December 7th 2002
We are pleased to bring you some pictures from St David's Christmas Praise which took place at St David's Hall, Cardiff on Saturday December 7th. This year for the first time we launched out and tried to meet the growing demand for tickets by holding 2 performances, at 3.30 and 7.30.
Almost all the seats were sold and the atmosphere was electric - enhanced by the newly formed St David's Praise Youth Choir - nearly 150 children aged 6-16, from various churches in South Wales (plus one school group). Directed by Anne Brown, they sang some super songs ranging from "Do you Hear What I Hear?" to Graham Kendrick's "What Kind of Greatness" and "This Child." They brought the house down with a Mexican carol, "Feliz Navidad," then melted hearts with the beautiful Mark and Helen Johnson song, "We have Found Him," complete with "signing" actions. The youngsters had only met together 5 times to prepare for the event and the end result was remarkable.
Kelvin Thomas and Jeffrey Howard directed the 350 strong adult choir who sang and led the audience in singing new and traditional songs.
The orchestra's input included "Waltz of the Flowers" from Nutcracker and "Walking in the Air" from The Snowman, with solo by Bethan Diaz.
Rev James Brown from Porthcawl was the guest speaker and he brought some illustrated Christmas messages. Guest appearances from "Fred and 'Arry," two janitors from the Hall, (alias James Brown and his friend Nigel Irwin!) made the audience think about how prone people are to believe anything but the truth.
And so a good time was had by all! We hope those who were there will enjoy reminiscing though these photos - and those who weren't there - make a date for May 10th!
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