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Choir Sings at Monmouth Gymanfa Ganu
For the third consecutive year, Caldicot Male Voice Choir’s Assistant Musical Director Shirley Anne James, was invited to conduct the Annual Gymanfa Ganu at the beautiful Monmouth Methodist Church as part of the Monmouth Festival on Thursday 1st August. Shirley Anne has been conducting Gymanfaoedd Canu and singing festivals since her early twenties, beginning in…
Read MoreChoir Sings for King of the Zulu Nation
Caldicot Male Voice Choir has a long connection with Royalty having sung before Queen Elizabeth II, The Duchess of York and recently the Prince of Wales. However, perhaps its most unusual connection to date was to be privileged to be invited to sing before King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, King of the Zulu Nation at a…
Read MoreCHOIR HALL PAYS HOST TO INDIAN PRE WEDDING
Caldicot Choir Hall paid host to one of its most unusual events on Saturday 20th July, namely the pre-wedding Indian Sangeet ceremony of Kiran Pabla and Dee Jay Bains. Kiran is the daughter of Charanjit Pabla and Uma Pabla from Rogiet. Dee Jay hails from Coventry and the couple were introduced via the Internet about…
Read MoreAnother Birthday Celebratory Cake
It’s become something of a tradition that if there is a special event in the Choir, Choir photographer, Colleen Gauntlett will on special request make a celebratory cake as a treat for appreciative choristers on a practice night. In recent months cakes have been made to celebrate the thirty years service by Sian Hatton to…
Read MoreFabulous Concert in Aid of Sepsis UK Trust
Caldicot Male Voice Choir is proud of its heritage of raising funds for charity and good causes and Saturday 6th July at Caldicot Choir Hall saw a new dimension in its efforts to raise funds for its adopted charity, The Sepsis UK Trust (Wales) this year. The event raised about £1800 for the charity which…
Read MoreChoir enjoys June Krakow Tour
About 40 choristers from Caldicot Male Voice Choir, the music team of Sian Hatton, Shirley Anne James, Stephen Berry and John Nicholson and another 40 supporters left the choir hall to undertake a five day tour of the wonderful Polish city, Krakow on June 6th 2019. On the first day, during glorious weather the choir…
Read MoreChoir honoured to sing at Vice President Funeral
On 14th May 2019 at St Mary’s Church, Magor, the Choir was saddened but honoured and privileged to be invited to sing at the funeral of long standing Vice President Olive Evans MBE. Olive had been a stalwart in the Monmouthshire community, devoting her life to service not only as a school teacher and deputy…
Read MoreChoir Visited by Icelandic Choir
Sunday evening 28th April saw fabulous entertainment at the packed Caldicot Choir Hall when Caldicot Male Voice Choir paid host to visiting Choir ‘Karlakor Eyjafjardar’ from northern Iceland. The Icelanders had already performed at St John’s Church in Cardiff, visited Swansea and the Gower coast and watched Cardiff Blues play the Ospreys at the Principality…
Read MoreShirley Anne Presents a Celebratory Cake to the Choir
Normally Caldicot Male Voice Choir gives out presentations and accolades to well deserving choristers, supporters and guest artistes but on April 29th something different and special occurred. Assistant Musical Director for the past 17 years, Shirley Anne James decided that to mark her 60th birthday she would present the choir with a specially commissioned cake…
Read MorePresentations Made to Two Outstanding Choristers
Photographs by Colleen Gauntlett At Caldicot Male Voice Choir’s Annual Concert on Saturday 6th April, following a wonderful performance by both the choir and its Guest Artiste, Rhydian Jenkins, two presentations were made to well deserving, outstanding choristers. The first presentation was to long standing chorister Mervyn Roberts (who is approaching forty years service) of…
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