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Linda Griffiths & Lisa Healy - "Tra Bo Dau" [Live at Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2009]

Linda Griffiths and her daughter Lisa Healy sing the traditional Welsh folk song "Tra Bo Dau" at the 2009 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, accompanied by Ceri Rhys Matthews on bagpipes. Linda is featured on Blodeugerdd: Song of the Flowers - An Anthology of Welsh Music and Song, out on Smithsonian Folkways.

Wales, a country as ancient as it is forward-looking, boasts a wealth of contemporary musicians who harvest the best of their past to craft an artful future. Blodeugerdd ("song of flowers" in the Welsh language) features a garland of intimate musical interpretations by leading keepers of Welsh music today. Each track is an act of remembering something personal and an illustration of how Welsh culture, in the words of producer Ceri Rhys Matthews, "has survived by quietude and tenacity." 14 tracks, 60 minutes, 44-page booklet with photos and bilingual notes.