The Vic Welsh finished the musical year with an exhilarating evening of singing at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Ballarat on 23 December. A group of 15 of our choristers joined three mixed male and female voice Ballarat choirs in the Cathedral’s

Vale Jack Clarke OAM 19 May 1921 – 13 December 2016 About 30 choristers and ex-choristers, and some partners, farewelled their esteemed retired Life Member Jack Clarke on 19 December 2016 at the Camberwell Uniting Church, where he and Elaine

“entertainment of the highest order and fine musicianship to boot” “an absolute pleasure – a wonderful blend of voices and just the right amount of audience participation” “absolutely fantastic” “performance standard very HIGH” “so professional and entertaining – couldn’t improve

The choir was invited to perform two Welsh hymns, Calon Lân and Gwahoddiad, both with the inclusion of English verses, at the wedding of one of our chorister’s daughters, at the Camberwell Baptist Church. The bride’s father niftily changed pews

On 1st December Côr Bach (our small choir) was engaged to sing at the Rivers Edge Function Centre for the Christmas lunch of the XLI Club, most of whose members are retirees from the police force. A wide variety of

Victoria Welsh Choir were the guests of the Sri Lankan ConChord Choir in a twilight concert in Berwick on Saturday 12 November. Versatile compère Drew Hopkins had no trouble pronouncing ConChord’s first bracket conducted by their Musical Director Rushan Hewawasam

On Sunday 6th November Victoria Welsh Choir led the singing at the Remembrance Day Service at the Springvale War Cemetery for the tenth time since 2004. 

 “a joyful, melodious, emotional afternoon’s entertainment” “the ethereal sound of the harmonies” “such a thrill to hear the harmony of a male voice choir. The choir is excellent. It brings back memories of Wales” “beautiful balance of strong male voices

On Friday 14 October 2016 the choir family farewelled second tenor Dale Sayers (22-9-1933 – 7-10-2016) a chorister since January 1999. As his own Uniting church would not have accommodated all who wished to attend, the service was held in

“the most moving experience of my life” “sublime moments. Wonderful conductor (fun singalong)” “Sublime singing, uplifting, wonderful harmonies. Can’t fault anything.” “Working Man – sensational and very moving.” “Pianist is brilliant. Harmony is Excellent.” “A beautiful presentation. We are blessed.”

On Thursday 22nd September we were hired to perform a mini-concert for a client’s sister-in-law’s 60th birthday. As it was a surprise and there was limited hiding space on the back patio, just twelve members of Côr Bach attended, accompanied

“Privilege to hear you!” “Exhilarating, great choice of music.” “a beautiful, emotional journey carrying me back in time.” ” fantastic pianist and your lady conductor is amazing” “Great response from audience.” ” I was transported!!” “The best choir ever.” “Hair

“loved the audience participation” “I thoroughly enjoyed it” “Please come again” “beautiful harmony” “wonderful choir leader and pianist” We were very pleased to be invited back to Rosebud after two years for another Saturday afternoon concert in a full church.

The choir were guests of The Legends of Brass at their gala Last Night of the Proms concert at The Centre Ivanhoe. In the first bracket, the choir sang What Would I Do Without My Music, O Gymru and Working

“Pure pleasure – keep up the good work!” “Very uplifting” “As usual – excellent.” We were very happy to be invited back to Strathmore after two years for another Sunday afternoon concert, and it was gratifying to see extra chairs

“An afternoon of musical bliss!!” “An emotional afternoon.” “The sound spine-tingling!” ” Gorgeous voices” “great participation for the audience” “Da iawn! Absolutely fantastic” On a very fresh day the choir was delighted to put on a wide-ranging concert for the

“Words cannot describe the amount of pleasure and enjoyment” “Absolutely beautiful!” “fabulous blend of voices” “Loved today’s concert” “Superb afternoon of brilliant, enthusiastic singing” We were delighted to be back at St John’s after eight months as part of their

For our first concert since the UK tour, the choir travelled to Buninyong to perform at a fundraiser for the local Catholic church. The organiser was John White, a member of the congregation and also a founder member of the

For our fourth tour concert we travelled to Pershore in Worcestershire to sing with the Worcester Male Voice Choir in the breath-taking ambience and superb acoustic of the ancient Pershore Abbey. We started the first half with O Gymru and

For the third concert in our tour we travelled north-west to Aberaeron where our hosts were the Ceredigion Women’s Institute Choir. The first half of the concert consisted of three brackets presented by us interspersed with solos and duets from

The next evening our hosts at St. Mark’s, Gabalfa, were the mixed choir Cantorion Creigiau. In the first half we sang What Would I Do Without My Music, Morte Criste, Dashenka (percussion John Evans) and O Gymru, again followed by Pemulwuy, which once more elicited prolonged

We kicked off our tour of Wales and Worcestershire as guests of Côr Meibion Taf in their concert at the Tabernacl Church in Cardiff on 20th May. We began our first bracket with What Would I Do Without My Music

On 16th April, Victoria Welsh Choir made a return visit after two years to Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Doncaster.  Comments from the audience included: Excellent – a find!  Anthony Great harmony; very good soloists and accompaniment; must be the

10th April 2016 at Holy Trinity Church: “love all the harmonising” “Beautiful – loved the rich male voices” “brilliant sound ” “fantastic concert!” “Wonderful experience! Great harmony” On the afternoon of Sunday 10th April Victoria Welsh returned after 3 years

On 5th April 2016 our Côr Bach (small choir) took part in a celebration of the life of proud Welshman Arthur “Ossie” Hollister in Yarrambat. We started off the ceremony by singing Myfanwy, the archetypal Welsh love song (whose name

On 2nd March our Côr Bach (Small Choir) visited Park Hill Gardens in Mornington to help celebrate the hundredth birthday of one of its residents, Welsh-born Nancy Harradine. Welsh favourites in our short concert included Men of Harlech (bilingual), We’ll

Once again the four Welsh choirs came together at St Michael’s Church as part of the Welsh Church’s St David’s Day celebrations. This year the Geelong Ladies and the Australian, Melbourne and Victoria male choirs were joined by the Excelsis

26th February 2016 at the Melbourne Recital Centre: “better all the time” “wonderful mix – one of the best concerts I’ve seen” “Co-cheòl were an added treat/brilliant/magnificent/stunning” “Rhys Meirion was exceptional” “The choir was magnificent. The conductors – brilliant. The