CINDY ROSER
2005 North American Festival of Wales, Eisteddfod competition
1st Prize winner for storytelling
and
1st Prize winner for poetry recitation

Cindy holds a degree in theater, has appeared in dinner theater, film and radio from Washington, DC to Munich, Germany, directed community theater productions and taught acting classes for children.  Her storytelling has been written about in area newspapers.  She has been a storyteller at the Welsh Festivals in Philadelphia and in the DC/Northern Virginia/Fredericksburg area for many years.  She has performed at numerous churches and schools in the Stafford/Fredericksburg area, has performed at Border's Book Store and has made several storytelling appearances on the children's TV program "TV and Me". She is past President of the Fredericksburg Welsh Society.

Sian learned Welsh dances at Welsh Folk Dance Society workshops in Wales from 1984 to 1991, and in 1988 earned the Society's Instructor's Certificate, Part 1.  From 1986 to 1992 Sian led her group Dawnswyr y Tract Cymreig (The Welsh Tract Dancers), based in Newark, DE, and for six months in 1991 she was a member of Dawnswyr Mon display team in Anglesey, Wales.  A translator by profession, Sian speaks Welsh and offers her services to family historians.  She sings with Cor Cymraeg Rehoboth (Rehoboth Welsh Choir) in Delta, PA and the 100-voice Cor Cymry Gogledd America (North American Welsh Choir).