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Choir Cycle Club Web-site Created
Following on from the recently arranged bike rides and the highly succesful Taff Trail sponsored ride by members and friends of the choir, organiser and chorister Tony Griffiths has created a new web site which will specialise on the Choir’s newly formed Cycle Club. This promising site will focus on past and forthcoming Choir cycle…
Read MoreChoir Collects for Chernobyl Victims
Press Release Many of you will remember the visit made by six Belarus children and their interpreter, Hannah on July 9th this year, Their bravery and spirit in the face of severe illness and disability brought about by the Chernobyl disaster in nearby Ukraine in 1988 so inspired the choir that they were moved to…
Read MoreChoir Hall laid out for Blood Donors
This web-site has recently featured some of the maintenance work that has gone on recently; from repainting, cleaning guttering, cleaning and polishing, replacing doors and lighting and not least the monumental job of stripping and polishing the floor. Keeping our Hall in peak condition makes it not only a wonderful place to sing, practice and socialise, but it also…
Read MoreChoristers Reflect on Polished Performance
With expertise, equipment and chemicals supplied by 2nd Tenor Mike Thurman the group of Mike, baritones Dai Kirton, Theo Roberts, Leon Jones and bass chorister Dave Scott worked like Trojans over the 3 days of the Bank Holiday weekend to move all the tables, chairs, piano and staging out of the hall. They chemically stripped…
Read MoreTaff Trail Story Told
I’ve included a lot more photos of our Taff Trail riders and supporters. Many are taken from video footage so the size and quality may be poorer, but nevertheless they’re worth showing (I hope). The preparation of a commemorative DVD is underway and should be available next week. It’s worth reiterating that this was…
Read MoreSponsors Support Choir Cyclists
Many thanks are due to all the supporters who gave up their time and expense to back up the Sponsored Taff Trail Bike Ride. Not least among these are the local businesses that provided food, drinks and accessories to help the choir meet its targets. Without them our task to complete the Taff Trail would…
Read MoreIntrepid Choristers Triumph on Taff Trail
Press Release The wheels of twenty seven bikes went round and round as choristers and other supporters pedalled the 55 miles of the Taff Trail from Brecon Canal Basin to Cardiff Bay where they came to rest some 7 hours later, exhausted, but triumphant at the Millenium Centre. Early in the morning of 19th August at…
Read MoreBirdie Boys Tee Off at St Pierre
Côr Meibion Caldicot Birdie Boys Sunday 5th August 2012 St Pierre – Mathern Course 19 players – first tee off at 11.20 am It rained continually for almost two hours before the sun came out to dry us all off on the back nine holes. Although some of the regular Birdie Boys were unable…
Read MoreGala Concert Extravaganza 2012
It’s that time of year again when we welcome a special guest choir to Caldicot to perform with us at the Gala Concert. This year we are proud, fortunate and pleased to welcome Bridgend Male Choir as our guests. Formed in 1960, originally as Bridgend Police Choir, Côr Meibion Pen-y-Bont, like ourselves has won many…
Read MoreChoristers Work on Hall
Our choir is extremely fortunate to have one of the best purpose built Choir Halls in the country as a result of considerable effort by members in the 1990’s. This has meant that the choir is able to contribute in a much larger way to the local community and has provided a fabulous legacy with which…
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