‘Cancelled’ Welsh hymns about mental illness and addiction to be sung again

Folk singer revives music believed to have been rejected by hymn book committees, after she found recordings in archive

A trove of Welsh hymns believed to have been “cancelled” by all-male committees because they did not like their open approach to issues such as mental health and addiction has been unearthed and is being performed at 50 chapels across the country.

The Welsh folk singer Lleuwen Steffan was working in a museum archive when she came across recordings of Welsh-language hymns she had never heard before.