Losing a loved one during the pandemic was made more painful by not being able to gather with others to remember that wonderful person

So Gwesty Aduniad (Reunion Hotel) was the perfect location for a family from Harlech to get together to celebrate the life of a 70s country-singing star.

Glyn Williams – or Dave Curtis as he was known on stage – passed away a few days after Christmas in 2020.

“We’re incredibly grateful that a normal boy from Talsarnau rose high in the world of entertainment, and walked into a very successful career,” said Elwyn, Glyn’s brother.

After winning the popular talent show New Faces in 1977, Dave Curtis travelled the world with his guitar in hand and released three successful albums.

“The equivalent of that today is winning Britain’s Got Talent or something like that.

“It was massive in the 70s to win that, coming from where he came from,” Lowri said of her Yncl Glyn.

Having entertained audiences and fans all over the world, Dave Curtis spent his final years in Shropshire.

“That’s what’s sad; that a boy who did so much died of that awful illness, Alzheimer’s,” Elwyn said.

“It’s an awful disease, like walking along a path and you can’t turn around to go home.

“I’d been to see him at the home, and I sat with him in the room.

“The staff brought a guitar, and the idea was that I’d spark his memory through playing some of the old songs with him.

“But he held the guitar, and he was looking at the back of it instead of where the strings are, as if he couldn’t understand what on earth was in his hands.”

Neither Elwyn nor Lowri have seen some of the family since the funeral, when Covid-19 restrictions meant that only 30 people could attend, and that the ceremony was only half an hour long.

But in Gwesty Aduniad’s beautiful gardens, there’s a chance for the whole family to be together in one place to pay a worthy tribute to a great man.

“My dad – amazing bloke, very talented, very much loved by anybody and everybody, from family to friends in the music industry, well-respected, he got along with anybody – that’s the sort of person he was,” said Mark, Glyn’s son.

“Today has been great. Hearing my dad’s brother – his speech was amazing.

“Hearing the band doing that Broken Hill song he wrote was very touching for me.”

See how the family celebrate the life of their lost loved one in Gwesty Aduniad on Thursday, 13 January at 9pm on S4C.

English subtitles are available and you can catch up on demand.