2015
Birdie Boys hit the green for charity at St Pierre Golf Resort
Photographs by Lyn Gauntlett. Left click on images to enlarge. The Birdie Boys not only tweet and twitter in the choir, they and their friends play a round of Golf or two to raise funds for Charities. Last Saturday 36 of them came along to the St Pierre Marriott Golf resort near Chepstow…
Read MoreGala Concert a Resounding Success
Photos by Colleen Gauntlett. Left click on images to enlarge Caldicot Male Voice Choir’s Gala Concert on September 5th was extra special this year in that our guest choir was the Oxford Welsh Male Voice Choir who made their way down from the City of Spires via the M4 to be with…
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 MoreNew Chorister John makes Debut at Magor Wedding
Glorious sunny Saturday 15th August saw 58 choristers, Musical Director Siân Hatton and accompanist John Nicholson make the journey to sing at the wedding of Joanne Hunt to John Sabin at midday at St Mary’s Church, Magor. We probably outnumbered the wedding guests but what a fabulous turn out. The choir packed themselves…
Read MoreNew top tenor passes second voice test
It was with great delight that after the break in practice last night, Musical Director Siân mounted the podium to announce to loud cheers that top tenor John Searle had passed his second voice test. John’s membership now swells the ranks of the top tenors to twenty two. The top tenor section is the second largest…
Read MoreChoir Navigates the Exe to Oakford
Photographs by Colleen Gauntlett. Left click on images to enlarge On Saturday August 1st, 54 members of the choir and the musical team endured the slow moving traffic down the M5 to reach Tiverton before driving up the picturesque Exe valley, through narrow lanes to the tiny village of Oakford, nestling in…
Read MoreFour new choristers sing at Oakford Concert
Photograph by Colleen Gauntlett. Left click on the image to enlarge. The Choir is continuing to recruit new members to its ranks and we are pleased to record that in 2013 and 2014 we recruited 24 new members and to date in 2015 another five. In that time a few older members have retired or passed…
Read MoreKen Gibbs
It is with mixed feelings that we sing the beautiful hymn in Welsh, ‘Gwahoddiad’ meaning ‘Invitation’ because so often it is sung in tribute to the passing of a current or retired chorister. Last week was no exception when we learned of the sad death on 21st July, after illness of long standing and…
Read MoreOff to Oakford in Devon
Next Saturday 1st August the Choir is going to St Peter’s Church in Oakford, North Devon near Tiverton for the first time. Please make every effort to come. It’s our first away concert in a while. It is known that there has been a church on the present site since the 15th Century…
Read MoreThree Baritones pass second voice test
It was only a few months ago that 19 year-olds Sam Atkins and Liam Evans walked into the choir hall after hearing us at an afterglow in Chepstow in May and decided to try a bit of choral singing with us. At about the same time Harry Giblin also came in and decided to give it a…
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