The Father of "Y Gymanfa Ganu."

Mr. Daniel Griffiths, who may not appropriately be selected as the representative of congregational singing in the Aberdare Valley, was born in April 1828. He was the son of Evan Griffiths, who kept a grocery store, drapery, ironmongery, and general stores at Ty Mawr, High Street (the house was the occupied by Dr Evan Jones, J.P.) As a lad he attended Carmel Methodist Chapel; and being from his childhood deeply interested in singing, he learnt the rudiments of music at the singing school conducted by then the leader of Carmel, Mr. Abraham James (father of Mr Benjamin James, of London), who will act as conductor of the Singing Festival of the Hirwain District of the Calvinistic Methodists to be held in June 1893.