Past Performances

2025 Performances

Ballarat Performing Arts Centre – 25 October 2025

Back to Past Performances 2025 Performances 2024 Performances The choir’s Ballarat chapter organised the marketing, publicity and sale of tickets for this Saturday afternoon concert at this new venue which was totally filled up by eager patrons on the day.

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Bairnsdale Uniting Church – 12 October 2025

Back to Past Performances 2025 Performances 2024 Performances The choir was pleased to be back for the fourth time, at the request of the Mitchell River Rotary Club but this time at a new venue The Bairnsdale Uniting Church oddly

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Reg Hazell’s Funeral Service – 8 October 2025

Back to Past Performances 2025 Performances 2024 Performances The choir’s longest serving chorister (joined September 1980) Reg Hazell was born on 15 October 1929 at Cardiff and died in Berwick 29 September 2025, just a few weeks short of his

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Gymanfa Ganu at the Welsh Church

Back to Past Performances 2025 Performances 2024 Performances The Welsh Church invited Rushan Hewawasam to conduct its Gymanfa Ganu on Sunday 24 August. The Rev. Siôn Gough Hughes officiated as well as managing the streamed service complete with displaying all

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Timeless Echoes Concerts – Sri Lanka

Back to Past Performances 2025 Performances 2024 Performances July 18 Lionel Wendt Theatre, Colombo 7.00 pm. De Lanerolle Brothers, Victoria Welsh Choir, Euphony Choir, Visakha Vidyalaya Choir, Wesley College Choir.   July 20 Dutch Reform Church, Galle 4.00 pm. De

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Bedford Heights Retirement Village

On the first day of winter – which also happened to be delightfully sunny – we made a return visit to Bedford Heights Retirement Village in Box Hill. It had been organised by village resident Jewel Matthews who is also

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Diary of a Welsh Swagman Castlemaine

Joseph Jenkins left his farm near Tregaron in Wales in 1869 and arrived in the goldfields area of Victoria where he spent the next 25 years working at a huge variety of farms before landing nine years’ continuous work looking

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Leighmoor Uniting Church

It was good to be back at Leighmoor after a few years, thanks to one of our basses Geoff Serpell, who had worshipped here for many years. The local publicity had obviously worked a treat as extra chairs had to

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Barwon Heads

On the warmest April day for over a decade we were delighted to go to the seaside town of Barwon Heads for the third time, to present a Sunday afternoon concert at the Community Hall. Maggie Isom, the president of

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Lancefield Concert

Choristers and supporters started arriving at the Lancefield Hall late morning to find the truck parked and the setup underway.  The performance space was a traditional 19th century building, imaginatively lit, with the boarded ceiling bathed in green light radiating

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St David’s Day Concert

For the second year running we were pleased to be back at Alexander Theatre for our annual concert. The choir, splendid with their buttonhole daffodils, came on with musical director Rushan Hewawasam and accompanist Mary O’Driscoll. With the audience respectfully

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St David’s Day Gymanfa Ganu

Coincidentally this year’s Gymanfa Ganu was held on the actual Saint David’s Day and, for the second year running, St Paul’s Cathedral in Melbourne was the beautiful venue. The Rev. Siôn Gough Hughes from the Welsh Church, who once again

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