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Siān Frick is a British national of mainly Welsh parentage. From 1984 to 1991 she attended Cymdeithas Ddawns Werin Cymru (Welsh Folk Dance Society) workshops in Wales to learn the spirited but light-footed Welsh dances, and in 1988 she earned the Cymdeithas Instructors Certificate, Part 1. From 1986 to 1992 Siān led her group Dawnswyr y Tract Cymreig/The Welsh Tract dancers, based in Newark Delaware, and in 1991 she was a member of the Dawnswyr Mōn display team in Anglesey for six months. Siān is frequently invited to teach Welsh folk dance workshops and give clogging demonstrations at many of the Celtic festivals in the mid-Atlantic region. On her regular visits to Wales she has joined Welsh teams performing dances at various events such as the Gwyl Ifan (Midsummer) Festival in Cardiff. In 2009 she was part of a U.S. team from Welsh Heritage Week that competed at the National Eisteddfod in Wales and was judged worthy of performing on the main stage!
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A translator by profession, Siān speaks Welsh and offers her services to family historians. She sings with Cor Cymraeg Rehoboth (Rehoboth Welsh Choir) in Delta Pennsylvania and Chor Cymry Gogledd America (North American Welsh Choir), and performs Welsh folk songs to the accompaniment of the folk harp. Siān is vice president of Welsh Heritage Week, an immersion course in all aspects of Welsh culture, and writes occasionally for the Welsh-American newspaper Ninnau/Y Drych. She is also a certified Royal Scottish Dance Society teacher in the Delaware Valley Branch.
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