Choirs and judges from as far afield as India and New Zealand will be heading to Cardiff to compete at an international competition where the judges will include a royal composer. This is the second year of the International Choral Festival which will be held at Hoddinott Hall and the Millennium Centre over the Easter weekend. The festival is the brainchild of one of Wales’ leading choirmasters, Eilir Owen Griffiths, the former musical director of the Llangollen International Music Festival….

THE Royal British Legion’s Wales Festival of Remembrance 2016 returns to St David’s Hall on Saturday 5 November with very special guest Shakin’ Stevens! In aid of the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal, the gala evening now in its 36th year will also feature the Regimental Band of the Royal Welsh conducted by Major Dennis Burton accompanied by Massed Male and Youth Choirs. Plus, the Welsh National Opera present excerpts from the First World War opera In Parenthesis, whilst there…

MEMBERS of a Cardiff children’s choir that won at the first ever Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod are still going strong as the 70th event approaches. Back in 1947, the Cardiff Snowflakes took the inaugural festival by storm, being crowned the champion children’s choir and going on to make records and tour extensively. An appeal by the Eisteddfod in Cardiff has found several of the choir members are still meeting – and still singing – almost 70 years later. Now aged…