Since it was founded in 2007, Monmouth Concert Orchestra has gone from strength to strength. An amateur orchestra based in Monmouth, it comprises around 50 players from across Monmouthshire, Powys, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire. Led by its inspirational musical director, David J Davies, its original aim was to bring together adults (aged 18-80+!) some of whom […]
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Abergavenny Orchestral Society
Abergavenny Orchestral Society has been going for well over 100 years but is just about to embark on its most ambitious enterprise to-date. On November 29th it will be staging a performance of Beethoven’s last, greatest symphony – the Ninth – with its famous choral setting of Schiller’s Ode to Joy. This is not often […]
Abergavenny Orchestral Society
Abergavenny Orchestral Society has been going for well over 100 years but is just about to embark on its most ambitious enterprise to-date. On November 29th it will be staging a performance of Beethoven’s last, greatest symphony – the Ninth – with its famous choral setting of Schiller’s Ode to Joy. This is not often […]
Learn to Sing with Synergy
Have you ever wanted to improve your singing voice, but never quite got round to doing anything about it? Well here’s your chance to join up for a free 6 week Singing Course, run by Synergy, an acappella (without instrumental sound), close harmony chorus based in Abergavenny. The course, starting on Thursday 15th January, will […]
Learn to Sing with Synergy
Have you ever wanted to improve your singing voice, but never quite got round to doing anything about it? Well here’s your chance to join up for a free 6 week Singing Course, run by Synergy, an acappella (without instrumental sound), close harmony chorus based in Abergavenny. The course, starting on Thursday 15th January, will […]
Learn to Sing with Synergy
Have you ever wanted to improve your singing voice, but never quite got round to doing anything about it? Well here’s your chance to join up for a free 6 week Singing Course, run by Synergy, an acappella (without instrumental sound), close harmony chorus based in Abergavenny. The course, starting on Thursday 15th January, will […]
Abergavenny to host Mardi Gras weekend
The second annual wall2wall music festival returns to Abergavenny this August, with a stunning line up promised including some of the biggest names in UK jazz and more. Topping the bill will be multi-award winning Jacqui Dankworth who will be on tour with her latest album, the spectacular National Youth Jazz Orchestra famed for their […]
Singing in Abergavenny
The ‘Gwent Bach Society’ may sound like an academic body studying Bach, but in fact it is a friendly, sociable and dynamic choir of over 60 singers based primarily on Abergavenny. When it was formed in 1951 it certainly sung mainly works by Bach, but soon expanded to other composers, giving for Abergavenny and the […]
Alive & Kickin’ Choir
The 40 strong Alive and Kickin’ Community Choir Brecon was set up and is led by Tanya Walker, a trained natural voice practitioner with over 35 years experience in music. Tanya is also an award winning singer/ songwriter, composer and performer having performed her Arts Council funded musical work ‘Breaking the Fearwall’ at the Barclaycard […]
D Day Concert at St Mary’s Priory Church
The heroes of D-Day will be honoured at a special concert in Abergavenny to mark the 70th anniversary of the Allies landing in Normandy. D-Day 70 will feature both the junior and senior sections of Abergavenny Borough Band, soloists from St Mary’s Priory Church Choir and the Llanfoist Fawr Primary School choir. The programme is […]
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