Afternoon Workshops at BEAM 2017

These workshops are free to participants already booked on The Big Experiment, but if that's not you, then don't miss out. The timetable is subject to change if necessary

This ticket secures you a place at any one of the following workshops:

• Add some Cajun spice to your music - for instruments & voices. With Aidan Sheehan
Bring your guitars, fiddles, boxes, voices, harmonicas, triangles ... other instruments if you fancy being experimental - we'll see how that sounds - whatever, we'll learn some good ol' Cajun & Zydeco. "Ayeee chere!"

• Chops and grooves - rhythmic accompaniment for your tunes. With Jordan Price Williams
Jordan, who plays with inspiring new Welsh folk bands Vri, No Good Boyo and Elfen, lets us into some of his rhythm secrets. Suitable for cellos, harps, fiddles - any stringed instrument.

• Love, Death and Trains: narrative song. Bring voices or instruments
Morgan Jones o'r Dolau Gwyrddion, Y Blotyn Du – ballads of doomed lovers, greed, murder and mistaken identity; and Cân y Trên, a journey in song. In this musically illustrated talk, Guto will look at the stories that lie behind the ballads, their history and their tunes, as well as performing them. Feel welcome to bring your voices and instruments for the participatory bits.

• Clogging! (Do either or both)
Have a go at clogging with Huw (45 mins)
Now's your chance to try clog dance in the Welsh style - or refresh your steps. There'll be a number of pairs of clogs available to borrow, and you're guaranteed to be dancing by the end.
followed by Clocs Ffit! with Tudur (40 mins)
Aerobics meets Welsh clogging in the new fitness trend pioneered by our clog tutor Tudur Phillips. Learn clog steps and gym moves in this taster session, no experience needed and lots of clogs available for you to borrow. Wear light/comfortable clothes because it gets sweaty in Tudur’s clog gym!

• Gwerin Iau - young folk
Activities for children aged 7-10

Gweithdai'r prynhawn yn yr Arbrawf Mawr 2017

Mae'r gweithdai hyn yn rhad ac am ddim i'r rhai sydd eisoes wedi bwcio lle ar yr Arbrawf Mawr, ond os nad 'dych chi'n rhan ohono, peidiwch a cholli cyfle euraidd! D.S. Mae'n bosib y fydd y rhaglen yn newid, os oes angen.

Mae'r tocyn hwn yn gadarnhau lle i chi ar unrhyw un o'r gweithdai isod:
• Ychwanegu sbeis Cajun i'ch cerddoriaeth - i offerynnau a lleisiau. Gydag Aidan Sheehan
Dewch â’ch gitârs, eich ffidlau, bocsys, lleisiau, harmonicas, trionglau….. ac unrhyw offeryn arall os ‘dych chi’n ffansïo arbrofi – gadewch i ni weld sut bydd hynny’n swnio – beth bynnag, byddwn yn dysgu tipyn o’n hoff gerddoriaeth Cajun a Zydeco.

• Chops a grwfs - rhythmic accompaniment for your tunes. With Jordan Price Williams
Jordan, who plays with inspiring new Welsh folk bands Vri, No Good Boyo and Elfen, lets us into some of his rhythm secrets. Suitable for cellos, harps, fiddles - any stringed instrument.

• Cariad, Marwolaeth a Threnau: baledi. Dewch â'ch lleisiau a/neu offerynnau.
Gyda Guto Dafis
Morgan Jones o'r Dolau Gwyrddion, Y Blotyn Du - baledi o gariad annobeithiol, y barus, llofruddiaeth a dryswch adnabod; a Can y Tren, taith mewn can. Yn y sgwrs, gerddorol hon edrych Guto ar y straeon y tu ol i'r baledi, yr hanes a'u halawon, a bydd hefyd yn eu perfformio. Croeso i chi ddod a'ch lleisiau a'ch offerynnau i gymryd rhan.

• Clocs! (Gwnewch un neu’r llall neu’r ddau)
Rhowch dro ar ddawns y glocsen gyda Huw Williams (45 munud)
Dyma’ch cyfle chi i roi cynnig ar ddawns y glocsen yn y dull Cymreig – neu i adnewyddu’ch stepiau. Bydd sawl pâr o glocsiau ar gael i’w benthyg, ac ‘rydym yn gwarantu y byddwch yn dawnsio erbyn y diwedd!
wedyn ClocsFfit! gyda Tudur Phillips (40 munud)
Erobeg yn cwrdd â chlocsio Cymreig – dyma’r ffasiwn ddiweddaraf o gadw’n heini, ffasiwn a arloeswyd gan ein tiwtor dawns y glocsen, Tudur Phillips. Dawnsiwch hyd at ffitrwydd yn y sesiwn flasu hon – ‘does dim angen unrhyw brofiad blaenorol a bydd clocsiau ar gael i’w benthyg. Gwisgwch dillad cyfforddus/ysgafn, mae'n chwysad go iawn os ewch chi amdani! Cyfle i unrhywun i ddysgu cwpwl o stepiau clocsio ac hefyd ambell symudiad a welwch mewn campfa.

• Gwerin Iau
Gweithgareddau i blant 7-10