Eighties rock legend John Parr is set to appear at Wrexham Library.
John Parr, known for hits featured in films such as St. Elmo’s Fire, Three Men and a Baby, and The Running Man, will be at the library on August 5 at 6pm.
He has crafted a short film and score based on the life of Welsh-language poet Hedd Wyn.
Hedd Wyn, born Ellis Humphrey Evans, was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele during the First World War.
He was posthumously awarded the bard’s chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod, and the chairing ceremony saw the empty chair draped in black, later delivered to Evans’s parents.
The 1917 National Eisteddfod is now referred to as Eisteddfod y Gadair Ddu (The Eisteddfod of the Black Chair).
The event is free and will be conducted in English.
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Library-goers can register their place by phoning the library.
For those attending the National Eisteddfod and wanting to engage in the fringe events during that week, a free shuttle bus service will be operational between the Eisteddfod and Wrexham General train station.
The service will run all day, every day, throughout the Eisteddfod week.
