The Guelph Chamber Choir is doing a tour to the United Kingdom in July. The highlight will be participating in the Llangollen International Eisteddfod.
Each July around 4,000 competitors and as many as 50,000 visitors visit Llangollen. Each evening renowned artists, present concerts on the main stage.
The festival has taken place every summer since 1947 and is part of a uniquely Welsh tradition of Eisteddfod that can be traced back to 1176, under the auspices of Lord Rhys, at his castle in Cardigan.
Participation at the festival is by invitation only.
The Guelph Chamber Choir will compete in the mixed choirs class. Each choir presents a contrasting program of up to 11 minutes of music, including at least one original composition composed after 1962. The winner will be invited to compete in the Pavarotti Choir of the world competition at the Saturday concert of the Eisteddfod.
The Guelph choir will perform Leonard Enns’s Te Deum Brevis by Kurt Bestor and the Ottawa valley folk song Les Raftsmen, arranged by Ruth Watson Henderson.
Other tour highlights include a performance at Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament, in honour of this year’s Royal Jubilee celebrations, and performances at Shewsbury, Coventry, and Derby Cathedrals, and the Cathedral of the Peak in Buxton.
The touring choir will give a farewell concert on June 23, at 7:30pm in Harcourt Memorial United Church a week before flying to London on June 30.
Tickets are $15 each and young adults 30 and under pay $10. It is $5 for youth with the eyeGO program.
Single tickets are available through choir or board members, or at the door. Visit www.guelphchamberchoir.ca or call 519-836-5103 for information.
