The South Wales Male Choir or Cr Meibion De Cymru

The South Wales male Choir is Wales' only truly regional male choir and is performing at the beautiful medieval Parish Church of St John Baptist in the centre of Cirencester.

At the concert they will be joined by the combined Military Wives Choirs.The choir was formed in 1982 to undertake a tour of the Eastern United States, as a result of Welsh-American promoters witnessing a Royal Albert Hall 1,000 Welsh Male Voice Concert.

Success and enjoyment in the 1983 tour had been so great that back home at the winding-up meeting, no fewer than 153 choristers (the number present!) unanimously voted to continue; the raison detre being to continue to take abroad the traditions of the Welsh Male Choir.To date, 28 tours have taken place USA (4), Canada (3), France, Gibraltar, Eastern Europe, Australia, together with no fewer than seven Commemorative Tours to the WWI and WWII Battlefields of Flanders and Normandy performing often before Royalty, Government Leaders and most importantly Veterans.

The choir has even travelled to Monaco for a one-off concert in the International Sporting Club, and cruised the Baltic with shore based concerts in Russia, Estonia, and Norway.Regular concerts in the UK have been included since the late 80s with St Davids Day celebration concerts nearly always being performed outside Wales.The South Wales Male Choirs ethos can be summed up by its original piano accompanist Bryan Davies, who said, Music is a serious business, but its got to be fun.

Three loud Amens to that!