Bibiel Hears Things: Robin Huw Bowen – “Cogau Meirion (Caniad Y Gog I Feirionnydd/Pibddawns Sir Feirionydd/Pibddawns Y Gog)” (Cuckoos of Meirionnydd (The Cuckoo’s Song to Meirionnydd/The Meirionnydd Hornpipe/The Cuckoo Hornpipe))

Hey people! Today I’d like to share with you a set of three harp tunes performed by Welsh triple harp player Robin Huw Bowen, and the thing all these three pieces have in common is a connection to Meirionnydd, or Merionethshire, a region in North Wales. Two of them, as you can tell from the title of this post, have been inspired by cuckoos, which seems fitting, as today earlier in the morning was the first time this year that my Dad and I heard a cuckoo around here. The first of these pieces, “Caniad y Gog i Feirionnydd” (The Cuckoo’s Song to Meirionnydd) is Robin Huw Bowen’s own composition. In fact, it’s only today, when I was considering featuring this piece, that I found out that this is his original tune, all thanks to Jack-Claude who enlightened me. I was primarily familiar with this tune because of a Welsh folk supergroup called Pendevig, who, on their 2018 album “Pendevig I”, featured a song called “Mae’r Enaid ym Meirionnydd” (My Soul is in Meirionnydd), sung by none other…