Home-grown Mark Evans - the Denbigh sheep farmer's son - and Fron Choir - which was originally formed to compete in the very first Llangollen International Music Eisteddfod in 1947 - are taking part in a first for this year's world music festival.
And that's a new concert, the Opening Gala featuring, among others, Faryl Smith, the 13-year-old who shot to fame on ITV's Britain's Got Talent.
There's no word in the eisteddfod press literature as to whether Welsh speaker Mark has performed at Llan previously, unlike Faryl who won first prize for her vocal solo in the 10-15 age group three years ago.
Says Faryl: "I'm really looking forward to going back to Llangollen. I have great memories of competing at the eisteddfod, it was my first taste of performing on an international stage."
This week's confirmation that Air Products' factory is to close at Acrefair with the loss of 200 jobs, will add yet more people to the growing jobs queue in the region during the credit crunch.
We've been keeping a tally by bookmarking such stories on http://delicious.com.
[Tags: jobs - credit crunch]
Just read some of the stories and you'll see just how many jobs has been lost - the list goes on - and on.
Now these latest jobs cuts have prompted Wrexham Council leader Aled Roberts to say rising unemployment in north east Wales needs to be "urgently addressed".
He said: "Wrexham has been heavily reliant on manufacturing, more so than almost any area of the UK and the figures are giving rise to concern. Here in north east Wales we've always been referred to as the 'powerhouse' and left to get on with it, but there are now serious issues that need to be addressed urgently."
[Is that even possible?]
You may have heard about the debate to 'make Wrexham more Welsh'.
But did you hear the one about complaints that a Welsh choir's concert had too much Welsh?!
Meanwhile, there's a 'meeting to hear Polish concerns' in Corwen tonight - not that police are aware of any problems but they want the Polish community to know there is support if they feel they need it.
This all serves to prove the expression you can't please everyone...
| 09:15 UK time, Monday, 6 July 2009
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