North Wales Choral Festival 2014 - The Concert

The Willmott Dixon North Wales Choral Festival 2014
7 November, Venue Cymru
The Concert
Rhys Meirion
A collaboration of Male Voice (Colwyn MVC, Maelgwn MVC & Trelawnyd MVC)
Trio (Bedwyr Parri, Emyr Wyn Gibson & Steffan Owen)
Annette Bryn Parri
Erin Gwyn Rossington

[@nellieedwards5727]

My dear late husband was from Cardiff and oh how he loved concerts like this...and I find peace and joy in them too!

[@irenerobertson-smith5502]

My dad was a coal miner in Glasgow for 41 years and there is nothing I love better than listening to a Welsh miners choir

[@jhvoojh]

I could say a million words, but one will do. Wonderful!! Ok two, outstanding.

[@judithpetrou4418]

My English father taught us to love the male Choirs of Wales in and about 1946 in what was Rhodesia now Zimbabwe and I love them still

[@worldcooking]

This choral ensemble from this festival concert is wonderful!

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

Fantastic performance. It always makes me even prouder of that part of my family who are Welsh when I hear these melodious, golden voices. They speak to every heart ❤️!

[@pamelafitzpatrick2717]

Thank you so much for posting! What a wonderful concert! 🥳

[@elizabethbarnard7506]

Fantastic really 👏 👌 😀 out of this world 🌎

[@mexicallyrose]

Absolutely beautiful singing, I only wish I could understand the Welsh language, I could listen to it sung and spoken all day. I'll be listening to this video over and over again. The hardworking pianists and commentator were lovely. Thanks for posting this for us.

[@gregstemm4236]

Diolch Carol. Mwynhewch y gerddoriaeth. Rydyn ni'n Gymru wrth ein bodd yn canu! Ein rhodd i'r byd ... Thank you Carol. Enjoy the music. We Welsh love to sing! Our gift to the world...

[@gregstemm4236]

edrych i ffwrdd dixieland. look away dixieland!

[@trainmanbob]

I can speak and understand but a little of it but I call myself Welsh. I was adopted into one of the most famous Welsh families on my adoptive Mothers side and no one could be more Welsh than her. Sadly I spent most of my youth at English boarding schools thanks to my adoptive Father who died when I was 6 but my future was already written by him. I love Wales and everything Welsh. #This concert was lovely and reminds me of my first real Welsh experience..St Davids day concert in the early 1960s at the Royal Albert Hall.

[@dhart7236]

Heavenly sounds

[@lindacampbell3218]

Stunning

[@antm64]

When the words aren't understood, all that remains is the beauty of the voice. I am so grateful that I can hear these lovely voices! Thank you!

[@mexicallyrose]

I'm losing my hearing slowly but surely and videos like this are a real treat for me to listen to while I can.

[@revpgesqredux]

@@mexicallyrose Praying for you Carol....

[@debrabrown4151]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@lynryall1317]

Welsh me nanna married an English man ...so Welsh was rarely spoken.,.but dam I wish I had learned, in my school it wasn't spoken... The trials of my country were many and I've have heard stories from my Nanna about my English granddad that earned him the right to be proud of his introduction to Wales, struggled they all did, I loved them so much, Myfanwr my Nan and the song does them both justice...xxx

[@colinjohnson9889]

How good is the mc...superb.

[@dylanjones1477]

Published on my 40th birthday. There has to be an omen there somewhere. Can't get enough of male voice choirs, such a beautiful sound. So lucky to be from this part of the world.

[@gregstemm4236]

Pen-blwydd hapus Dylan. Cwt mawr mawr (pell) Cymreig i chi.

[@fungidungie]

I think it is something more then just enjoying, more of a human need.

[@shirleycreazzo969]

Lovely, delightful, mesmerizing. Every minute, every note.

[@brucefrizzell4221]

Der Musik ist sehr schön.

[@gregstemm4236]

A German response is nice. Dunka.

[@janets132003]

Said to see there are only older gentlemen in the choir, no younger men. It's a shame. Beautiful voices.

[@laurelnottage4744]

My thought exactly! They need the next generation to carry on this wonderful music.

[@carolynsmith2787]

The Gardner side of my family was from Wales and they were Southern sympathizers. So many generations ago so I’m not still fighting the war but it brought a tear to my eye to hear ‘Dixie’. This concert is wonderful. Maybe the boys from Only Boys Aloud will join when they grow up. There’s nothing like singing in a choir.

[@liliamaeve]

Look up Only Boys Aloud to see the next generation.

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

@@carolynsmith2787 It is a beautiful song of memories, no matter where we come from.( My family were Southern sympathizers, too, but music is more important than war, they decided..)

[@monicahart3071]

BEAUTIFUL!

[@bernadettevanderploeg9551]

there is an episode of the Midsomer Murders where they also song this song, i believe.

[@heidikortman2534]

These gentlemen sound wonderful, but where are their sons, nephews and grandsons to continue the tradition?

[@Randolph1233]

Heidi Kortman, the internet,TV and games consuls have ripped the heart out of faith filled Godly people. We are addicted to distraction. The education system is happy to ‘go with the flow’ of godlessness. We need revival, but that will only come when abortion is made unthinkable and is central to the Gospel message.

[@julieshrive3198]

I remember a wonderful welsh choir at Crouch End Town Hall North London during the Miner's Strike .The songs are usually very well chosen .When I was employed some of the best teachers were Welsh was it the heritage or the training nature or nature ?

[@brianneale2006]

I Come from the Rhondda home of the Treorchy Male Voice choir

[@user-eu1cm8wz9g]

Fantastic is all l can say ❤ 12:38

[@hepzebahsu]

I love that all the Welsh choirs sing the same arrangements so they can easily sing together - I can hum along. Altho I"ve never heard them sing Dixie!

[@gregstemm4236]

Ffordd i lawr i'r de yng ngwlad Dixie!

[@gregstemm4236]

Away down south in the land of Dixie.

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

@@gregstemm4236 Thank you 😊, from Greensboro, North Carolina, USA

[@ShirleyCroxon]

Allmost as good as victoria welsh choir.

[@alexkodwiw2640]

grateful if someone can post the lyrics? please?

[@alexandrae.selleri3840]

Perfect concert, sorry only to see a piano instead of the much more traditional harp.

[@chriscrow9934]

😊

[@donaldedward4951]

There is a land I know it well A land across the sea, Where my kith and kin do dwell, A land that’s dear to me. It’s a place of wild sea coasts, Of mountains, moors and vales And the sweetest folk on earth I boast; The land I love is Wales. “One day I shall return” I cry “To breath sweet Cymru’s air”. I vow I’ll go before I die, To a land both sweet and fair. To hear the ancient tongue once more, The invaders could not quell, I yearn to cross that rocky shore Sing the songs I love so well In a fit of homesickness, I wrote this. In Welsh we call it HIRAETH. Wales is the name the English gave to the land known to us as Cymru. Our language is Cymraeg, a Celtic language spoken in one form or another when the Romans arrived on the shores of our island which they named Provincia Brittania over 2000 years ago.

[@cornycorny2952]

Once the pandemic is over you must go to the land where your heart is. Wales is an amazing place. We have enjoyed both of our trips to the UK, but Wales was certainly a highlight.

[@donaldedward4951]

​@@cornycorny2952 Thank you. I plan to do this. I am glad you liked Wales so much. Yes it s beautif eeven when raining which is quite often.

[@donaldedward4951]

@@cornycorny2952 Thank you for that. I certainly intend to go, no matter the rain. There are two sayings in Wales about the rain, Edward. Mae hi'n bwrw hen wragedd a ffyn & Mae hi'n bwrw cyllyll a ffyrc. The "w" is a vowel pronounced like the "oo" in book and the "dd" like the English "th". (It's raining old ladies and sticks and It's raining knives and forks)

[@bettywilliams1874]

Thank you so much. At 74 years of age, my time is running out to visit across the ocean to the homeland of my ancestors. But you help me keep the vision alive...if only this pandemic would end!

[@donaldedward4951]

@@bettywilliams1874 It will not be long now, Betty; you just see. I things are going to be better this time nexxt year. Anyway, the best of luck to you.

[@irenerobertson-smith5502]

Sounds like Danish but like Scotland and Ireland the Welsh speak the Gaelic

[@deadmatripoly]

Can anybody please share what the second song is? It has the same chord-progression as a Xhosa song (South African) used in the movie The Power of One. Senzeni Na.

[@michelleevans7401]

Eli Jenkins' Prayer from Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood.

[@lloydellis5570]

Fy ngwald fy iaith ..... Cymru am byth

[@gregstemm4236]

Iaith hardd ac rydym yn sir sydd heb ei gwerthfawrogi. Cymru am byth !!

[@patriciaapetrone]

I was a little put off by "Dixie" because that is a song from the wrong side of the American Civil War. I found the rest of the concert soothing and rich.

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

Not really...it is a song for anyone away from their homeland. It was never written or intended to be used as a symbol of anything but homesickness. Please read about its origin.

[@patriciaapetrone]

@@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401 Is Dixie a Confederate song? Despite its origins in the popular music of the North, the song "Dixie" became the unofficial anthem of the Confederacy during the Civil War and still endures as a divisive symbol in modern America.

[@davestrickler5125]

I was very surprised to hear Dixie. This piece is extremely fraught in the United States. Please research the cultural significance, both past and present, of Dixie before programming it again.

[@alexandrae.selleri3840]

With all the Welsh songs possible, you choose the most depressing. No good.