Pat teaches the Absolute Beginners workshops. She has proved over the past three years that there is an opening at the festival for this. Over the past years she has taught and encouraged over a dozen new fiddlers to pull the box with strings out of the bubble-wrap.

Aka Dame Patti Smith EPNS, is one of Wales' farthest-travelled musicians. She sings and also plays Anglo concertina, and spoons. Before becoming firmly established on the Welsh music scene.

Pat started playing on the linoleum at an early age. A brief period with seminal band Swansea Jack led to a 25 year career as half of Calennig, recording many albums, and taking traditional Welsh music to the four corners of Llantrisant, and eventually all over the world.

Pat calls and plays with the Calennig Big Band for twmpathau (Welsh ceilidhs). She is a virtuoso on the spoons, and her workshops, both in spoons and Welsh dance, are informative and highly entertaining