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This will be a big event. We will sing three songs with the band and then join the Welsh Guards in a melody called 'Arms Park' which is songs such as Sospan Fach and Calon Lan. Then we will sing the Welsh Guards Hymn 'Now the Day is Over' and 'God Bless the Prince of Wales'. The 'Last Post' will be played then we end up with the Welsh Anthem.

A cappella day was Saturday 19 June when the choir cut its first seven tracks for the new CD. There is another recording day scheduled later this month to complete the work and the CD will be released in the Autumn.

What was a smooth and productive morning turned, as did the wind direction, into a difficult afternoon session with Jumbo jets no more that 200m above heading into Heathrow airport. The skilful and patient singing marathon was completed without any aircraft disturbance on track.

Thomas Beetham, the recording engineer, said “I am pleased with the initial recording despite the afternoon. The choir produced a good sound.”

London Welsh Rugby Club Choir - Time Travellers

it's not only fictional time-lords who can wander back over the centuries, you just have to be a member of the London Welsh Rugby Club Choir!

The weekend of April 17th saw the choir travel back to the 12th century when it gave a beautifully controlled concert in the wonderful Wimborne Minster, Dorset. The greater part of the Church, as we know it today, was built by the Normans between 1120 and 1180, to support that college of secular canons and it resounded to the choir's performance to raise funds for the local hospital and rugby club.

A week later the choir had again gone through a time warp, this time to the age of Henry Tudor when it appeared at Carew Manor in Sutton. The choir were invited by the local Round Table to sing for the school which now uses the Manor and which caters for pupils with moderate learning difficulties.

Another packed audience responded to the choir's repertoire with promising young Welsh soprano and Eisteddfod winner Menna Cazel Davies providing the solo sections at both venues.

Carew Manor is situated in the old Manor House at the side of St Mary's Church in Beddington Park, the major attractions being the magnificent Tudor Hall with its wonderful hammer-beam roof, erected about 1470. These roofs were quite widely used in the late mediaeval and Tudor periods and luckily this one was strong enough to withstand the great amens, operatic choruses and Welsh songs of the London Welsh Rugby Club Choir.

"Sunshine brings out the best in choir", says Joe Jones

Spain's Costa del Sol was the setting for the latest tour of the London Welsh Rugby Club Choir and it certainly lived up to its name as a week of brilliant sunshine and cloudless skies greeted the choir on their first full concert tour since New Zealand in 2005.
The choir, with musical director Michael Wyn Jones and Christopher Duckett on piano, gave three concerts during the week, raising many thousands of euros for CUDECA, the first hospice to be built in the region
The first performance was at the concert theatre in Alhaurin, a complex sited inland from the capital Malaga where the choir was joined by tenor soloist Stephen Lloyd Morgan who hailed originally from the Rhondda Valley.
The second concert saw the choir travel to the beautiful seaside resort of Nerja with it's narrow streets and 'Balcony of Europe' overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. A full concert hall was treated to a varied repertoire with solo spots from two choir stalwarts, Ted Sellick and Geraint Lewis while Choir President John Dawes, who had travelled with the choir to Spain, addressed the audience.
The last concert was at the stunning resort of Kempinski in Estepona, where another packed audience had turned up to hear the choir. Stephen Lloyd Morgan was again the soloist for the night. Also present at this concert was the founder of the CUDECA Hospice.
This was not the final performance of the choir however as they had been asked to be the Welsh representatives in the 'Great Britain Festival', a showcase promoting British goods on the Costa del Sol, singing in the Miramar complex in Fuengirola.
Altogether a wonderful tour with social trips to Gibraltar and the beautiful hillside town of Ronda rounding of a great week for the choir.

The Seven Amigos

Ted Sellick	David Williams	Geraint Lewis	Mike Hoile	Paul Bunford	Pat Barnett	Nick Withers

In addition to their choir duties, the Seven Amigos were prominent as extra choir entertainment that delighted the audiences. Altogether a wonderful tour with social trips to Gibraltar and the beautiful hillside town of Ronda rounding of a great week for the choir.

 

Joan Hunt

Joan HUNT O.B.E who through her work in founding and with the help of people such as Maurice Boland, raising funds for the the Costa del Sol Hospice CUDECA was elected European Woman of the Year. Joan hunt was awarded the O.B.E. this year.

 

The Kempinski Hotel Estepona Andalusia was the setting for the last concert on the recent Tour of Southern Spain. In the middle of the front row is Joan HUNT O.B.E who through her work in founding and with the help of people such as Maurice Boland, raising funds for the the Costa del Sol Hospice CUDECA was elected European Woman of the Year. Joan hunt was awarded the O.B.E. this year. Congratulations to Joan and to Maurice Boland in the white jacket who always answers her call for more funds.