Our annual concert was held at All Saints Church, Oystermouth on 5th July and was, again, a very successful event. The church was almost full and the audience was well entertained by the choir and artistes.

The guest soloists were two young local singers – Joe Morgan, baritone, and Bronwen Beckett-Evans, soprano. Joe started with a selection of arias from various operas, including ‘Largo al Factotum’ from ‘The Barber of Seville’ and his final selection contained ‘Myfanwy’, finishing with ‘Stars’ from ‘Les Miserables’. Bronwen also sung from musicals and opera and included ‘Think of Me’ from Phantom of the Opera and ‘Climb Every Mountain’ from ‘Sound of Music’.

We started the concert with ‘A Llawenydd Cenwch’ by Martin Shaw and followed this with the wonderful ‘Cantique de Jean Racine’ by Faur – which was brought back into the repertoire for this concert. The second half included ‘Can You Feel The Love Tonight’ from The Lion King, which we performed in Disneyland earlier in the year, and once again the concert finished with a medley of Sinatra songs arranged by Alan Simmons.

A very busy person at the concert was our accompanist Rhian Liles, who not only played for the choir, but also for both soloists, and a huge ‘thank you’ must go to her for this. Another feature was that Stephen Wilson accompanied us on the organ for the final verse of a number of the pieces including ‘Anthem’ from Chess and the two Welsh hymns Gwahoddiad and Cwm Rhondda. We are so fortunate to have such talented people in our ranks. During the evening Vernon Simons was presented his tie for 40 years’ service

The evening was beautifully compered by Colin Hodges and the evening ended with the choir chairman Paul Smith making presentations to the soloists and our musical team, and thanking them for their wonderful performances during the evening.