Aran singers
The Cor Godre’r Aran is the first major Welsh choir to visit New Zealand. The 24-voice male choir from the slopes of the Aran Mountains will perform in Christchurch’s Town Hall on November 2. The choristers meet to practise in the village of Llanuwchllyn and their first language is Welsh. On- their New Zealand tour they will give a varied programme of folk songs, penillion singing, hymns, operetta, musical comedy, operatic arias, Gilbert and Sullivan and popular songs and ballads. The choir came to the limelight in 1969 when it was invited by the Queen to sing at the investiture
of Prince Charles as the Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle. Soloists with the choir for its New Zealand tour are Marion Roberts, soprano, Tom Evans, baritone, and Gareth Lloyd, tenor. Marion Roberts is a winner at the National Eisteddfod in Wales as is Tom Evans. Gareth Lloyd will join the Monte Carlo Opera Company after the New Zealand tour. The choir’s conductor and accompanist is Eirian Owen. The choir performed in Australia on the way to New Zealand and has concerts in Whangarei, Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Timaru, * Dunedin and Christchurch.
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Press, 22 October 1986, Page 22
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