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Choir sings in magnificent Oxford Town Hall
Photos by Colleen Gauntlett. Left click on images to enlarge. On Saturday 3rd October, approximately sixty Caldicot choristers made their way down the M4 to the dreamily spired, historic University City of Oxford to perform at the magnificently decorated Oxford Town Hall with Oxford Welsh Male Voice Choir. This is the third…
Read MoreNew Choristers hit Headline Review
Left click on the images to enlarge. A few weeks ago a Gwent choir suggested in a newspaper report that it was recruiting heavily and was now the largest choir in South Wales with 65 members. I think this suggestion was a mis-quote perhaps. Also there are a number of choirs in South Wales who…
Read MoreChoir Cyclists Ride for Charity
Photos by Lyn and Colleen Gauntlett and Leon Jones. Left click on images to enlarge. From the source of the River Severn and steep slopes of Plynlimmon, across the mid Wales hills to Shrewsbury, up hill and down dale through Shropshire including Ironbridge gorge, to Bridgenorth, Stourport-on-Severn to Worcester and Tewkesbury and…
Read MoreKen Gibbs Given Lifetime Achievement Award
Alongside his wife and family, long serving second tenor, chorister Ken Gibbs was thrilled to receive a well deserved Lifetime Achievement Award and elected as an Honorary Vice President on November 27th 2014 at his son’s restaurant, The Woodlands Tavern in Llanfair Discoed on 27th November in front of over 40 choristers who gave him a…
Read MoreChoir Inspires Famous Victory
Saturday, 29th November 2014 WALES 12 SOUTH AFRICA 6 A MILESTONE MOMENT AT THE MAJESTIC MILLENNIUM. Caldicot Male Voice Choir were highly honoured to have been invited to the majestic Millennium stadium, on Saturday 29th November, 2014 to join with choral colleagues from Maesteg a’r Cylch and Penybontmawr, as guest choirs of the Welsh Rugby…
Read MoreChoir returns to Faringdon
On a misty day the Caldicot Male Voice Choir meandered its way through the the rolling pastures of the English countryside for the third time in five years to the ancient 12th century All Saint’s Church in Faringdon, Oxfordshire. On the 20th September , in aid of the Rotary Club of Faringdon and District, the…
Read MoreGala Concert a Resounding Success
Photos by Colleen Gauntlett (Left click on images to enlarge) What an incredible night at Caldicot Leisure Centre on Saturday 6th September! The Choir sang its heart out perfectly, the Mabe Ladies Choir conjoined in wonderful harmony with Caldicot’s performance perfectly and Rebecca John from the BBC’s Wales Today programme compèred the evening…
Read MoreChoir to sing for Wales and South African Rugby Teams
At our Annual Concert this year, Dr Haydn James came along to listen to us. So impressed was he, that it was announced last Monday that on behalf of the Welsh Rugby Union, he invited us to sing, along with two other choirs to the 72,000 crowd before the kick off of the Wales v South Africa…
Read MoreChoir Visited by Belarus Children
Photos by Colleen. Left click on images to enlarge Last year the Choir’s quest was to raise over £6000 to help bring children who are victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1988. Many suffer from illnesses related to the ongoing levels of radiation which devastated this area and has…
Read MoreChoir Entertains Crowds at National Cycling Event
Photos by Colleen Gauntlett Left Click on images to enlarge The Choir has taken on a sporty theme this year and following its recent participation at the opening T20/20 Bash at the Swalec stadium, we were delighted to be the only Male Voice Choir to entertain the crowds at the British National Road Race Cycling…
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