Programme

The Fron Male Voice Choir
Male Voice Choir Champions
FOR THE choir a meeting at Seion Chapel Froncysyllte way
back in 1947 has significant importance. The village wanted to
support the newly formed Llangollen Eisteddfod, and at that meeting it
was proposed that a male voice choir was formed to compete at the 1948
eisteddfod. The Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir was formed, however
they needed 60 voices to enter the competition and despite recruiting
most of the men from the village they were still short. They turned to the
Youth Club choir and persuaded some of the youngsters to make up the
numbers.
70 years on, and two of those youngsters are still singing with the choir,
Dennis Williams, and Gren Gough. They have sung under all five of the
choir’s musical directors, and still participate and enjoy all aspects of
singing in a male voice choir.
In July this year the choir took to the stage to compete at the Llangollen
Eisteddfod and were delighted to be crowned Male Voice Choir
Champions for the 4 th time. It is an amazing achievement for these two to
be still singing at such a high standard and with such enthusiasm after 70
years.
Elin Manahan Thomas, soprano, and BBC presenter, said on BBC2 after
the Fron’s performance in Llangollen.
“It was fantastic to have the Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir here, the
local representative, but boy did they deserve their place. They had
lovely quiet controlled singing and yet they really went for it in the
bigger dynamics. I'm very impressed with this choir and I absolutely
loved their choice of repertoire”.
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