Fabulous Joint Concert with St Edmundsbury Male Voice Choir
Caldicot Male Voice Choir was delighted to welcome St Edmundsbury Male Voice Choir to its Choir Hall on Sunday 17th May for a joint concert. This was the final concert of St Edmundsbury’s short tour of South Wales which included singing with Brecon Male Choir in Brecon Cathedral and with Mynyddislwyn Male Choir in Blackwood.…
Choir Celebrates 150 Years of Tredegar Methodist Church
On Saturday 9th May the Choir was pleased to travel to the little Tredegar Methodist Church to celebrate and recognize the 150 years since the Chapel opened on Vale Terrace. In very warm conditions the Choir conducted by Sian Hatton and Shirley Anne James thrilled the enthusiastic audience by opening with the rousing Welsh Hymn,…
Incredible concert with Chepstow and Usk Singing Club to raise funds for SARA
On Saturday 25th April Caldicot Male Voice Choir joined with the fabulous Usk and Chepstow Singing Club to perform a concert at St Mary’s Priory, Chepstow to raise funds for SARA, The Severn Area Rescue Association which, as explained by compere Richard Newhouse, carries out sea and land rescues and searches throughout the Severn Estuary.…
Incredible Annual Concert This Year
Those who were there were fortunate to have witnessed an amazing Annual concert by Caldicot Male Voice Choir and supporting artiste Emilie Parry-Williams at its choir hall on April 11th. With items conducted by Siȃn Hatton and Shirley Anne James and accompanied perfectly throughout on piano by Olivia Dance, the choir delighted the audience by…
Amazing Joint Concert at St. Paul’s Pontyclun
On March 27th Caldicot Male Voice Choir on a freezing night, made the journey to St Paul’s Church in Pontyclun to join in a unique concert with the Cantorion Pontyclun Ladies Choir. The Choirs, together with guest artiste soprano Eve Sophia Carey performed to a full house to raise funds in support of local charities.…
Sad loss of Dai Gould, serving chorister of 57 years
It was with great shock and sadness that Caldicot Male Voice Choristers received the news from Musical Director Siȃn Hatton that her husband, long serving Baritone chorister of 57 years, David Gould (Dai) had lost his year-long brave fight against cancer and sadly passed away peacefully on Friday 20th March. There are no adequate words…
New Chorister Chris Receives Certificate and Choir tie
Caldicot Male Voice Choir, like all other choirs is always keen to welcome new members and on March 23rd Chairman Leon Jones and Assistant Musical Director Shirley Anne James were pleased to present new baritone chorister Chris Arnill with a certificate marking his achievement on passing his second voice test and a choir tie as…
Magnificent Donation to Alzheimer’s Cymru
Caldicot Male Voice Choir’s associated golf and cycle club supported dementia charity Alzheimer’s Society Cymru during 2025, and on 5th February 2026 was pleased to present a cheque to Alzheimer’s Society Cymru with a promotional cheque for £5072 at the Choir Hall in Caldicot. Events included a year-long cycling, running and walking challenge with 34…
Choir Makes Annual visit to Cherry Tree Care Home
Caldicot Male Voice Choir finalised its Christmas celebrations by foregoing its Thursday practice and instead making its annual visit to the Cherry Tree Care Home in Caldicot. Conducted by Sian Hatton and Shirley Anne James and accompanied on piano by Olivia Dance, the choir sang a wide variety of Christmas songs and carols. An additional…
Enterprise Mobility TM makes huge contribution to the Choir
The Caldicot Male Voice Choir is extremely grateful to Enterprise MobilityTM for its incredible donation of £4000 in December this year. This valuable contribution will help support the choir in providing concerts and other events to help local and national charities and also further its aims of promoting the traditional culture of Welsh male choral…
Choir shares joint concert with Beaufort Male Choir
On 15th November the Choir Hall in Caldicot laid witness to an incredible joint concert of Caldicot Male Voice Choir and invited choir, the fabulous Beaufort Male Choir. Conducted by Siȃn Hatton and accompanied by Olivia Dance and John Nicholson, Caldicot thrilled the audience by opening with Bohemian Rhapsody to mark the 50th Anniversary of…
Choir sings carols for diners at the Two Rivers Hotel, Chepstow
Caldicot Male Voice Choir continued its Christmas celebrations by singing a wide variety of Christmas songs and carols to the patrons of the Two Rivers Hotel, Chepstow on Sunday 14th December, conducted by Sian Hatton and accompanied on piano by Olivia Dance. An additional tinkling bell was provided on tambourine by fellow accompanist John Nicholson,…
Choir entertains travellers at Magor Services with Christmas Carols
Following on from its Christmas events at St Pierre Golf Club and resort and at Underwood village centre the week end before, Caldicot Male Voice Choir continued its Christmas celebrations by entertaining the travellers stopping off for refreshments and relief from the pouring rain at the M4 Magor Services on the afternoon of 7th December.…
Magnificent Personal Donation to the Choir
Following an appeal by Chairman Leon Jones to the choristers to enquire through contacts, friends, businesses and the local community whether any could support the choir by sponsorship or by donation. Many supporters in the past have contributed significant amounts to help the choir in its role of supporting other charities and keeping alive the…
Choir Welcomes New President John Nicholson
Following the retirement of Richard Evans who served many years as President with distinction since 1992 with a 3 year break from 2015, the Choir was delighted that John Nicholson accepted the honour on 10th of October to take up the role at a short presentation and welcome by Choir Chairman Leon Jones and Musical…
Choir Honoured to Sing at Remembrance Service
Caldicot Male Voice Choir was honoured to be invited by the Caldicot and District branch of the Royal British Legion and the Town Council to attend the Sundown Remembrance Service at the Caldicot Memorial Cross at 4pm on Sunday 9th November. Despite the pouring rain throughout, the service was attended by stalwart members of the…
Founder Chorister George Celebrates 100th Birthday
On the 31st October a contingent of Caldicot Male Voice Choir choristers was pleased to sing Happy Birthday to the last surviving founder member, George Maddocks on the occasion of his 100th birthday celebrations at the Choir Hall in Caldicot. George was among those small group of people who had started work at the giant…
Choir Welcomes two new choristers
The last week of October 2025 saw two presentations at the choir hall to new members who had just passed their second voice test to become full members of Caldicot Male Voice Choir. The first was to baritone Csaba Hahn who passed his test by singing ‘Safwn yn y Bwlch’ to Shirley Anne James remarkably…
Choir Elects New Chairman at AGM
At the end of the Annual General Meeting of Caldicot Male Voice Choir on 20th October 2025 the current holder of the committee chair, Graham (Spike) Hughes stepped down and handed the position to the choir’s newly elected chair Leon Jones. Graham joined the choir in 2011 following a chance meeting with choristers at the…
Choir Hall gets rebuilt new bar
Over the past few years significant and necessary improvements and renovations have been made to Caldicot Choir Hall and several choristers have put in many hours of hard work to complete the upgrades, particularly to the roof and doors. There has also been major interior decorating work recently to update the original colours of 1996…