St David's Day Celebration/Dathliad Dydd Gwyl Dewi
Celebrate St David's Day with Cor Meibion Caerfyrddin, Carmarthen Male Voice Choir The choir will be supported by a soprano harpist, and poetry. There will be a cash only bar and welsh cakes and barabrith will be available
HALL TERRACE, FERRYSIDE, SA175SN
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Ferryside On Stage, an organisation established to revitalise the Ferryside Village Hall and save the unique proscenium stage for future generation is holding its first event.
Cor Meibion Caerfyrddin, The Carmarthen Male Voice Choir has been an integral part of the music scene in Carmarthen and its neighbouring villages for almost 70 years. During that time, has travelled widely to such countries as Brittany, Germany, Holland, Canada, and Ireland.
The choir as featured in a festival for male voice choir in the Albert Hall, London and has had success at the National Eisteddfod.
The choristers, the majority of whom have Welsh as their first language, represent a good cross section of occupations and professions. Their love of singing unites them and their enthusiasm is apparent both in their public performances.
Becky Davies, Harp and Soprano, was a junior exhibitioner at the Royal College of Music. singing with the National Youth Choir and the National Youth Music Theatre.
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She studied music at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama having won a scholarship from the Worshipful Company of Musicians.
Becky has a passion for folk music. She is an accomplished pianist and a self-taught harpist, often accompanying herself or singing on both instruments. She also loves to sing acappella.
Dominic Williams is an internationally recognised poet. He lives in Ferryside. He describes poetry as his natural method of communication and enjoys performing his work.
He is the literary coordinator for Kultivera and Tranås at the Fringe international arts festivals in Sweden
He has published three books Pen & Paper: Punks in Print, (2021); En galen man på tåget, (2022) and The Lonely Crowd ( 2022), a translation of the Bengali poetry of Anisur Rahman.
Alexis Jones is a local poet and the driving force behind Ferryside On Stage. She regularly contributed poems to the monthly magazine STISH for over 10 years and has published Naturally Speaking, Nature - Based Speech Therapy (2024). She is a registered Speech Therapist and Homeopath and her poems embody the spirituality and importance of the interaction of people and their natural environment.
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