The atmosphere and ‘sheer hwyl’ (meaning sheer fun) at the Victoria Welsh Choir performance, at the Echuca Moama Uniting Church, is not to be missed.
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The Victoria Welsh Choir will perform at the Echuca-Moama Uniting Church on Sunday, July 21, at 7 pm.
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Victoria Welsh Choir member Garry Salsbury is looking forward to performing at the Echuca-Moama Uniting Church.
“We travel around to different venues and do many country performances,” Mr Salsbury said.
“And the Echuca-Moama Uniting Church has got fantastic acoustics.
“Anne Peace does a fantastic job of organising this performance and organises many other performances.
“She is great, and we have had a terrific relationship with her, performing there about every two years.”
At least 25 per cent of the Victoria Welsh Choir’s repertoire will be in Welsh, as the group’s constitution requires the maintenance of Welsh music.
Victoria Welsh Choir will sing stirring hymns that raise the roof in chapels from Caerdydd to Caergybi, poignant ballads of young (and not-so-young) unrequited love, age-old folk songs, mostly sung in the language of heaven – Cymraeg.
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“We are committed to trying to maintain that,” Mr Salsbury said.
“We have a new musical director, Rushan Hewawasan, who is really popular.
“He has brought a new breath of fresh air to the choir and has new ideas that have been terrific for us.”
At the heart of the Victoria Welsh men’s choir’s repertoire is the music that has earned Wales the title “Land of Song”.
This includes stirring hymns that raise the roof in chapels from Caerdydd to Caergybi, poignant ballads of young (and not-so-young) unrequited love and age-old folk songs, mostly sung in the ‘language of heaven’ – Cymraeg.
The rest of the choir’s repertoire encompasses various genres from other Celtic nations and regions such as Ireland, Scotland and Cornwall, as well as songs from a variety of other countries and cultures, including Australian songs and American gospel songs, choruses from opera, light opera, stage and film.
The Victoria Welsh men’s choir performs, from memory, in tenor one, tenor two, baritone and bass arrangements, in which the four parts are more closely blended than for mixed choirs.
The Victoria Welsh Choir will perform at the Echuca-Moama Uniting Church on Sunday, July 21, at 7 pm.
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To Mr Salsbury, the choir is a bit like a Men’s Shed.
“It is a place of great friendship and companionship, a terrific bunch of people from hugely diverse backgrounds,” he said.
“What unites us is the music.
“The Welsh choir operates a bit like that; it is a great place to develop friendships and sing.
“The important thing about singing is how good it is for you, and it’s great to be involved in.”
The atmosphere and ‘sheer hwyl’ (meaning sheer fun) at the Victoria Welsh Choir performance at the Echuca-Moama Uniting Church is not to be missed.
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