CMVC News and Events

	The choir was invited to perform at The Welsh Guards Band concert held at the Leisure Centre in Cowbridge on Wednesday 17 September 2008. The concert was a sell out. Shelley Thomas-Brown the choirs musical director took the opportunity to conduct the Band, the choir and Iona Jones, soprano (Hon. President of CMVC) in a rousing performance of 'Morte Cristi'. The concert was held to raise funds for Cowbridge Grammar & Comprehensive schools and to celebrate 400 years of Cowbridge Grammar School - 1608-2008.
On Friday 12th September at All Hallows RC Church in Miskin' Cowbridge MVC hosted the 'Liedertafel Choir' from Gouda in Holland. The concert was in aid of the Ed Evan's Trust and Tenovus. A total of £750 was raised and shared between the charities. The Dutch choir sang a range of classical pieces; and, as a mark of respect for Wales sang Myfanwy in Welsh and did a good job of it too. A photograph of the Liebertafel choir in full voice was taken by Niki Wood who is also the choir's CD sales excecutive. Cowbridge MVC took the opportunity during the concert to release for sale their latest double CD 'Voices from the Vale' 'Lleisiau o'r Fro'. The CD contains 18 songs including:-Welsh Hymns, The Beatles, Negro Spirituals, Kings of Swing, Modern Pop, Le Miserables' and others. The CD is priced at £12. As a special offer the choir is selling its new CD together with its previous best selling CD 'In Lighter Vein' for £15. This is excellent value. All the revenue from the sale of the CDs will go directly to assist the choir with its work for charity.
	The Choir recorded a new Compact Disc last week. The recording took place at All Saints Church in Porthcawl. The CD will contain traditional Welsh Hymns/songs; it will also have a selection of songs from west end shows such as Jesus Christ Superstar and Les Miserables and two Ivor Novello pieces. The CD will be available for sale in August 2008. For advanced orders please contact either the Concert Secretary or Choir Secretary at the email addresses listed in the contact page.
Choristers find it hard to imagine that they have completed thirty-five years of annual concerts in Cowbridge; the 35th concert took place in the towns leisure centre on Saturday 17th May and it was a sell out. Our guest soloists for the evening were Iona Jones (Soprano) and Simon Mullins (Baritone). Iona is also the Hon. President of the choir and strongly supports its charitable aims. Simon won the 2008 Bridgend singer of the year award, he is a pupil at Maesteg Comprehensive school. The choir gives young people like Simon the opportunity to perform and showcase their talent.	The photograph shows our Musical Director Shelley Thomas-Brown with Sandra Williams (Accompanist) and Iona Jones at the afterglow reception in the Cowbridge RUFC.
	The Millennium Centre is a great place to show case your product; the choir took full advantage of this fact by performing a free concert at the centre on Saturday 10th May between 1-00pm and 2-30pm. The concert took place within the foyer area of the centre on the Tesco Stage. The photograph was taken outside the centre in front of the impressive glass water tower.
On Saturday 19th April at the request of the Rolls Royce enthusiasts (South Wales Branch) the choir gave a 45 minute pre dinner concert at the plush Vale of Glamorgan Hotel in Hensol. The revenue from the concert went into choir coffers for use in support of the choir's 2008/09 charitable commitments. There were a large number of valuable Rolls Royce cars in the hotel car park; some were old and some were very new, but each one had the timeless class and the spirit of elegance that only a Rolls Royce can exude. One of our choristers took a shine to one of the cars but alas could only just afford to look at it!
	Cmvc traveled to Northampton on Saturday 12th April to perform a concert in aid of the HOPE Charity. A party of 50 choristers attended St Giles Church, which is situated in the centre of the town and gave a two hour concert. HOPE is charitable organisation which has its finger in many pots and does a tremendous amount of work supporting charities. The concert realised £1,300.00 for the charity. The photograph shows the choir singing at the church with Shelley Thomas-Brown (MD) conducting and Sandra Williams playing the piano.
The choir traveled to Llantilio Crossenny on Saturday 1st March, a village on the outskirts of Abergavenny, to perform a St David's day concert in aid of St Teilo's Church restoration fund. The church and the surrounding area is extremely picturesque but very remote. The coach driver found the very narrow roads during the latter part of the journey very challenging. Some 200 local inhabitants turned up to support the church and to listen to the choir. The choir was treated to a large buffet supper in a local pub called The DOG! Needless to say we had to sing for it.
	The choir sang at the 'Love at the Opera' Gala performance in the Cowbridge Leisure Centre on the evening of Thursday 14th February 2008 which featured Sian Cothi (Soprano) Wyn Evans (Tenor) and Mark Evans (Baritone) and the Welsh Sinfonia Orchestra. The concert was well attended and a great evening was experienced by one and all
Tour Of Cyprus CMVC supported British Forces Heroes charity by performing a concert in the Sovereign Base of Dhekilia - St Barnabas Church. Approximately 300 ex pats and service personnel attended, over £1,000 donated to the charity. Superb hospitality received from our Army hosts at their Officers mess, where the choir held its post concert afterglow.

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