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646:. In 1999, Evans appeared in court after refusing to pay his TV licence, stating there had been a decrease in the amount of Welsh broadcasting over the proceeding decade. He was prepared to face imprisonment, but the fine was paid on his behalf by friends who were concerned about his health. From 1998, Evans spearheaded the campaign to establish the
642:, Evans attacked central and local government for ignoring the cultural effects of large-scale inward migration of monoglot English-speakers into rural areas in Wales. In 1993, he entered Carmarthen Crown Court with several other prominent Welsh figures and destroyed the judge's chair in an ultimately successful campaign for a
652:. When it was finally set up in 2011, Evans was named President of Cyfeillion y Coleg (Friends of the Coleg) and given an Honorary Fellowship at the Coleg's inaugural Annual Meeting in Swansea. In March 2014, Evans was quoted as backing further peaceful demonstrations by Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg following protests in
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volume for Evans and Kinney, "a fully bilingual collection of critical essays on various aspects of Welsh song and traditional music by Wales’ leading experts and musicologists" to celebrate their contribution "not only to Welsh traditional music but to the very culture and language of Wales." Evans'
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and engineer, worked at the Foel granite quarry whilst
Charlotte fostered a cultured homelife, encouraging her children to read widely and singing to them, giving Evans his first exposure to Welsh folk songs. When Evans was fourteen, he left school after his father became too ill to work and
631:'s administration into establishing a Welsh language television channel. The three were found guilty at Carmarthen Crown Court of illegally switching off the transmitter, but the campaign has been widely credited as contributing to the 1982 launch of the Welsh language broadcasting service
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on religious grounds in early 1940. Evans remained a lifelong advocate of nonviolence. In
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I saw myself that you have to struggle consciously for your identity. Not because you're better than anybody else, or because your culture is any more great. It just happens to be yours, and you make sense of your life in terms of that culture.
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Christian beliefs more than ever with these wars which occur today. The creation of the atomic bomb and weapons like that mean you wouldn't have a world war, but global destruction. There's nothing that could justify that.
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allowed the couple to devote their retirement to studying the history of folk songs and tunes; their research appeared regularly in Canu Gwerin, the journal of the Welsh Folk Song
Society. In April 2007, the
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during his tenure. Evans unsuccessfully applied for the post of Head of
Programmes in 1969, and left his role as Head of Light Entertainment in 1973. He then joined the Department of Extramural Studies at
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in 1950, with Evans playing a farmer's son who dreams of greater things. During the 1960s, Triawd y Coleg recorded a series of singles and EPs for Welsh
Teldisc and, in the 1970s, made two albums for
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Bearers of Song: Essays in Honour of Phyllis Kinney and Meredydd Evans
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Meic Stephens (ed.), 'Cydymaith i Lenyddiaeth Cymru' (Caerdydd, 1997).
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awards the Meredydd Evans Memorial Prize (Gwobr Merêd) each year.
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Volumes 1&2. Welsh Folk Songs. Welsh Folk-Song Society.
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1518:Hale, Constance (3 February 2016).
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