t was very unusual for us to have two events on the same day, but to celebrate St. David’s Day, that’s what we did.  We started by giving a lunch time concert in the centre of Swansea Market as part of their Croeso event, which took took place over two days on the 1st & 2nd of March.  A large crowd gathered as we entertained them for for over half an hour.  We sang some traditional Welsh numbers: ‘Calon Lan’, ‘Cwm Rhondda’, ‘Y Darlun’, ‘O Gymru’ and the Welsh National Anthem.   We also sung some songs from our normal repertoire; ‘There Is A Land’ – a lovely song about singing in Wales, ‘The Impossible Dream’, ‘One Day I’ll Fly Away’ and ‘Can’t Take My Eyes Off You’ – this got the audience joining in.  The audience and stall holders thoroughly enjoyed the singing.

Our second event of the day was a charity concert to raise funds for the Mumbles & Gower Marie Curie Fundraising Group.  This took place in the evening in All Saints Church in Oystermouth. The church was full and the audience thoroughly enjoyed the concert.  The choir performed two sessions in each half with Matthew Ioan Sims, our Musical Director, singing between them in the first half and Daniel Davies, one of our top tenors, in the second half.  We repeated all the songs we had sung earlier in the day at the market but added ‘What Would I Do Without My Music’, You Raise Me Up’, ‘Benedictus’, ‘Three Times A Lady’, ‘You are So Beautiful’ and ‘If We Only Have Love’.  We hope that the concert raised a large amount of money for the Marie Curie charity, a very worthwhile cause.