Sandra Knight’s tenure as our Musical Director came to an end in early December.  Sandra has been with us throughout the pandemic and we thank her for all she has done for the choir during that time.  We are very fortunate that our former MD, Nick Rogers has agreed to step in while we search for a replacement.  Our permanent accompanist, Rhian, is unable to be with us at the moment so we are very grateful to Steve Wilson and Gareth Widlake who have stood in to fill the gap, we are very fortunate to have such talented musicians in the choir.

We were very disappointed that our first Christmas concert at St Hilary’s Church had to be cancelled due to coronavirus restrictions.

Our second concert went ahead in All Saints Church on the 16th December in Oystermouth and it was a great success.  We, along with the soprano Ross Evans, sang to raise funds for Maggie’s, a local Cancer support charity.  We were able to christen our new staging that we had purchased before the pandemic.  We sang a mixture of music including some new songs from our repertoire and well as some of our traditional Christmas songs (see the programme).

During the concert ties were presented to some choristers in recognition of their long of service to the choir, this should have been done before but lack of formal concerts, again due to Covid, has caused a build-up of recipients.

35 Years – Clive Walters.        25 Years – Nick Rogers and Mike Williams.        20 Years – Des Criddle and Steve Wilson.        
15 Years – John Morgan.      10 Years – Peter Jacobs and Craig Thomas.        5 Years – Clive Dowell, James McCarry, Carl Sullivan and Phil Withy.

Brian Warwick (5 Years) and Geoff Wheel (10 Years) will have their ties presented at the next opportunity.  We congratulate them all and thank them for all they do for the choir.