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Community groups and schools work with Wales’s folk arts organisation to set stories of the area’s people to musicGrowing up in Wales, Liz Puleston-Jones was familiar with the country’s rich heritage of storytelling and traditional music, but none of it ever seemed to have much of a connection to her life in Swansea. Researching the history of the area as…
Published September 17, 2026 · Category: News
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Community groups and schools work with Wales’s folk arts organisation to set stories of the area’s people to music
Growing up in Wales, Liz Puleston-Jones was familiar with the country’s rich heritage of storytelling and traditional music, but none of it ever seemed to have much of a connection to her life in Swansea.
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Researching the history of the area as part of Cân y Cymoedd (When Valleys Sing), a project in nearby Port Talbot, she came across the story of Isabel Thomas, a 14-year-old girl in the 1940s who left school and lied about her age to work in a tin plate works to support her family.
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Originally published at www.theguardian.com.
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Community groups and schools work with Wales’s folk arts organisation to set stories of the area’s people to musicGrowing up in Wales, Liz Puleston-Jones was familiar with the country’s rich heritage of storytelling and traditional music, but none of it ever seemed to have much of a connection to her life in Swansea.Researching the history of the area as part of Cân y Cymoedd (When Valleys Sing), a project in nearby Port Talbot, she came across the story of Isabel Thomas, a 14-year-old girl in
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