[ ClassicalX ] Fron Choir helps raise £11,000 for hospice

Best-selling choristers from Froncysyllte have helped to raise more than £11,000 for a hospice.

The famous Fron Male Voice Choir raised the cash at a charity concert at Chester Cathedral compered by actor William Roache - better known as Coronation Street veteran Ken Barlow.

The Christmas concert was attended by more than 800 people who were treated to a duet from Ann Atkinson, the Fron Choir’s artistic director, and Aled Wyn Davies, the international Welsh Tenor star who also sang several solos, and musical arrangements by Phoenix Brass, a brass quintet based in Manchester.

Chester-based King’s school Schola Cantorum also sang at the event.

Caroline Siddall, income generation manager at Nightingale House Hospice in Wrexham, which is getting the money, said: “We are extremely grateful to all the artists who made this event so successful, particularly to the Fron Choir and Mr Roache.

“We would also like to thank the volunteers who helped make this event run smoothly and to staff at Chester Cathedral for their help and advice.”

Nightingale House Hospice provides specialist palliative care service to patients and their families across a wide area

This year alone, it will cost £2.5 million to run the hospice - about £7,000 per day - and only 20 per cent of this comes from statutory government sources.

Source: Shropshire Star