Yes indeed, it was Christmas 1986 when I gave up gainful employment at our National Library… to be happy. A desk job amongst sleepy archives just didn’t suit this restless romantic. But who would have thought then that life ‘on-the-road’ would take me so far…? In and out of the airports of North America, back and forth along the motorways of Europe, or across the wide red lands of Australia under her broad blue skies, even right around the world once… and all of it with a six-foot Welsh Triple Harp in tow!


1. Helfa'r Draenog ( The Hedgehog Hunt)
Ladis Y Ddawns/Jig Eldra (Ladies A-Dance /
Eldra's Jig)
2. Set Napoleon (Napoleonic Set)
Napoleon Yn Croesi'r Alpau / Rowdi Bois Napoleon /Dychwelyd O Baris Yn Y Flwyddyn
1818 (Napoleon Crossing the Alps / Napoleon's Rowdy Boys / The Return from Paris in the Year 1818
3. Pibddawnsiau Sipsi ( Gipsy Hornpipes)
Pibddawns Y Nafi/Pibddawns Wrecsam
(The Navvy's Hornpipe / The Wrexham Hornpipe)
4. Cig A Chwrw ( Meat and Ale)
Cig Ar Drensiwr/Y Facsen Felen (Meat on a
Trencher / The Yelloe Brew)
5. Mympwyon (Whims)Mympwy Gruffydd/Y Cwac Cymreig/Y Cambro-Frython ( Griffith's
Whim / The Wesh Quack / The Cambro -Briton)
6. Cogau Meirion ( The Meirionnydd Cuckoos) Caniad Y Gog i Feirionnydd /
Pibddawns Sir Feirionnydd/Pibddawns Y Gog
(The Cuckoo's Song to Meirionnydd / The
Meirionnydd Hornpipe / The Cuckoo's Hornpipe
7. Hoff Jigiau (Favourite Jigs)
Llancesau Trefaldwyn/Helfa Llannerch-Y-Medd/Deildy Abertaifi ( Maids of Montgomery / Llannerch-y-medd Hunt / Cardigan Bower
8. Waltsiau Sipsi (Gipsy Waltzes)
Ffos Noddun 11/Ffos Noddun 1(Fairy Glen 11 / Fairy Glen 1)
9. Abergenni/Difyrrwch William Phillip
(Abergenni / William Phillip's Delight)
10.Alabaina Wood:
Coedwigwyr Llewenni/Polca Albaina
( The Lleweni Foresters / Albania's Polka)
11.Jig Y Doethion ( The Magi Jig)
12.Miniwets Meirionnydd (The Meirionnydd
Minuets) Miniwets Dolgellau/ Miniwets Nannau ( The Dolgellau Minuet / The Nannau Minuet)
13.Jigiau Crasdant (Crasdant Jigs)
Brenhines Mynwy/Brenin Y Lleuad /
Llapydwndwr (The Queen of Monmouth / The King of the Moon / The Tittle-Tattle Tipple
14.Pibddawns Y Fflash (Flash Hornpipes) Pad/Y Ffordd Aberystwyth ( The Flash Pad
Hornpipe / The Road to Aberystwyth)

Yes indeed, it was Christmas 1986 when I gave up gainful employment at our National Library… to be happy. A desk job amongst sleepy archives just didn’t suit this restless romantic. But who would have thought then that life ‘on-the-road’ would take me so far…? In and out of the airports of North America, back and forth along the motorways of Europe, or across the wide red lands of Australia under her broad blue skies, even right around the world once… and all of it with a six-foot Welsh Triple Harp in tow!

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Robin Hugh Bowen: Welsh Triple Harp