This Saturday the Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir will be delighting the ears of its audience members at the Lester Centre of the Arts where the group will be kicking off their first ever Northern BC tour.
“This will be the Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir’s first visit up North, so we’re hoping to nice, big, warm welcome for them,” said Crystal Lorette, the General Manager at the Lester Centre.
The Lester Centre will be co-presenting this concert with the Prince Rupert Concert Society because it is such a large task to coordinate. The Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir will be the final concert in the Prince Rupert Concert Society’s annual season.
The Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir performs an arrangement of different Welsh songs, including folk songs, show tunes, spiritual songs, and more. The group formed in 1980 by members of the Vancouver Welsh Society and twenty years later has grown to over one hundred singers from an arrangement of ethnic back rounds. So far, 75 members of the choir have been confirmed to perform at the Prince Rupert show.
Over the past two decades, The Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir has traveled all over the world, performing internationally in countries such as Germany, the United States, England, New Zealand, Australia, Wales, Russia and Holland.
“I’ve heard them and they are phenomenal… It will be an excellent family show,” said Lorette.
The performance will start at seven p.m. on Saturday evening.