Plethyn – Blas y Pridd

Welsh traditional folk music possesses a unique treasure in plygain: a rustic, close-harmony singing tradition originally sung unaccompanied in rural chapels at Christmas dawn. Montgomeryshire trio Plethyn (Roy Saer, Linda Healy and John Daniels) brought that austere, modal harmony into the folk revival on this 1979 debut. Accompanied only by acoustic guitar and mandolin, their close Welsh-language vocal blend on songs like Caneuon y Medel reveals an intimate, rural Welsh tradition that sounds like nothing else in the Celtic world.