North Wales Choral Festival 2014 - The Concert

The Willmott Dixon North Wales Choral Festival 2014
7 November, Venue Cymru

The Concert

Rhys Meirion
A collaboration of Male Voice (Colwyn MVC, Maelgwn MVC & Trelawnyd MVC)
Trio (Bedwyr Parri, Emyr Wyn Gibson & Steffan Owen)
Annette Bryn Parri
Erin Gwyn Rossington

[nellieedwards]

My dear late husband was from Cardiff and oh how he loved concerts like this...and I find peace and joy in them too!

[lynryall]

Welsh me nanna married an English man ...so Welsh was rarely spoken., .but dam I wish I had learned, in my school it wasn't spoken... The trials of my country were many and I've have heard stories from my Nanna about my English granddad that earned him the right to be proud of his introduction to Wales, struggled they all did, I loved them so much, Myfanwr my Nan and the song does them both justice...xxx

[jhvoojh]

I could say a million words, but one will do.

Wonderful!!

Ok two, outstanding.

[worldcooking]

This choral ensemble from this festival concert is wonderful!

[judithpetrou]

My English father taught us to love the male Choirs of Wales in and about 1946 in what was Rhodesia now Zimbabwe and I love them still

[irenerobertson-smith]

My dad was a coal miner in Glasgow for 41 years and there is nothing I love better than listening to a Welsh miners choir

[elizabethbarnard]

Fantastic really 👏 👌 😀 out of this world 🌎

[sarahhearn-vonfoerster]

Fantastic performance. It always makes me even prouder of that part of my family who are Welsh when I hear these melodious, golden voices. They speak to every heart ❤️!

[antm]

When the words aren't understood, all that remains is the beauty of the voice. I am so grateful that I can hear these lovely voices! Thank you!

[shirleycreazzo]

Lovely, delightful, mesmerizing. Every minute, every note.

[pamelafitzpatrick]

Thank you so much for posting! What a wonderful concert! 🥳

[mexicallyrose]

Absolutely beautiful singing, I only wish I could understand the Welsh language, I could listen to it sung and spoken all day. I'll be listening to this video over and over again. The hardworking pianists and commentator were lovely. Thanks for posting this for us.

[dylanjones]

Published on my 40th birthday. There has to be an omen there somewhere. Can't get enough of male voice choirs, such a beautiful sound. So lucky to be from this part of the world.

[janets]

Said to see there are only older gentlemen in the choir, no younger men. It's a shame. Beautiful voices.

[donaldedward]

There is a land I know it well
A land across the sea,
Where my kith and kin do dwell,
A land that’s dear to me.
It’s a place of wild sea coasts,
Of mountains, moors and vales
And the sweetest folk on earth I boast;
The land I love is Wales.
“One day I shall return” I cry
“To breath sweet Cymru’s air”.
I vow I’ll go before I die,
To a land both sweet and fair.
To hear the ancient tongue once more,
The invaders could not quell,
I yearn to cross that rocky shore
Sing the songs I love so well

In a fit of homesickness, I wrote this. In Welsh we call it HIRAETH. Wales is the name the English gave to the land known to us as Cymru. Our language is Cymraeg, a Celtic language spoken in one form or another when the Romans arrived on the shores of our island which they named Provincia Brittania over 2000 years ago.

[bernadettevanderploeg]

there is an episode of the Midsomer Murders where they also song this song, i believe.

[brianneale]

I Come from the Rhondda home of the Treorchy Male Voice choir

[hepzebahsu]

I love that all the Welsh choirs sing the same arrangements so they can easily sing together - I can hum along. Altho I"ve never heard them sing Dixie!

[heidikortman]

These gentlemen sound wonderful, but where are their sons, nephews and grandsons to continue the tradition?

[julieshrive]

I remember a wonderful welsh choir at Crouch End Town Hall North London during the Miner's Strike .The songs are usually very well chosen .When I was employed some of the best teachers were Welsh was it the heritage or the training nature or nature ?