‘It’s Glastonbury on wheels’: bards and musicians flock to eisteddfod to celebrate Welsh culture

This year’s event, Eisteddfod y Garreg Las, is being held near Cardigan in west Wales and celebrates the festival’s 850th birthday By 1176, Lord Rhys ap Gruffydd, a medieval Welsh prince, had become one of the most powerful rulers the country had ever known. He’d successfully banished Norman invaders from his lands, made peace with King Henry and rebuilt Cardigan castle in stone. Prosperous and secure, he threw a grand holiday tournament, inviting bards and musicians to play and compete under his patronage in the first recorded eisteddfod, roughly, a “sitting together” – a tradition that still

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