Auckland Welsh Choir performs for St David's Day

Media Release February 2015

AUCKLAND WELSH CHOIR PERFORMANCE TO SUPPORT NZ BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION

Auckland Welsh Choir will return to St Joseph’s Church in Takapuna for its annual celebration in tribute to St David, Patron Saint of Wales. This year’s programme entitled ‘Favourite Songs for St David’s Day’ combines its cornerstone Welsh music with extracts from its repertoire of songs from the 1920s and 1930s, and an item performed on a Chinese zither.

The concert will also feature soloists and the chamber choir (known as Telynogion) in a wide variety of performance genre.

The choir will be supporting The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation with proceeds from the concert.

What: The Auckland Welsh Choir’s St David’s Day Concert
When: Sunday 1 March 2015, 3pm
Where: St Josephs Catholic Church, cnr Taharoto and Dominion Streets, Takapuna, Auckland

Tickets can be purchased for $25 by phone (09) 361 1000, through iticket www.iticket.co.nz (incurs service fee) or at the door (children are free). Concessions are available for student rush and group bookings.

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About the Auckland Welsh Choir
Côr Cymreig Auckland, our own Welsh Choir, is proud to be associated with the Welsh musical tradition and to maintain a generous slice of Welsh music and language as a cornerstone of the choir's existence in New Zealand.

The Choir is an accomplished 40 strong, four part, mixed choir. The musical repertoire ranges from its cornerstone Welsh to the lyrical and sacred, performed in English, Welsh, Latin and German, and sung a capella, accompanied and with orchestra. To check out the choir see www.aucklandwelshchoir.co.nz. and contact us on secawc@gmail.com. Rehearsals are on Thursday, St Barnabas Church, Mt Eden, 7.30pm.

Concerts are community fundraising based, providing a platform for established musicians as well as up and coming young performers, soloists and choristers. We aim for concerts of variety and style, up to six in any one year, and these take place throughout the country.

About St David
David was a 6th century Bishop venerated by Pope Callixtus II in 1120. A Welshman and founder of monasteries he was an extreme ascetic and renowned preacher and teacher. He was elected primate of the Welsh (or Cambrian) Church and reportedly consecrated as archbishop by the patriarch of Jersualem on a visit to the Holy Land. His miracles include the rising of the ground beneath his feet to form a small hill at Llanddewi Brefi.

He died on March 1st and is buried at St David’s Cathedral, St David’s, Pembrokeshire, Wales. His saint day has been celebrated for centuries by the Welsh and today is celebrated in all parts of the world by the Welsh diaspora.

The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
For more information about The NZBCF take a look at www.nzbcf.org.nz

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