Llanelli Choral Society scoops Welsh award
A prestigious national music award has been awarded to a Llanelli choral society for its leading development and contribution to amateur music making in Wales. The Llanelli Choral Society are winners of the highly prestigious 2010 W.S.Gwynn Williams Award, awarded by the Welsh Amateur Music Federation, to the musical organisation from across the whole of Wales that has made the greatest progress and contribution to amateur music making in Wales in recent years. Key winning attributes for the Llanelli Choral Society in winning the award were the society’s musical capability and choral standards, recruitment and development and particularly the value of the Society to its local community. “This is a great and prestigious honour for the society”, explained society chairman Cerith Owens. “It is a positive recognition of the hard work of the choristers and organisers as well as the exciting developments, performances and activities driven forward by the society and its contribution to its c...