INTRODUCING
a Cabinet of Curiosities
Illustrator Storyteller Writer
Peter Stevenson
Myra
The lost fairy tales and folk songs of west Wales
Chwedlau a chaneuon colledig gorllewin Cymru
Fairy tales and folk music collected by Myra Evans of Ceinewydd, Ceredigion
Ceri Owen-Jones;
telyn, llais, trombon
harp, voice, trombone
Elsa Davies;
ffidl, llais
fiddle, voice
Peter Stevenson;
storiwr, darlunydd
storyteller, illustration
Ceri Rhys Matthews;
produced
Jens Schroeder;
recording engineer
Myra Evans was born in Ceinewydd, Ceredigion, at midnight between November 1st and 2nd 1883, the night of All Souls, when the veil between this world and the Otherworld is at its thinnest. She collected fairy tales and folk songs, recipes and recollections, relics and antiquities, from her parents and grandparents, and from the old sea captains and cobblers of Cei. She kept dozens of notebooks and sketchbooks, containing a priceless record of 'the the small and hardly known and never to be forgotten people of the little town.'
The cottages at Pentre Garth, Ceinewydd, featured in Myra's story, and where we recorded the lost fairy tales and folk music of Ceredigion.
