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Cause for Celebration!
Chorister Bill Nash rarely misses a practice, travelling from Bristol twice a week to be with us, but tonight, Thursday 9th January he was badly missed. Why? He was celebrating his 91st birthday so he had a pretty good excuse. Bill has been a male voice chorister for over 50 years, starting in the tenors…
Read MoreChoir Welcomes in the New Year 2014
Photos and You-tube video by Lyn. Left click on the images to enlarge. On January 31st 2013 a packed house of about 160 members of the choir including guests and friends got together at the Choir Hall to see out the Choir’s 50th Anniversary Year and to look forward to welcoming the New Year…
Read MoreMemories of a Visit from the Past
A few months ago, I was e-mailed through the web-site by a lady named Judith Le Maire from Germany who asked for a copy of ‘Voices of Severnside’ recorded in 1978. During the choirs’ tour to Waghausel, she was given the LP by Owen and Bernice Howells with whom she stayed in 1979 on school…
Read MoreChoristers Continue Christmas Carolling at the Haywain
Photos taken by Amy Jones. Left click on images to enlarge. After last week singing at the Castle Inn and the cutting of the Christmas Cake at the Choir Hall, Côr Meibion Caldicot Choristers completed their Christmas celebrations as a choir by entertaining the local community at a packed Haywain pub after practice…
Read MoreCraving Choristers Collectively Consume Colleen’s Creative Christmas Cake!!!
Not only does Colleen Gauntlett often take photographs of the choir during its concerts and other activities for the web site and newspapers, it’s become the custom for her to try out her celebration cake designs on the choristers (who can forget the cake displays made for the 50th Anniversary) and on Monday 16th…
Read MoreCarolling Choristers at the Castle Inn
On Thursday 11th December after practice, the choir made its way up Church Road on a rainy, blustery night to begin its round of seasonal festivities at the bar of the Castle Inn near the picturesque Caldicot Castle. Crowded into the lounge, the choir entertained the locals at this historic hostelry with a rousing…
Read MoreA Sad Loss of Allen Griffiths
The choristers and Musical team were deeply saddened last night to hear of the sudden death, after collapsing at his home earlier this week, of Allen Griffiths. Allen was a regular non-singing attendee of practice nights to support his son, baritone Tony Griffiths and would also be seen helping out at fund raising events and…
Read MoreChoir Welcomed Back To Wiltshire Wool Town
Seventeen months ago, Caldicot Male Voice Choir coalesced with the Bradford-on-Avon Freemasons in collectively facilitating a fruitful and productive ‘sell out’ concert, at the town’s majestic Holy Trinity Church. Such was the success of that evening, in July 2012; that the choir was invited back to Wiltshire by the Freemasons, for a reprise of…
Read MoreChoir Serenade For St. David’s Foundation
On Friday, 15th November, as autumn finally surrendered to winter; Caldicot Male Voice Choir performed the first of a brace of official November concerts before the Christmas celebrations close the curtain on 2013. In milky moonlight, blazers buttoned against the evening chill; the choristers alighted a warm bus to navigate a meandering lane to…
Read MoreNumbers on the increase !
All 70 choristers who were at practice last night gave a rousing warm welcome to another two new members, Garry Veale falls into the ranks of the top tenors and Lee Rees joins the 2nd tenors. Garry is a former school mate of Leon Jones, is a member of Côr Meibion Caldicot Cycle Club and…
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