{"id":15686,"date":"2017-02-10T14:05:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T14:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=15686"},"modified":"2017-02-10T17:09:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:09:51","slug":"cardiff-celebrates-welsh-language-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/cardiff-celebrates-welsh-language-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff celebrates Welsh language music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music lovers have been sharing their favourite Welsh music on Twitter\u00a0to celebrate\u00a0Welsh Language Music Day.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Organisers hope it\u00a0will encourage people to listen to something different and promote Welsh artists.<\/p>\n<p>Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens is an ambassador for the event:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelsh language music deserves to be celebrated and this is a great way of doing it, getting the whole country and music fans around the world aware and involved in the immense talent we have in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The day will introduce a lot of people to some amazing music they may never have heard otherwise. There&#8217;s such a lot of passionate people involved in making things happen, from the bands and labels, the venues and promoters, the media and the music fans who just want this brilliant music to be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today is Welsh Language Music Day. What dyou mean you&#39;ve never heard Welsh music?! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DyddMiwsigCymru?src=hash\">#DyddMiwsigCymru<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cNerYCc6TP\">https:\/\/t.co\/cNerYCc6TP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Schoolboy Huw (@huwstephens) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/huwstephens\/status\/829965636113723393\">February 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Events are being held throughout Wales\u00a0including in Cardiff where a pop up festival is taking place\u00a0at the Castle Emporium.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bethan Elfyn says today is a chance to spread Welsh language music further. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DyddMiwsigCymru?src=hash\">#DyddMiwsigCymru<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cardiff?src=hash\">#cardiff<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BethanElfyn\">@BethanElfyn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HTTJxllkca\">pic.twitter.com\/HTTJxllkca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alasdair Keane (@alasdairkeano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alasdairkeano\/status\/830100849401724931\">February 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Businesses have also been getting involved with Co-op supermarkets in Wales only\u00a0playing Welsh language music all day.<\/p>\n<p>People have been tweeting their favourite artists using <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23DyddMiwsigCymru&amp;src=typd\">#DyddMiwsigCymru<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music lovers have been sharing their favourite Welsh music on Twitter\u00a0to celebrate\u00a0Welsh Language Music Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15686"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15805,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686\/revisions\/15805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}