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photos: James Boyle

One hundred and twenty friends and guests joined members of the London Welsh Rugby Choir for a Christmas celebration evening held in the London Welsh Centre in Gray’s Inn Road on Saturday 17 December, and all were delighted with the outcome of the convivial evening.

12 large circular tables decked the hall and bowed under the weighty finger buffet fodder and festive spirits. Cunningly placed, the table became a prop for audience participation in singing Twelve Days of Christmas and other favourite carols.

After a warm welcome from the Chairman of London Welsh Association the festive occasion was under way. The net result was super audience singing, satisfaction felt by all and over £1500 much needed funds raised for the LWA.

The back-room boys did a splendid job in organising the event, Choir conductor Mike Jones thoughtfully planned the programme and made a few new arrangement for the choir and the orchestra was the flawless Anita D’Attelis on the piano.

 

My evening, singing with the London Welsh Rugby Choir

Gareth James (aged 14 yrs)

James and son

I am a member of the school choir at Cranmore School in West Horsley, Surrey and was delighted when I found out that the London Welsh Rugby Choir would be coming to the school to sing with us. What an evening!!
We started off with a workshop and ran through the songs that we would be singing later in the evening, this was great as we learnt some new things.
When it was time for the concert to start we were all wondering how we would do, especially singing with voices that can be a lot louder than our own.  The concert lasted for half an hour and we joined the choir with two of the songs, they sounded fantastic.

Outreach work was a huge triumph

The choir held a successful music workshop with pupils of Cramnore School that culminated with a joint concert that delighted parents and friends.

Hong Kong and New Zealand 2005

This unique male choir with its long name was founded by a small group of jolly gentlemen with a passion for songs, sitting at the bar of The London Welsh Rugby Football Club in Richmond, London.
The 40-strong choir has a wide age range, from mid-twenties to those called seniors.
Founded in 2003, the London Welsh Rugby Club Choir was initially formed to promote the name of the London Welsh Rugby Club to a broader audience and to visit New Zealand at the same time as the British and Irish Lions on their 2005 tour. Such was the success of the choir in New Zealand that, instead of performing at small rugby clubs as originally planned, much bigger venues were organised.
The choir found itself playing to packed audiences at Christchurch Town Hall, Wellington Cathedral and the Te Papa Museum, not to mention recording two songs for the New Zealand edition of "Top of the Pops".

Andalusia Spain 2009

Spain's Costa del Sol was the setting for the latest tour of the London Welsh Rugby Club Choir and it certainly lived up to its name as a week of brilliant sunshine and cloudless skies greeted the choir on their first full concert tour since New Zealand in 2005.
The choir, with musical director Michael Wyn Jones and accompanist Christopher Duckett, gave three concerts during the week, raising many thousands of euros for CUDECA, the first hospice to be built in the region.
The first performance was at the concert theatre in Alhaurin, a complex sited inland from the capital Malaga.
The second concert saw the choir travel to the beautiful seaside resort of Nerja with it's narrow streets and 'Balcony of Europe' overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
The last concert was at the stunning resort of Kempinski in Estepona, where another packed audience had turned up to hear the choir. Also present at this concert was the founder of the CUDECA Hospice.
This was not the final performance of the choir however as they had been asked to be the Welsh representatives in the 'Great Britain Festival', a showcase promoting British goods on the Costa del Sol, singing in the Miramar complex in Fuengirola.