You’ll have read in our previous post that Gladsmuir Church is running a series of “Sing at 6:30” events in aid of Friends of Gladsmuir. At 6:30pm next Sunday (17 May) we are invited to come along and raise the Gladsmuir church roof singing at a Welsh Hymn Night led by our very own Huw Thomas.

Gladsmuir Church is 15 miles from Edinburgh, on the A199, just off the A1 between Tranent and Haddington: directions at this link.

If you’re within travelling distance of Tranent, the Sunday evening come-and-sing worship events in aid of Christian Aid organised by Gladsmuir Parish Church come highly recommended by our member Alan Campbell.

A second EWS connection is our member Huw Thomas (see our Gymanfa report) who gave a night of Welsh hymns two years ago and has been asked back for a Welsh Hymn Night on Sunday 17 May at 6:30pm. Huw also plays keyboard in the Heart & Soul Swing Band who feature on 13 September.

For more details, click the image.

The unique Male Voice Choir concert at St Giles’ Cathedral on Saturday 11 April, which featured the Brythoniad Male Voice Choir and the Edinburgh Police Choir, was a real success, and we used the occasion to promote the Society with announcements and flyers.

The following day, committee member Hywel Williams phoned Radio Cymru and gave the “John ac Alun” 9-to-midnight show a review of the evening in St Giles’. The presenters gave Hywel and EWS a good mention on air, with details of the next Brythoniaid gig, and then played Brythoniaid’s rendition of Gydan Gilydd.

You can listen to the programme for the next month at this link. The introduction starts at 1:42:46, with the choir singing from 1:43:44. What we said on the flier you can read more easily if you click the image.

You are warmly invited to St Giles’ Cathedral at 7.00pm on Saturday 11 April 2026 for a unique Male Voice Choir Concert featuring the Brythoniad Male Voice Choir, seven times Welsh National Champions, together with the Edinburgh Police Choir.

Tickets £22.38 (including booking fee) from Ticketsource.

If you’ve ever tried learning Welsh, you’ll have come across mutations. Not the sort in genes that lead to changes in characteristics and eventually in species, but those infuriating modifications to (or omissions of) initial consonants according to gender and context.

In which case you may interested in the Mutations Map illustrated above. Two-sided laminated A4 sheets, developed by teams of specialists, learners, dialectologists, linguists, and grammarians, they explain all the core rules of mutations and gender in Welsh, and are fully colour-coded to make understanding easier.

They are available from bookshops (ISBN: 978-0956493408) or online at the Books Council of Wales.