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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 11:00 UK time, Monday, 3 July 2006

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Will you be going to this year's 60th anniversary of Llangollen's world music festival, the International Musical Eisteddfod because everyone else is!

If you're not, then there are opportunities online to soak up the atmosphere. Use to watch footage from the performances on stage. Plus, has put together a compliation of highlights and the webmaster is writing his own []

Here, on the Where I Live Wales NE website, you can listen to a poem by Dylan Thomas about the international eisteddfod and look at footage from the 1960s - or let Pavarotti himself tell you about the first year he came to the festival as a young man.

Meanwhile, contributors like Alun Salisbury explain interesting experiences when the overseas performers stay with local families.

And eisteddfod archivist Prof Chris Adams shares some old photos and offers us an insight into the very first first festival.

Are you a fan of the international eisteddfod? We want to hear your stories too.

Oh, by the way, on Saturday we were in Flint to take photos of the proclamation ceremony for the 2007 National Eisteddfod which is to be held in Mold.

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