Welsh song in the heart of England
As usual we enjoyed singing at the Open Day held at St John the Baptist Church, Fleet Street, Coventry as part of Coventry’s Heritage Open Days. Afterwards we enjoyed some Vietnamese cuisine at Taste Vietnam in nearby Spon Street.
We enjoyed singing at an anti-racism event at the Backhaus Cafe in Fargo Village on May 1. We supported a number of local artists including the Notables Foundation and met singers from Kenya and instrumentalists from Switzerland. And as well as that our singing was described as “cowin’ lush!”, admittedly from a Welsh friend of ours.
Last weekend was a busy one for the Côr – on Saturday we sang at UMCM‘s Christmas concert and on Sunday we sang at the Tin Music and Arts Open Mic. We enjoyed both nights so thank you especially to Lizzie and Mary from UMCM and Ben from the Tin.
We returned to St John the Baptist Church, Coventry for their Christmas Fete and shared the stage with the Medieval Boyz and Thrup’nny Bits. It’s a lovely church and a great acoustic for music, and we look forward to going back soon. Next stop is the UMCM Christmas Concert on Saturday December 8th, Earlsdon Park Village at 7pm.
It was great to sing again at St John the Baptist Church, Fleet Street, Coventry. The church is beautiful and has a lovely acoustic so we didn’t want to stop singing, and when they closed for the day we went to the pub and carried on singing there – until the landlord asked us to stop! Shame as we had just got chatting to a guy whose dad was from the Rhondda Fach, but maybe we’re not quite as good as we thought we were!
Côr Cymraeg Coventry are singing a few songs at St John the Baptist Church, Coventry tomorrow during a day of quiet reflection. At 1pm there will be a service at the church including a full roll call of all parishioners who were killed in action in World War 1. We expect to sing sometime after 2.
Preparations are under way for entering the Say Something In Welsh online Eisteddfod. We can’t say too much at the moment but we hope to compete in both the individual and group competitions. Bring it on! Say Something In Welsh is a leading course for learning natural spoken Welsh with confidence.
Côr Cymraeg Coventry would like to welcome two new singers, Trevor and Ágnes. It’s a pleasure to have you both in the group and we hope you enjoy singing with us.
We had a good workout at CharterHouse Priory Coventry as we sang on both Saturday and Sunday, their open days being part of Coventry’s Heritage Open Weekend. It was a privilege on Saturday to be joined by Ágnes sight reading, and Sunday was lovely too as we sang in the back garden while revivalists spun wool, made clay pots, made arrows and rehearsed sword fighting moves.
We enjoyed ourselves at the last two Cambrian Society events – a Noson Lawen in February and the St David’s Day Dinner last weekend. The Society let us sing six songs and were very complimentary! Thank you to Peter and the Cambrian Society for the opportunities to sing to people from all over Wales and some from England too. Here’s a link to find out more about the society.