Saturday, June 17fed saw our long-awaited Annual Concert at All Saints, Mumbles and the reaction of the packed audience was positively tremendous. A widely varied programme included, of course, many of our established favourites and blockbusters, but Musical Director Matthew Simms has introduced much that is new to Gwalia, including the Welsh hymn ‘Y Darlun’ and the soulful ‘To Where You Are’. 
Our regular followers were delighted with a first-class concert and there is no doubt that new supporters now understand why Gwalia Singers is now such a fast-growing choir in both numbers and reputation.
Our young guest performers, tenor Harri Morgan and soprano Kathryn Forrest, delighted everybody with performances that were of the highest quality and superb entertainment and our guest accompanist Jeffrey Howard was faultless as always.
In addition, our own wonderful Rhian showed just why we would never change her! An additional crowd-pleaser was our own soloist, Daniel Davies and all were charmed by the lovely young Ukrainian ladies who performed a folk dance, prompting a big boost to our bucket collection for that charity. Of course, we thank Matthew for his energetic direction, as well as his usual contribution with a solo verse here and there.
During the evening, long service ties were presented to choristers as follows: 30 years – John Davies, 25 years – Lawrence Sutton and Pip George, 15 years – Walter Jones and Walter Carey, and 5 years – John Ashmole, Steve Barker, Bill McCarley, Keith Riley and Gareth Widlake. Congratulations to them all.
The church eventually rang to a great all-round rendition of the National Anthem. It was, as many people averred, a simply splendid evening! To see more photographs please click here.
