From ‘The Libretto’ – July 2011 What a day! it started off with the bus driver having road rage on the M5 when a car cut him up. We then arrived at Broadwindsor in glorious sunshine. Judging by all the top hats and tails and elegant dresses and hats you would think we were at…

From ‘The Libretto’ – July 2011 We do not know how lucky we are having the musical team that we have. While John & Siân were away on a well deserved holiday, Shirley Anne and Steve were left to hold the fort. With a wedding, a concert, a funeral and all the twice weekly practices,…

Coming to the Choir Hall soon – for more details click on images.

From ‘The Libretto’ – July 2011 LOVIN’  IT! Ramblings of a Chorister I was watching the telly the other night and scanning through the Freeview programme guide for a film on channel 4, which I pressed only to discover that Channel 4 is in fact on Channel 8 and what I actually turned on was…

On Saturday, 9th July, the Choir will make another trip to the Exmoor village of Simonsbath for a concert at St. Luke’s church. If the weather is warm and sunny it will be a complete contrast to the winter wonderland, replete with wedding cake landscapes that formed the backdrop for the setting of last year’s concert! …

WEDDING  MARATHON  FOR  CHOIR   Press Release Caldicot Male Voice Choir have just enjoyed the honour of singing at three separate weddings during nine summer days. On 18th June, the Choir was invited to the wedding of Lisa Berry and Lewis Hodge at one of Newport’s ecclesiastical jewels, St. John the Evangelist church in Maindee.…

From ‘The Libretto’ – June 2011   To Tony Griffiths (Baritone) and Richard Evans (Bottom Bass) on passing the final voice test. Richard performed in his first concert on Friday 20th May at Bishton Church. Tony was unable to attend the concert but hopes to be on stage for the next one which is Faringdon…

From ‘The Libretto’ – June 2011 The new website is up and running. Tony and Spike have done a great job getting the new website up and running. It is still in its early days, but the site still looks good. You can add comments to the page, view past history and read fragments of…

From ‘The Libretto’ – June 2011 Holly is a Welsh classical music singer from Duffryn, Newport, born 31 December 1988. A soprano, she has been likened to fellow Welsh performer Katherine Jenkins. Caldicot Male Voice Choir and Holly have a long association going back to when, as a young girl, she sang at several concerts…

From ‘The Libretto’ – June 2011 We received the sad news that ex-choir member Barry Hammacott passed away last Friday. Barry sang 2nd Tenor in the choir, but had to leave about 2 years ago due to health problems. Our deepest sympathy and condolences go to Barry’s family.

The choir performed a concert in Faringdon on Saturday 4 June,  for the local Rotary Club, and although the number of choristers who travelled was disappointing it was a case of quality not quantity on this occasion.  Shirley Ann was our Musical Director for the night and Stephen Berry accompanied on the piano. The very appreciative audience…

I received a phone call whilst in the Choir Hall from our President Richard Evans telling me that Roy Shuck had passed away on Thursday 26 May, in complete shock and lack of words it dawned on me the impact this would have on the Choir. Roy gave his life and complete dedication to his role…

Our next concert will be held at All Saints Church, Faringdon, Oxfordshire on Saturday 4th June. There has been a church on this site since the 12th century, the south door is a marvellous 12th century piece of wrought iron. The main body of the church is 13th century, the organ was installed in 1969…

The fund raising event at Bishton went down very well with the audience, the choir sang to a full house and at the end of each piece of music received loud applause. Musical Director Sian Hatton sang two solo spots and also received a very good response. Shirley Ann James equally played her part as…

Gentlemen of the Choir and readers of this site, I would like bring to your attention one particular chorister without whom the concept of putting the choir on the Web some years ago would not have taken place, this gentleman is Frank Thomas (2nd Tenor). His commitment to this has been none other than 101%…

The next concert for the choir will be at St. Cadwaladr’s Church, Bishton on Friday, 20th May. The evening will start at 7.30pm. Bishton or Bishopston (Welsh: Llangadwaladr Trefesgob or simply Trefesgob) is a small rural community in the east of the city of Newport, south Wales. The parish lies in the Llanwern electoral district (ward) and contains the eastern end…

Welcome to the new website for the Caldicot Male Voice Choir. This site will include information about the choir, including concerts, choir history, the musical team, choristers etc., and will in the future include archived history and the ability to hear and purchase the choir’s back catalogue.

From ‘The Libretto’ – May 2011 The choir is looking for any members of the choir who would like to be trained as bar staff. At the moment we have 3 bar staff and we want to at least double that. This will give us more flexibility in the bar and also would keep queues…

From ‘The Libretto’ – April 2011 The passing of Roy was a big shock as he looked so well at the Race Night. The funeral was held at St. Mary’s Chepstow, where there was standing room only. Approx 40 choristers sang at the funeral conducted by John Evans. Roy had requested ‘The Fields of Athenry’…

From ‘The Libretto’ – April 2011 This years Annual concert was again well turned out with Sian making comments on the way we sang the following songs, ‘Tydi A Rhoddaist’, ‘The Crusaders’, ‘The Lords Prayer’ and ‘O Gymru’ (sang with Rhys Mierion). “The hairs on the back of my neck stood up” was the response from one member of…