{{Short description|Welsh-language activist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|Bevan addresses the crowd before his sentence in August 2012. '''Gareth Jamie Bevan''' is a Welsh language campaigner and a member of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/08/23/gareth-jamie-bevan-s4c-protest_n_934014.html|title=Gareth Jamie Bevan, Man Who Trashed Conservative MP's Office Over S4C, Jailed |publisher=Huffington Post|date=23 August 2011}}</ref> Bevan refused to pay fines and costs to Merthyr Tydfil Magistrate's Court for breaking into Conservative Party offices in north Cardiff the day before a visit from David Cameron in a demonstration against cuts to S4C.
Bevan was sentenced to 35 days in prison by Merthyr Tydfil magistrates in 2012. He said that he was using the case to draw attention to the lack of Welsh language correspondence from the courts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.golwg360.com/newyddion/cymru/82480-jamie-bevan-35-diwrnod-o-garchar|title=Jamie Bevan: 35 diwrnod o garchar |publisher=Golwg360|date=13 August 2012}}</ref>
He had complained three times about monolingual English correspondence from the courts service but later received a court summons in English only.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cymdeithas.org/2012/08/13/carchar_am_35_diwrnod_i_jamie_bevan.html|title=Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg website; accessed 23/08/2012|access-date=23 August 2012|archive-date=23 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120823150849/http://cymdeithas.org/2012/08/13/carchar_am_35_diwrnod_i_jamie_bevan.html|url-status=usurped}}</ref>
==Music== Bevan is also a Welsh folk singer-songwriter, performing solo and with bands ''Y Betti Galws''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radiocymru/c2/safle/sesiynau/cynnwys/betti_galws.shtml|title=BBC Cymru - C2 - Sesiynau - Y Betti Galws|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> and ''Jamie Bevan a’r Gweddillion''.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=http://cymdeithas.org/steddfod|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108134906/http://cymdeithas.org/steddfod|url-status=usurped|archive-date=8 January 2014|title=Cymdeithas yr Iaith yn Steddfod Meifod 2015 | Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00stjvr/features/gigs-c2 |title=BBC Radio Cymru - C2 - Gigs C2 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130802011243/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00stjvr/features/gigs-c2 |archive-date=2013-08-02}}</ref> He has performed alongside Welsh language folk stalwarts Meic Stevens<ref name="auto1"/> and Dafydd Iwan<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dafyddiwan.com/cymraeg/newyddion.html|title = Dafydd Iwan}}</ref> and his music has been played on BBC Radio Wales,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03mk7bw|title = BBC Radio Wales - Celtic Heartbeat, 29/12/2013}}</ref> Radio Cymru and S4C. He has performed live at the National Eisteddfod of Wales<ref name="auto"/> and at Welsh language, republican<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cbrd.btck.co.uk/Links|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109015026/http://cbrd.btck.co.uk/Links|url-status=usurped|archive-date=9 January 2014|title = Community Website Builder}}</ref> and other political benefit gigs, together with regular appearances at Red Poets events alongside poet Mike Jenkins and others.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mikejenkins.net/1/post/2013/09/red-poets-launch.html|title='RED POETS' LAUNCH|website=Mike Jenkins - Welsh Poet & Author|access-date=8 January 2014|archive-date=13 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413073310/http://www.mikejenkins.net/1/post/2013/09/red-poets-launch.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Discography== *Y Betti Galws - Self-titled, (2009) CD.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cymdeithas.org/nwyddau/y-betti-galws-cd|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108132502/http://cymdeithas.org/nwyddau/y-betti-galws-cd|url-status=usurped|archive-date=8 January 2014|title = Hafan | Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg}}</ref> *Jamie Bevan a’r Gweddillion - Torri'r Cerffiw, (2011) CD<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.whatsonwales.co.uk/c/13/i/22291/ |title=CD launch: Jamie Bevan a'r Gweddillion {{!}} Events |website=www.whatsonwales.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108132345/http://www.whatsonwales.co.uk/c/13/i/22291/ |archive-date=2014-01-08}}</ref> *Jamie Bevan a’r Gweddillion - Ei Fab aeth o'i Flaen (Sain), (2012) Download.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sainwales.com/store/sain/trf-ll458|title=Jamie Bevan a'r Gweddillion - Ei Fab aeth o'i Flaen - Music - Sain Records - Music from Wales|website=sainwales.com|access-date=19 October 2022|archive-date=22 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022062525/https://sainwales.com/store/sain/trf-ll458|url-status=dead}}</ref> *Jamie Bevan a’r Gweddillion - Bach Yn Ryff, (2013) CD.<ref name="auto"/>
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