* Terry Waite giving his online peace address as part of the Global Peace Message.
* Mererid Hopwood reading her poem Harmoni a Heddwch for the Eisteddfod’s first Global Peace Message
* Jools Holland performing lines from Harmoni a Heddwch as part of the Global Peace Message.
* Floella Benjamin reading lines from Harmoni a Heddwch as part of the Global Peace Message.
* Elan Catrin Parry performing in the Global Peace Message.
* Sir Bryn Terfel.
* Online Mixed Choirs Competition Winners 2020: Stellenbosch University Choir, South Africa, performing Christopher Tin’s Baba Yetu in 2018 at Llangollen.
Thursday is traditionally Peace Day at Llangollen which
culminates in the Rotary International Peace Award and Parade of Nations on
stage.
This provided the inspiration for the online premiere of what is the
Eisteddfod’s first ever Global Peace Message,which included a specially commissioned poem Harmoni a Heddwch, by Mererid Hopwood
and a peace address from the Eisteddfod’s President, Terry Waite.
The poem was spoken by Hopwood and special
guests Jools Holland, Floella Benjamin and Bryn Terfel.
It also featured
children from YsgolRhostyllen, St Giles School Wrexham and YsgolDinas Bran, and
the first performance of a new piece of music, sung by Wrexham soprano, Elan
Catrin Parry.
The Welsh Centre for International Affairs’ Young
Peacemakers Awards celebrates young people who have contributed to peace and
global citizenship in their school, local community or overseas.
Due to
Covid-19, this year’s competition was moved online. The winners of the six categories were
announced on Thursday during a virtual ceremony where Year 6 pupils from
Ysgol Acrefair came second place in the Young Peacemakers category.
The Llangollen.TV online 2020 Mixed Choirs winner was South
Africa’s Stellenbosch University Choir, who swept the board in 2018 coming 1st
place in the Mixed, Youth and Open Choir categories.
Their winning performance of Christopher
Tin’s Baba Yetu in an arrangement by André van der Merwe, can be viewed on Llangollen.TV.
To catch up on these performances visit https://international-eisteddfod.co.uk/llangollen-online/daily-programme/thursday-9th-july/
As Llangollen Online moves into the weekend Saturday will
celebrate the usual finale to the Eisteddfod competitions with a special
feature on the last 25 years of Choir of the World.
Throughout the weekend the winners of the Llangollen TV
online categories for Folk Choirs, More Choirs and the Best Moment will also be
announced.
Finally on Sunday evening viewers can enjoy two items of TV
coverage. BBC 2 Wales will be showing highlights of the 2019 event at 6.30pm,
followed by a new documentary at 7.30pm on S4C which featuring best moments
from Eisteddfod concerts and competitions.
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