Fron Choir third album - Home Nov 10th 2008

xcept · Last edited by xcept on Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:58 am; edited 1 time in total

The third Fron Choir CD from Universal Classics and Jazz is now "work in progress" and due for release in mid November.

annjay · Joined: Aug 01, 2008 Posts: 4

I was visiting the village of Beddgelert in the Snowdonia National Park, North Wales last Tuesday 29th July 2008 when I came across the Fron Male Voice Choir filming an Ad. for their new CD Voices of the Valley Home. They said it was to be released in November but I have since found it advertised on Play.com with October 27th as a release date. We were walking from the village towards the grave of Gelert when we saw a crowd gathering on the other side of the river. The Fron had gathered on a green and formed into a two row a semi-circle in front of some terraced houses, appropriate I suppose for an album named Home

It had been raining heavily all morning but the TV cameras were pushing ahead with the filming. The choir stood around with umbrellas and raincoats/ponchos but as the choir lined up to start rehearsals the sun started to come out. We then had an entertaining hour with the choir singing “Wonderful World”, “Home” (with Will Martin getting a solo spot in the song) and John Lennon’s “Imagine”. After such a taster I am looking forward with great anticipation to the releases.

There must be something about their singing that brings out the sun as I believe the same had happened in Chester when they did BBC2 Busking Challenge.

xcept · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:41 pm Post subject:

How wonderful annjay! Thank you for sharing the story. I'm not surprised that even the weather was brightened by the choir!! Very Happy

xcept · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:04 am Post subject:

Voices of the Valley Home

Tracklisting
1. Imagine
2. What A Wonderful World
3. Men Of Harlech
4. Green Green Grass Of Home
5. Two Little Boys * Soloist Rolf Harris
6. Calon Lan * Soloist Ceris Matthews
7. Sailing By
8. Going Home * Soloist Will Martin
9. Home
10. Myfanwy
11. Ave Maria * Soloist Ann Atkinson
12. Silent Night
13. Pie Jesu * Soloist Ann Atkinson

For song samples CLICK HERE

To order from Amazon uk CLICK HERE

xcept · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:38 am Post subject:

Two Little Boys track

Rolf Harris has been investigating his family history for a BBC documentary "My Family At War" to be broadcast as part of the 90th anniversary of the Armistice. It follows Rolf's father and uncle who fought closely alongside each other in the Great War and the story deeply reminded Rolf of the scenario depicted in the emotional lyrics of "Two Little Boys". The Fron Choir and Rolf Harris have collaborated in a new recording of his signature song "Two Little Boys" and it features on the Fron Choir's CD "Voices of the Valley - Home"

For a sample from the track and photos of Rolf with the choir CLICK HERE

Source: OS

To read more about the track in the BBC article listed in our news section CLICK HERE