An orchestra that only started rehearsing in September will play to an audience for the first time at Swansea Minster later this month.
Cerddorfa’r Bobl, the People’s Orchestra’s new Carmarthen ensemble, joins community choirs for a two-hour Christmas concert of film music on Saturday 28 November.
Something Magical: A Film Night In starts at 4pm and runs until 6pm. Tickets are £7.50 to £10.
Hook, Monsters Inc and Fairytale of New York on the programme
The programme takes in music from Hook, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Monsters Inc.
There are Christmas songs too, among them Fairytale of New York, Wonderful Christmastime and Stop the Cavalry.
The singers come from the People’s Show Choirs, which has groups in Cardiff and Newport and a new one in Carmarthen.
Cerddorfa’r Bobl: Carmarthen’s new orchestra for players coming back to music
Cerddorfa’r Bobl began on 24 September and rehearses on Thursday evenings at St Mary’s Church in Carmarthen. Its conductor is Alex Scaife-McGee.
It is the second People’s Orchestra, after the original in Birmingham, and is run by a charity that sets up community music groups.
Will Hampson, the charity’s assistant orchestra manager, said: “This will be a debut concert to remember in Swansea that we are all excited about.”
He added: “Cerddorfa’r Bobl only recently launched so its members will take to the stage together for the first time at this beautiful and historic venue.”
The orchestra is aimed at people who want to pick their instrument back up and have reached Grade 7 or above. It is still taking new members, with rehearsals from 7pm to 9pm in term time.
The Carmarthen show choir, also led by Scaife-McGee, meets at the same church on Wednesdays from 7.30pm to 9pm.
Tickets are on sale online through Humanitix.
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