Rugby Six Nations 2009

[Peter C.]

Bryn Terfel once sang Rule Brittania at the Last Night of the Proms wearing a Wales rugby outfit!

I think the Max Boyce bit is due to the chorus of a song he wrote that was taken up by the rugby supporters:

And they were singing, hymns and arias
Land of My Fathers
Ar Hyd y Nos

I would have loved to have seen that, I do like Bryn Terfel.

I think you are right about the Max Boyce song because we used to hear the fans singing it and he used to get his audiences singing it at his shows and it was quite stirring, and stuck in the minds of us guys from over the border.

What does "Ar Hyd y Nos" mean?

Peter

[McClef]

It's the song that you would know as All through the Night Peter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar_Hyd_y_Nos

[Peter C.]

It's the song that you would know as All through the Night Peter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar_Hyd_y_Nos

Thank you Trefor, I didn't realize, I have a recording of Bryn Terfel singing that in Welsh, it is absolutely beautiful, but I didn't pay any attention to the words because I didn't understand them.

Peter

[Tony]

I would have loved to have seen that, I do like Bryn Terfel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR_bJFpilu8

[McClef]

A great find - that vid is of his second appearance though.

[Peter C.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR_bJFpilu8

Thank you

Peter