Ffarwel (live at Real World Studios)

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9Bach peforming ‘Ffarwel’ live in The Wood Room at Real World Studios. ‘Ffarwel’ is a poem that comes from a book of local songs collected by Ieuan Wyn, a local bard and historian; songs that have been written by local people of the centuries. It is about a quarry man leaving the quarry for the last time.

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