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Pontardawe Festival

United Kingdom

Pontardawe Festival is an annual festival of world music and dance which is held every August on the playing fields in Pontardawe, Wales, UK. The festival is run by volunteers on a not-for-profit basis and has been held every year with one …

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Pontardawe Festival is an annual festival of world music and dance which is held every August on the playing fields in Pontardawe, Wales, UK.

01 · What it is
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02 · Where & name
United Kingdom

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03 · How it is doing
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04 · Proof & reuse
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Pontardawe Festival is an annual festival of world music and dance which is held every August on the playing fields in Pontardawe, Wales, UK.

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Pontardawe Festival is an annual festival of world music and dance which is held every August on the playing fields in Pontardawe, 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. 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. Pontardawe got lottery funding in 2006

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Pontardawe Festival is festival in the UK, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 1

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