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She served on the panel of adjudicators at
Llangollen with other highly acclaimed musicians from 1978 to 1999. Between 1957 and 1985, Jones was treasurer of the Welsh Folk Song Society. She was made its vice-president in 1985 before becoming its president from 1988 until her death in 2000. Jones was
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three years in a row from 1937 to 1939. Jones won the solo soprano competition in 1949; she had converted "on stage" in the same year and went on to actively participate in several evangelistic campaigns across Europe and the UK. She had won four times at the
National Eisteddfod of Wales. During the
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in founding the
Llangollen International Eisteddfod in 1947. She sang penillion to her own harp accompaniment at the Eisteddfod opening ceremony with workers authored by her husband every year from 1954 to 1981. In 1953, Jones was admitted to the
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on the evening of 4 September. Jones subsequently performed in
Vancouver and Los Angeles later in the year. Between 1955 and 1960, she received instruction in music from David Ewart Parry Williams and took lessons from Jean Bell at the
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Brython" before subsequently changing it to "Ffranses Môn" and played the harp frequently at Gorsedd ceremonies from 1957 on. Between 1964 and 1990, she was the Powys Eisteddfod's official harpist.
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October 1961 letter from Jones to Bryn Tirion in its Maxwell Fraser Papers collection. People's Collection Wales holds a photograph of Jones in its collection and an entry of her is included in the
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Aged 14, Jones she began playing the organ at
Broughton's Pisgah chapel before taking lessons from Alwena Roberts after her Jones' father purchased an erard harp. She won the solo harp competition at the
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Brittany, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Spain. She visited the United States for the first time in 1957. Jones had partook in the 27th Annual Welsh Day Celebration in
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Lutheran Grove in observation of Welsh institutions and traditions. She went on to participate in a programme held at the Calvary Baptist Church in
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in 1983 and received the Sir T. H. Parry-Williams Medal at the
Anglesey National Eisteddfod in 1999. On 8 September 2000, she died and was subsequently buried at Wrexham Crematorium.
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