The St. David’s Society of Pittsburgh is gyffrous iawn (very excited!) to be hosting the 2024 North American Festival of Wales right here in our own backyard! Returning for the first time since 2009, we have many exciting and unique opportunities planned to make your 2024 Labor Day weekend one of the best yet.
Pittsburgh’s Welsh heritage has a long and prominent history, and is still going strong today. From early iron and steel-making processes and a long history of coal-mining, to our present-day Welsh language classes that are helping to keep the language alive, strengthening our legacy links, and fostering the flourishing interest in Welsh culture.
We’re very excited to be welcoming talent such as 2021 Albwm Cymraeg y Flwyddyn (Welsh Album of the Year) Mared, the 2023 Osbourne Roberts winner Llinos Haf Jones, the always-popular Mal Pope, the combined forces of the Dunvant and Brecon mens’ choirs, and a theatrical production about Amy Dillwyn of Swansea, one of the first female industrialists in Britain and, indeed, the world.
We hope you’ll make it a long weekend with us. There will be a Wednesday evening one-man show about Paul Robeson, the famous baritone, actor, and activist, who once said, “There is no place in the world I like more than Wales.” Thursday tours will include a visit to the University of Pittsburgh Nationality Rooms, including the Welsh Room, the design of which is based on Capel Penrhiw, which is now preserved at Sain Ffagan (St. Fagan’s) open air museum in Cardiff. The Monday tour will be a unique opportunity to view two Frank Lloyd Wright houses in one afternoon, one of those being, of course, arguably the most famous private home in the world: Fallingwater. The other, Kentuck Knob, though less well-known, is no less a masterpiece and both exemplify Wright’s credo that a building should enhance rather than eclipse its natural surroundings.
Our base for the weekend will be the Westin William Penn, a prime location with excellent travel links. The Saturday evening concert will be held in the August Wilson Center, also just across the street from the Westin. Hotel reservations are now open.
For reservations further information, please visit https://festivalofwales.org/index.html
You can help make our Festival a success by volunteering for one or more of the following:
Pittsburgh’s Welsh heritage has a long and prominent history, and is still going strong today. From early iron and steel-making processes and a long history of coal-mining, to our present-day Welsh language classes that are helping to keep the language alive, strengthening our legacy links, and fostering the flourishing interest in Welsh culture.
We’re very excited to be welcoming talent such as 2021 Albwm Cymraeg y Flwyddyn (Welsh Album of the Year) Mared, the 2023 Osbourne Roberts winner Llinos Haf Jones, the always-popular Mal Pope, the combined forces of the Dunvant and Brecon mens’ choirs, and a theatrical production about Amy Dillwyn of Swansea, one of the first female industrialists in Britain and, indeed, the world.
We hope you’ll make it a long weekend with us. There will be a Wednesday evening one-man show about Paul Robeson, the famous baritone, actor, and activist, who once said, “There is no place in the world I like more than Wales.” Thursday tours will include a visit to the University of Pittsburgh Nationality Rooms, including the Welsh Room, the design of which is based on Capel Penrhiw, which is now preserved at Sain Ffagan (St. Fagan’s) open air museum in Cardiff. The Monday tour will be a unique opportunity to view two Frank Lloyd Wright houses in one afternoon, one of those being, of course, arguably the most famous private home in the world: Fallingwater. The other, Kentuck Knob, though less well-known, is no less a masterpiece and both exemplify Wright’s credo that a building should enhance rather than eclipse its natural surroundings.
Our base for the weekend will be the Westin William Penn, a prime location with excellent travel links. The Saturday evening concert will be held in the August Wilson Center, also just across the street from the Westin. Hotel reservations are now open.
For reservations further information, please visit https://festivalofwales.org/index.html
You can help make our Festival a success by volunteering for one or more of the following:
- · Tea room volunteers
- · Welshcakes makers
- · Marketplace vendors
- · Registration table staffing
- · Event ushers and guides (for dinners, concerts, etc)
