Home and away
Performance is
the raison d'etre of the choir and whether is be home or away the joy
of meeting and making new friends adds to the pleasure of making music.
Music is a powerful emotional trigger providing direct contact with the
audience and is an ideal way to develop a greater understanding of peoples
and culture through music. You could
deepen your
creative leisure time and really discover the joy of singing!
Tours undertaken and future plans
Te Papa Museum Wellington New Zealand
Hong Kong and New Zealand 2005
This
unique male choir with its long name was founded by a small group of jolly
gentlemen with a passion for songs, sitting at the bar of The London
Welsh Rugby Football Club in Richmond, London.
The 40-strong choir has a wide age range,
from mid-twenties to those called seniors. Founded in 2003, the London
Welsh Rugby Club Choir was initially formed to promote the name of the
London Welsh Rugby Club
to a broader audience and to visit New Zealand at the same time as the
British and Irish Lions on their 2005 tour. Such was the success of the
choir in New Zealand that, instead of performing at small rugby clubs as
originally planned, much bigger venues were organised. The choir
found itself playing to packed audiences at Christchurch Town Hall,
Wellington Cathedral and the Te Papa Museum, not to mention recording two
songs for the New Zealand edition of "Top of the Pops".
Andalucia Spain 2009
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 accompanist
Christopher Duckett, 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.
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.
The last concert was at the stunning resort of Kempinski in Estepona, where
another packed audience had turned up to hear the choir. 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.
The Seven Amigos
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| 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.