Top tenor Granville Sherborne Sadly Passes Away

The Choir was saddened to learn of the passing of one of Caldicot Male Voice Choir’s longest standing top tenors, chorister Granville Sherborne on 20th December. Until his retirement from the Choir two years ago, Granville had been a stalwart and loyal chorister for about forty years and this news will be heart breaking for…

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Choir Hall visited by local Member of Parliament

Caldicot Male Voice Choir is supporting the Caldicot Food Bank by providing the Choir Hall in Mill Lane as a warehouse and distribution centre. This valuable service, providing hundreds of food parcels and Christmas Gifts to the local community in these difficult times was visited on 11th December by Newport East Member of Parliament Jessica…

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Huge Progress on Choir Hall Extension

After intensive work by volunteers and others the extension is nearing completion. The roof is on, tiled and insulated. Ceilings have been installed and plastered by choristers Paul Thomas and Gary Smith and it’s just waiting for electrics to be installed, painting to be done and the frames and doors to be installed.Following an appeal…

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Choir receives generous donation from local company

In the past month there has been a tremendous amount of work done to the extension of Caldicot Choir Hall such that the building is now waterproof and is waiting for delivery of the tiles. None of this would have been possible without the almost non-stop work of chorister Leon Jones who has not only…

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Rogiet War Memorial Vandalised Yet Again

In October 2018 Caldicot Male Voice Choir was honoured and privileged to be invited to sing ‘Mansions of the Lord’ at the inauguration and dedication of the new War Memorial in Rogiet Recreational field. The Choir was conducted by Shirley Anne James and accompanied by John Nicholson. The service of dedication was conducted by Rev.…

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Fabulous support for Hall Extension Build

Fabulous support from the Grassroots section of the South Wales Argus again to print another article about Caldicot Male Voice Choir this week. The photos were taken by Vice-chairman Leon Jones, who is managing the extension project, spending many hours overseeing the building work and carrying out much of the work himself. They show the…

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Scaffolding erected on extension build

Thanks to Matthew Hooper and Ben Olerenshaw for their generous offer to supply materials and erect scaffolding to allow work on the extension of Caldicot Choir Hall to continue. HLM Scaffolding are one of sponsors of the Caldicot Male Voice Choir during the extension build. Great work in the pouring rain this weekend. Much appreciated.…

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Birdie Boys in the paper again

My report of the Golf Day at Llanwern Golf Club to raise funds for the Wales Air Ambulance was published in Grassroots section of the South Wales Argus yesterday. Over £400 was raised on the day. Well done all the ‘Birdie Boys’ of Caldicot Male Voice Choir. The photos show choristers Maurice Penny, Robert Stallard,…

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Bill Nash shows off his D M Davies Award with his family

Because of Corona Virus restrictions it wasn’t possible to present the D M Davis Choir of Jackson, Ohio USA awards made to our oldest chorister, 97 year old Bill Nash with Caldicot Male Voice Choir present. These awards were sent to Bill in Bristol and Lyn asked if photographs could be taken with his family.…

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Crownhill Topsoil donates material for Choir Hall extension build

The new extension at the Caldicot Choir Hall is now underway and is thankful to Griffiths Civil Construction for starting it off by digging out the foundation trench and filling it with concrete. As soon as they have the resources the firm will build the blockwork up to DPC level and lay the base flooring,…

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