- Pontardawe Festival
Pontardawe Festival is an annual
festival ofworld music anddance which is held every August on the playing fields inPontardawe ,Wales , UK.The festival is run by volunteers on a
not-for-profit basis and has been held every year with one exception since it first started in 1978. Read about the full history of the Pontardawe Festival at their website. [http://www.pontardawefestival.com/a/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=11 Pontardawe Festival history]It has received funding in the past from the
Arts Council of Wales , but in 2006 the council decided to reduce funding to the festival and ask it to apply for lottery funding instead. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6176248.stm BBC News - Thursday, 23 November 2006, 13:28 GMT Warning of arts funding struggle] ]Pontardawe got lottery funding in 2006 [ [http://www.pontardawefestival.com/a/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=154 Pontardawe Festival - Sunday, 1 April 2007, 00:00 GMT PONTY 07 WINS THE LOTTERY!!] ]
External links
* [http://www.pontardawefestival.com/ Pontardawe Festival]
References
* [http://archive.southwalesguardian.co.uk/2002/8/1/12407.html South Wales Guardian, Thursday 1st Aug 2002 - Pontardawe Festival]
* [http://micnpt.menteriaith.org/saesneg/newyddion.php?hanes=-115 Menter Iaith Castell Nedd Port Talbot - Pontardawe Festival]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6176248.stm BBC News - Thursday, 23 November 2006, 13:28 GMT Warning of arts funding struggle]* [http://www.swansea.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=8225 City and County of Swansea - Library Bookfest at Pontardawe Festival]
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