Wagga Rugby Club Choir

On Saturday 16th August the Vic Welsh choir travelled 450km north to Wagga Wagga, NSW for the first leg of a weekend country tour. There, to a sell-out crowd of around 400 people on Saturday evening, we presented a joint concert with the Wagga Rugby Club Choir at the marvellous Civic Theatre. The Vic Welsh sang with the Wagga Rugby Choir in London in 2012 at the Royal Festival Hall, part of a 530-strong choir drawn from around the world in one of the cultural events leading up to the Olympic Games.

The Wagga choir opened the first half of the programme with: Let All Men Sing, The Rose, Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) and a Sinatra medley. The Vic Welsh then followed with: Men of Harlech, Rachie, Dashenka, What Would I do Without My Music and Amazing Grace.

After interval, Vic Welsh opened the second half of the programme with: Anvil Chorus (Il Trovatore), Si Hei Lwli ‘Mabi, Anfonaf Angel and Waltzing Matilda. The Wagga Rugby Choir then sang an: American Trilogy, Where Will I be, My Wish For You and World In Union.

The concert ended with both choirs on stage, some 80 male voices, giving stirring renditions of When the Saints Go Marching In and Stout Hearted Men – both of which the two choirs sang together in London – a fitting end to a wonderful evening, one which was much appreciated by the large and very enthusiastic audience.