(1919-12-09)9 December 1919 Llanegryn, Merionethshire, Wales
Died
21 February 2015(2015-02-21) (aged 95)
Genres
Welsh folk music, traditional
Occupation(s)
Singer, television producer, academic professor, activist
Spouse(s)
Phyllis Kinney
(m. 1948)
Musical artist
Meredydd Evans (9 December 1919 – 21 February 2015), known colloquially as Merêd, was a collector, editor, historian and performer of folk music of Wales. A major figure in Welsh media for over half a century, Evans has been described as influencing "almost every sphere of Welsh cultural life, from folk music and philosophy to broadcasting and language politics".[1]
Evans first found prominence as a member of the popular singing group Triawd y Coleg. Beginning in the 1950s, he made award-winning Welsh language recordings and published collections and research in collaboration with his American-born wife Phyllis Kinney, helping to preserve and promote Welsh music worldwide. Evans served as Head of Light Entertainment at BBC Wales between 1963 and 1973 and was a leading campaigner for Welsh language rights. The archives of Evans and Kinney are now part of the Welsh Music Archive at the National Library of Wales.
^Stephens, Meic (13 July 2018). More Welsh Lives. Y Lolfa. ISBN 9781784616359. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
MeredyddEvans (9 December 1919 – 21 February 2015), known colloquially as Merêd, was a collector, editor, historian and performer of folk music of Wales...
Maredudd, also found in the form Meredydd and in other spellings, is a Welsh male given name. The English-language name Meredith derives from it. A pet...
Carl Rosa Opera Company during the 1940s. After meeting her husband MeredyddEvans, Kinney immersed herself in the culture of Wales. Through her writing...
Millward Gareth Miles Meic Stephens Owain Owain Emyr Llewelyn Ned Thomas MeredyddEvans Pennar Davies Eirian Llwyd R. Tudur Jones Bobi Jones Ffred Ffransis...
at University College of North Wales, Bangor in 1945 and comprising MeredyddEvans, Cledwyn Jones and Robin Williams. The trio achieved national fame as...
government requests. In the 1960s, the late Welsh singer, scholar and writer MeredyddEvans proposed that Wales should have its own entry in the Eurovision Song...
moved to the main town Blaenau Ffestiniog only a couple of miles away. MeredyddEvans (born Llanegryn, Wales 1919) was a collector, editor, historian and...
Wales (Phyllis and MeredyddEvans), Ireland (Scoil na Toirbhirte), and Brittany (Les Tregerez Group and Alan Stivell). MeredyddEvans engaged in discussions...
February – Sandy Whitelaw, 84, film producer and executive. 21 February MeredyddEvans, 95, professor, musician and television producer. Sir Anthony Grabham...
was the first local Welsh language newspaper, based on an idea by Dr MeredyddEvans. The paper was free until 2013, when they began to charge a fee. An...
Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens and Loudon Wainwright III Good Tradition Award: MeredyddEvans Hall of Fame: Ewan MacColl Venue: Millennium Centre, Cardiff Folk Singer...
mezzo-soprano, 82 16 February – John Davies, historian, 76 21 February – MeredyddEvans, professor, musician and television producer, 95 23 February John Rowlands...
cyclist (1960), Tour du Maroc winner (1960, 1964, 1965), heart attack. MeredyddEvans, 95, Welsh professor, musician and television producer. Sami Farag,...
Thomas (2007). Bearers of Song: Essays in Honour of Phyllis Kinney and MeredyddEvans. University of Wales Press. p. 304. ISBN 9780708320815. "BBC Wales Sport...
diplomat and politician (died 2018 in the United States) 9 December – MeredyddEvans, collector, editor, historian and performer of Welsh folk music (died...
(1786–1857), a Welsh Wesleyan minister and school teacher, born in Ty'nllan MeredyddEvans (1919–2015), singer, TV producer, academic, Welsh-language activist...
seventh generation. Names such as Llewelyn ap Dafydd ab Ieuan ap Gruffudd ap Meredydd were not uncommon. Those extended patronymics were essentially a genealogical...
Good (1909) by Hywel ap Cadell, translated by Arthur Wade Wade-Evans. See : Meredydd (Maredudd) and Owen (King Owain) Lloyd, J. E., (1959). BLEDDYN ap...
2011, Fflur has co-presented Cân i Gymru on S4C with Dafydd Meredydd (2011–2013), Gethin Evans (2014) and Trystan Ellis-Morris (2015–present). In 2012, she...
Morgan 1984–1992 Herbert Gwyther Alwyn Jones 1977–1988 Sandra Gwyther Sian Meredydd 1982–1984, 1988, 1992 Beti Harries Buddyg Williams 1974–1975 Dil Harries...
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