Shwmae i chi,

Croeso i safle wê Côr Meibion Cymreig Awstralia; welcome to the website of the Australian Welsh Male Choir - (auswelshmalechoir).

Well, how can one sum up a concert as exciting and successful as the concert held at the Robert Blackwood Hall on Sunday 21st June. The combined talents of over 100 voices of The Australian Welsh Male Choir and The Melbourne Welsh Male Choir, together with their respective MD's, Anne Credlin and Lucas de Jong, and accompanists Tom Buchanan and Linda O'Brien delighted and thrilled a very appreciative audience.

The soloists added cream to the cake!

Who can forget Nessun Dorma sung by the very talented Roy Best with the backing of the full choir, or Jacqueline Porter and her rendition of The Nun's Chorus again with the backing of the choir. Suzanne Johnston entertained everyone with her provocative version of Habañera - some of the choir members were almost unable to sing after her flirtatious antics!

The City of Greater Dandenong Brass Band with their MD and Conductor Colin Lord, provided the accompaniament for a number of the choir's pieces. Finlandia was a highlight and showed both the band and choir in their best form and was a great hit with the audience.

If you weren't there, then you missed a fantastic afternoon of sheer delight! Don't miss out on the next one! A4 size colour photos of the choir and the combined choir and band are available from our Secretary at a cost of $10.

Keep an eye on our Concert schedule as we will soon be adding our 2010 schedule as bookings are confirmed.

Any men considering joining with us are welcome to visit us on our rehearsal night - Monday evenings at 7.30pm, The Chapel, Village baxter, Robinson's Road, Frankston (Gate 2 entrance).

Our choir has over three decades of musical heritage, and during that time has had the good fortune to have sung at the Royal Albert Hall in London on a number of occasions, the Sydney Opera House, as well as performing on television and at many locations around the Victoria, interstate and in the UK.

We are a group of men with ages spanning over 60 years, our youngest chorister is 20 years old and at the other end of the spectrum one of our members is 84 years young.

We love our music with a passion that is difficult to convey in words, but when we sing, we create beautiful harmonies and the rapture on the audience’s faces when we sing sends shivers down my spine. To think that we are capable of producing such a sweet sound is awesome, and to see the appreciation of our audience is truly rewarding.

We sing songs in many languages, at the last count we perform works in six different languages, but mainly we sing in English and what we call the “language of the angels” Welsh.

Our repertoire covers works from hymns, folk songs, Negro spirituals and opera, as well as music from stage shows, take time to listen to our choice of songs on this site so you can appreciate what we are like.

We would like men of all ages who can string together a few notes to join us, we will train you to improve your singing. We have three brilliant musicians who train us at rehearsals and we would welcome you to join us so you too can experience the thrill of entertaining an appreciative audience.

We are a “not for profit organisation” and do many concerts for charity and other deserving groups.

Neil Kinsey
President

Côr Meibion Cymreig Awstralia