SMALL CHOIR’S WIN
3 a.m. START TO COMPETE.
LIVERPOOL, August 10
The choir of the small parish of St. Michael-on-the-Hill, Llanfihangel, Montgomeryshire, which, won the first prize in the church choir class at the Welsh Eisteddfod to-day, numbers only twenty-seven singers. There are not more than fifty communicants in the tiny hillside parish, the population of which is but 400.
The vicar of Llanfihangel, Canon J. R. Roberts, combines the duties of parish priest and choirmaster.
“It is impossible to imagine a more thoroughly Welsh rustic choir,” Canon Roberts told me to-day, “but they have glorious voices and the musical instincts of the Welsh hillfolk, since their ancestors were wandering minstrels. They live in hill farms, and they had to walk as many as five miles for practices. To get here in time for the competition this morning we had to leave home at 3 a.m.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 September 1929, Page 2
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