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\"8th<\/a>Congratulations to Elinor Evans<\/a>, winner of the Troph\u00e9e Camac<\/a> at 2015’s Festival Interceltique de Lorient!<\/p>\n

Based in Scotland but from\u00a0a Welsh family, Elinor describes herself as a hybrid between two Celtic cultures.\u00a0She began her harp studies\u00a0with\u00a0Meinir Heulyn<\/a>\u00a0in Cardiff,\u00a0before\u00a0moving to Edinburgh. She then studied Scottish Traditional Music in Glasgow with\u00a0Isobel Mieras<\/a>\u00a0– and has now moved back to Cardiff, where she is currently a postgraduate in lever harp performance and classical composition. “Everything I write has traditional music influences in it, even if I don’t set out to do that”, she says. “This is\u00a0my culture and my music is a reflection of that.”<\/p>\n

There are many connections between\u00a0the Celtic lands – but in fact, the paths linking\u00a0Wales and Scotland are not as direct as those between Wales and Brittany, or Scotland and Ireland. Scotland and Ireland are Gaelic; Wales and Brittany (and Cornwall), Brithonic. Cultural convergence and divergence gets even more interesting in a musical context. The\u00a0harp is Wales’s national symbol, \u00a0culturally prominent since Medieval times and across several different\u00a0types of harp. The Celtic clarsach, however,\u00a0did not arrive in Wales until the 1970s – and this is Scotland’s oldest national instrument<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Elinor<\/a>

Elinor Evans<\/p><\/div>\n

“I’ve recently formed a duo with the Welsh fiddle player Patrick Rimes<\/a>“, Elinor continues. “We’re so recent we don’t have a name yet, but we’re already playing\u00a0Welsh-Scottish fusion with a contemporary twist. I’m first and foremost a Clarsach player, so I perform on that. It’s very exciting to be exploring Welsh avenues on the Clarsach. The history of traditional music, be it in Scotland or in Wales, shows that all harps are\u00a0incredibly versatile\u00a0instruments in their\u00a0own right. They can take on influences from wherever they find themselves,\u00a0moving seamlessly between traditional and contemporary settings. That’s why traditional harp music is\u00a0constantly finding new voices, and staying so dynamic and vital.”<\/p>\n

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