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Malad Valley residents invite everyone to the Malad Valley Welsh Festival to celebrate the rich Welsh heritage that has contributed to the quality of life in the settlement of this beautiful valley.
Welsh pioneers were the first to settle in the Malad Valley in the 1860s. One of their many Welsh traditions was an annual cultural arts event called an eisteddfod, with roots going back 900 years.
Eisteddfod was celebrated locally for many years until World War 1. In 2005, after a 90 year break, this annual cultural event, now called the Malad Valley Welsh Festival, once again became a reality.
Today, Malad Valley, Idaho, has the largest per-capita concentration of people of Welsh ancestry outside the country of Wales itself. For that reason, many residents of the Valley enjoy reestablishing their Welsh roots.
2018 Presenters
Presenter – Carla Kelly
Presenter – Carla Kelly
The Is That Was: The Perils, Peculiarities, and Pleasure of Writing Historical Fiction. Using My Loving Vigil Keeping and its sequel, One Step Enough, author Carla Kelly attempts to explain the unexplainable — how a novelist works. Learn more about Carla Kelly
Presenter – Laraine Miner
”Traditional Welsh Dance” will introduce dances the first Welsh settlers in the Malad Valley might have done, with performances by local students and audience members, and accompanied by Idlewild. Learn more about Laraine Miner
Presenter – Lucie Washburn
“Welcome to Wales and the Malad Valley Welsh Festival” will include a brief history of the eisteddfod through the last few hundred years to today—and this year’s festival in Wales in August plus Malad’s inauguration of this tradition of Welsh culture in our western valley. Learn more about Lucie Washburn