Cwm Rhondda

[Hailstone47]

It's in your genes....you can't help it. You feel the hair on your arms stand up when the choirs sing and your voice rises to join in.

[lewisgale100]

Na mae chwarter Cymraeg ddim yn digon, dim yn ddigon o bell fordd i fod yn onest 'da chdi, ond galle't breddwydio.

[MrsBloomsburyBarton]

A bit less than a quarter by my reckoning. See our Ar Hyd y Nos!

[killerwelshman]

Great attempt. Nice to see the english trying to keep up with us!

You sound great boys, best of luck!

[crackpot148]

This lot pale into insignificance besides Y Côr Meibion Treorci. That's Treorchy Male Voice Choir to you.

[MrsBloomsburyBarton]

@crackpot148 I could be cruel and say the quality of your comment matches your user name! Comparing Worcester Male Voice Choir with Trorchy isn't really comparing like with like, similar to comparing a keen, well organised local church choir with the choir of King's College Chapel, Cambridge. We are a group of keen amateurs who work hard and improve as we go and as well as that, we enjoy our singing. What a pity more people don't sing themselves. Do you sing with the Treorchy?

[crackpot148]

@MrsBloomsburyBarton

Of course you're right, why wouldn't you think so? I'll concede that the recording isn't great so I'd probably be far more impressed with your performance if I heard it live.

I'm not very good at contrition but let's just say, those who can do, those who can't just listen. I'm a listener.

Since you see my comment as pejorative and of low quality, I withdraw it.

[ifuliki]

I am so proud of my Welsh Heritage although ( I am half English). The Welsh are a small nation who never conquered anyone nor lorded it over other nations but kept their language over the massive attempts of the English to destroy yr hen iaith (th old language). I love music and poetry and I am sure that my Welshness has helped in that too.

Aled

[PaulJeffreys1974]

Lovely sound.

Am 1/2 Welsh with my father being from Cardiff... Truely the Land of My Father -:o)

Pj.

[kkkathykk]

I enjoyed it very much. I love the sound of a male voice choir and I thought your choir sang it beautifully. There was a great range between the soft and lyrical, and the gutsy! It was also an arrangement that I wasn't familiar with, and that I liked very much.

[johnnee51]

Welsh and Proud.

[Musicfan121495]

I want someone's opinion. My mother's father was pure welsh. Somewhere along the line... it... dwindled... so I'm 1/4 welsh. Am I still "Welsh Enough" if you will?

[Musicfan121495]

and i love wales and i'm learning welsh. actually, i'm quite obsessed with wales. i luv it. Cymru am Byth!

[Dagvalda]

being welsh is all about believing in what you love and hold dear to your heart.

"to be born welsh, isn't to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth - but to have music in your heart, and poetry in your soul"

[Chernolapkin]

I am 1/4 Welsh myself, but whenever I hear Welsh singing, I feel my heritage swelling up inside me and while that happenst I feel pure Welsh.

[revpgesq]

@Musicfan121495 5 of my 8 great grandparents were 100%, and there are traces in the other 3 as well... and the rest is a bit American mongrel, but i know i am still Welsh enough because i do not need to ask and would be happy to get in a punch-up or thump someone with a marrow bone for doubting:-D. does that help you at all?

[3tangle3]

@Musicfan121495 ppl misunderstand the welsh SOOO bad....having ancersotrs is good for story telling.....but anyone can become welsh culturally and half of being welsh or indeed 'celtic' is but a state of mind

[3tangle3]

@Musicfan121495 ancestry is nice to have for memories..........culture is more important, all humans invited to enjoy :)

[easyTaff]

Sorry boys you don't have what we Welsh have and that is hwyl.

[erinmaxerina]

Lovely!

[JohnnyNW]

God Bless Wales!

[24greenlands]

nice tunes boys can we have it in english now...:)

[mcfcliahm]

hahaha top(Y)

[fredlark]

Competent enough . . . for an English choir. But the basses are lacking in tone. No richness. Leave it to us, will you?

[MrsBloomsburyBarton]

But half of them ARE Welsh! Who is us?

[Galericulus]

@MrsBloomsburyBarton I agree. My father sings with the Worcester male voice choir, and he comes from Treorchy!

[MrsBloomsburyBarton]

@Galericulus There's nobody in WMVC called "Galericulus :-)

[Galericulus]

@MrsBloomsburyBarton We do not all have usernames which incorporate our own names. However, if you look through your octogenarian singers you will find my father.

[MrsBloomsburyBarton]

@Galericulus Mine doesn't incorporate my own name, I wouldn't want to be saddled with that, even if I were female!

[lewisgale100]

Na dio'm yn ddigon i fod yn wir onest 'da chdi, ond gallet bredwydio.

[Whybird]

Great video. Just like the one I've got on my laptop. Guys, check out 'Anglesey Slideshow' this music plays

[MrsBloomsburyBarton]

would that be egg chasing? :-)

[Seinegydd]

I did, actually. But one chorus of "O am aros yn ei gariad ddyddiau f'oes" is not the same as hearing the whole thing in Welsh.

[MrsBloomsburyBarton]

Oh well. We do sing some other songs in Welsh:-)

[Seinegydd]

Excellent. But why can't we have this in Welsh? (Arwain, Arglwydd, drwy'r anialwch...)

[MrsBloomsburyBarton]

You haven't listened right to the end;-)