURCH
TREGARE
at 6.15 p.m.

Tickets £5.00
(Members of Lady Llanover Society - free)

Tickets available from Abergavenny Music / The Lady Llanover Society - 01291 690517

A wonderful opportunity to appreciate the talent of this remarkable young artist prior to his appearances at the World Harp Congress, Amsterdam and in Paris.  Benjamin will be supported by Eleri Darkins, who will play the triple harp so dear to Lady Llanover's heart, as well as the concert harp in a duo performance with Benjamin of Russian virtuoso Andres Izmaylov's 'Toward the Sun'.

Eleri is newly returned from three years teaching at the prestigious Tamnak Prathom Centre in Bangkok.

Sponsored jointly by Cymdeithas Gwenynen Gwent and Ysgol y Delyn.

TWMPATH (A Welsh Ceilidh)
A Celebration of welsh music and dance
featuring
Gwerinwyr Gwent
(Gwent’s popular Folk Dance Group)

TICKETS including buffet £12.00 (members £10.00)
AVAILABLE FROM:
ABERGAVENNY MUSIC tel: 01873 853394
or Members of the Committee

HANDS ON HARP
Never touched a harp? Here’s your opportunity
Classes on Celtic Harp and Triple Harp, Exhibition and Concert

Experience the harp!

Whole day for complete beginners or those who want to
‘start in the middle’ or you could just come and listen.

Classes on the Celtic Harp
and Welsh Triple Harp

Relaxed atmosphere – Classes with Distinguished teachers
An introduction to the History of the Harp and a small exhibition of historical harps
Celtic harps will be provided for participants. Closing concert 4.40 p.m.

Price for the whole day £10.00 to include tea or coffee and inclusive of closing concert.
Lunch available mid-day, but must be ordered and paid for in advance.

Further details:
adlais@btinternet.com (Tel: 01291-690517 or 02920-341462)
or                         
robinbronllys@aol.com (Tel: 01594-563172)

The Society is sponsoring the Lady Llanover Prize for the best instrumentalist under the age of 25. The 2005 winner was the Harpist Benjamin Creighton Griffiths.

SUNDAY 26th MARCH 2006

National Gardens Scheme

SATURDAY 25th MARCH 2006

Annual General Meeting of the Society