Call for singers to join massed choir at festival

A search has been launched for singers from Conwy, Gwynedd and Anglesey to join a massed choir of 200 voices to call for world peace.

The performance at Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod will pay tribute to the thousands of men, women and children massacred in the 1990s war in Bosnia and shine a light on the desperate plight of those in war-torn Ukraine.

The concert, called The White Flower: Into the Light, will be held at 8pm on Wednesday, July 5, just a few days before Srebrenica Memorial Day on July 11 to remember the 8,372 Bosnian Muslims who were massacred in in 1995.

The White Flower motif has been adopted as a symbol of remembrance in Srebrenica.

The theme was chosen to reflect the founding purpose of the Eisteddfod, established in 1947 to promote peace in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Volunteers are needed to join the huge, specially formed choir, one of the biggest ever seen in North Wales. They will be accompanied by the acclaimed NEW Sinfonia orchestra making its debut headline appearance at Llangollen Eisteddfod.

NEW Sinfonia conductor Robert Guy has issued a call for singers of all ages to sign up for the choir, with rehearsals to get under way on May 13.

He said: “It is not restricted to those with previous concert singing experience. We are opening it up to all comers, all they need is a love of singing. We need lots more singers, especially tenors and basses.”

Rehearsals will be at two hubs, one in Tŷ Pawb community arts centre, Wrexham, and the other at St Asaph Parish Church. They meet on Saturday mornings from 10am-noon. There is also a facility for people to join rehearsals via Zoom video conferencing technology.

For more details about the concert visit: international-eisteddfod. co.uk/events/wednesdayevening/ to sign up for the choir or more information email voices@ newsinfonia.org.uk and robert@newsinfonia.org. uk or call Robert Guy on 07725 050510.