Robin Huw Bowen

[3] Born into the Welsh community in Liverpool, England, into a family originally from Anglesey, Bowen learned to play the Celtic Harp while at school, inspired by the Breton harper, Alan Stivell.

They had learned to play the instrument from Nansi Richards, one of the last traditional Welsh folk harpists from the previous generation.

Robin Huw Bowen worked for many years at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.

His research has also drawn on living sources, in particular the harpist Eldra Jarman (1917–2000), a great-granddaughter of John Roberts (Telynor Cymru) [cy].

[4] In 2015, Bowen was allegedly banned from a branch of HSBC in Aberystwyth, a largely Welsh-speaking area, for complaining that the bank gave precedence to the English language in its signage.