Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys's family quest in Patagoniapublished Wed, Nov 11 2009 16:05 GMT
Welshman and Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys has been on a quest to trace his family in Patagonia – and he's made it into a filmIn Bala, Wales, in 1882, a farmer named Dafydd Jones challenged his cousin to a race on horseback. Jones rigged the race, giving his cousin his own horse in the knowledge that it would turn for his house rather than reach the finish line. Unfortunately, his cousin fell and was killed. Jones is thought to have escaped the wrath of his family by fleeing to South America. This, in a roundabout way, contributed to the creation of a thriving Welsh community in Patagonia, the development of the understandably obscure genre of Welsh-Argentine pop music – ...
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