Competition C5 Cultural Showcase

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Name Country Total Mark Position
KZN Midlands Youth Choir South Africa 88.7 1st
Loughgiel Folk Dancers Northern Ireland 83 2nd
MOTHER TOUCH DANCE GROUP Zimbabwe 78.7 3rd
Gabhru Panjab de India 76.3 4th

Competition A6 Junior Children’s Choirs

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Name Country Total Mark Position
Lindley Junior School Choir England 90 1st
Cor Ysgol Pen Barras Cymru 89 2nd
Truro School Prep Choir Cornwall 88.3 3rd
Ysgol Gerdd Ceredigion Cymru 87.7 4th
COR GLANAETHWY Cymru 86.7 5th
Bax Choir, Heath Mount School England 85.7 6th
Children’s Choir of Musamari Ch Estonia 85 7th
Ysgol Llwyncelyn Cymru 84.7 8th
Hereford Cathedral Junior School England 83.3 9th

Competition A8 Children’s Folk Song Choirs

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Name Country Total Mark Position
Cantabile Girls’ Chior England  89.3 1st
Piedmont Children’s Choir USA 88.3 2nd
BAAO CHILDREN AND YOUTH CH Philippines  86.7 3rd
KZN Midlands Youth Choir South Africa 86 4th
Cor Heol y March Cymru 84.3 5th
Children’s Choir of Musamari Ch Estonia 84 6th
Palmdale High School Chamber Sin USA 83.7 7th
Cor Ysgol Pen Barras Cymru 83 8th
Highcliffe Junior Choir England 82.3 9th

Mobile App Launched for 2017 Llangollen Eisteddfod

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Visitors to this year’s Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod will be able to access vital information about the festival through its new mobile app, Llangollen.

Built by Caernarfon-based creative agency, Galactig the free app contains content in both Welsh and English and is available now on both Apple and Android.

It contains videos of all the competitions from the pavilion stage, a timetable of all the main activities on the Eisteddfod field, information on all evening concerts and an interactive map of the site.

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Joint Winners Announced for International Peace Award

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An organisation that speaks out to alleviate suffering and a weapons amnesty initiative have both won the Rotary International Peace Award.

The Oswestry-based British Ironworks and Médecins Sans Frontières were jointly awarded the accolade at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod’s 70th Anniversary Opening Concert on Monday 3rd July.

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Dancing in the Street: Mini Eisteddfod Comes to Chester

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Chester City Centre played host to a vibrant display of music and dance on Monday 3rd July, as an international street festival marked the start of the Llangollen International Eisteddfod’s 70th anniversary festival and it’s ‘mini Eisteddfod’ in Chester.

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Ysgol Y Gwernant Peace Message – Photocaption

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Pupils from Ysgol Y Gwernant in Llangollen practising hard ahead of their performance of the poignant Peace Message. The local pupils will perform the Peace Message – an annual highlight of the festival – on the International Pavilion stage on Thursday 6th July as part of the International Celebration. The performance will also be delivered tomorrow [TUESDAY 4th JULY] during Children’s Day. This year the message – which has been coordinated by former Eisteddfod employee, Christine Dukes – reflects on the history of the Eisteddfod and in particular its relationship with the weather.