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Meredydd Evans on Recording Welsh Folk Songs

Meredydd Evans recorded Welsh Folk Songs for Folkways Records in 1954, when he was a graduate student at Princeton University. He then went on to a long and distinguished career as a professor of philosophy and a radio and television personality. In August 2008, at age eighty-eight in his home in Cwmystwyth, Wales, Evans recalled the process of the recording. To see a video excerpt of the interview, visit www.festival.si.edu.

"Mo Asch [head of Folkways] contacted me in Princeton and asked me if I would sing some Welsh folk songs. I was thrilled; I said yes, I would be delighted!

"I had assumed what he wanted me to do first was to sing him some

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