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The Pontarddulais Male Choir (Welsh: Côr Meibion Pontarddulais) is a Welsh male voice choir from Pontarddulais near Swansea, Wales. It is the most successful choir in Wales and is internationally renowned having performed in many parts of Europe as well as Canada and the United States.
Côr Meibion Pontypridd (Welsh: [ˈkoːr ˈmɛibjɔn ˌpɔntəˈpriːð]; "Pontypridd Male Voice Choir", literally "Choir of the Sons of Pontypridd") is a male voice choir from the Pontypridd area of the Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It was formed in 1949 as a traditional Welsh singing choir and is based in Pwllgwaun, a suburb of Pontypridd.
The choir was formed in 1966 by Bryan Myles. They competed in their first serious competition in 1978 - the Welsh Brewers' Choral Competition, held in Carmarthen.The following year they won in the category for fewer than 40 voices at the Miners' Eisteddfod in Porthcawl. 1981 saw the choir record a single with the Cory Band.
In 2010, the choir was given its own Welsh-language television series, Only Men Aloud, on S4C. [ 5 ] In May 2010 Tim Rhys Evans embarked on a new project, to revive the male voice choir tradition, by forming Only Boys Aloud [ 6 ] The boys made their first public appearance at the Ebbw Vale Eisteddfod in Ebbw Vale and received three standing ...
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The Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir (Welsh: Côr Meibion Froncysyllte), also known as the Fron Choir (Welsh: Côr Fron), is an amateur male voice choir based in the village of Froncysyllte (pronounced roughly vron-cuss-ulth/ tay), Wrexham County Borough, Wales, near Llangollen in Denbighshire.
Gwalia Male Choir (Welsh: Côr Meibion Gwalia) is a male voice choir based in London. Founded in 1967, it is one of London's oldest male choirs. Gwalia is an archaic Welsh name for Wales. It meets and rehearses every week in the London Welsh Centre.
Cantorion Colin Jones a Welsh concert choir founded by the late Colin Jones on the 1st September 1991 in the Lecture Theatre of Plas Coch College (later Glyndŵr University). The Choir united many of the finest singers whom Colin had taught earlier, many amongst these singers conducted in choirs across North Wales. [citation needed]