[{"text_idx": "#000003", "text": "hyrwyddo a dathlu cerddoriaeth Cymru"}, {"text_idx": "#000004", "text": "promoting and celebrating the music of Wales"}, {"text_idx": "#000015", "text": "The Mare's Tale is a spoken narrative set to music. The text is a specially commissioned lyrical drama from Damian Walford Davies inspired by the series of drawings of the same title by Clive Hicks-Jenkins."}, {"text_idx": "#000016", "text": "The drama centres around an ancient Welsh midwinter wassailing tradition, the Mari Lwyd, or Grey Mare. Essentially a puppet figure composed of a horse\u2019s skull with ribbons and bells and draped in a sheet, the Mari turned out with groups of night-time mummers at the turn of the year requesting entrance to homes through the medium of song."}]