A chart-topping quartet helped to launch this year's Llangollen International Music Eisteddfod.

Boy band Blake, who will join recording star Barbara Dickson, bass-baritone Sir Willard White, soprano Natasha Marsh and 4,000 other performers on the bill from July 7-12, attended a launch event in Cardiff.

Musical director Mervyn Cousins said: "The eisteddfod is developing and evolving each year, and we have more and more to offer competitors, visitors, and the local community annually.

"Llangollen is a well-established festival, and for us as organisers, extending the activities on the field on Sunday, July 12 is a natural process."

Photo shows: Blake with Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod executive director Mervyn Cousins at the launch event.

Source: Wrexham Evening Leader

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