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Comments
If you would like to leave any comments about the choir please email the address below and your comments will be
published in due course: brythoniaid@btinternet.com
I wanted to say how much we appreciated listening to the Choir on Thursday. We were quite amazed by the quality of
the singing and feel sure you will do very well in the competitions. Please extend our sincere thanks to everyone. I
would really like to attend one of your concerts, perhaps you could let me know where and when your performances
will be.
It really made my week to hear such an outstanding Male Voice Choir, it was pure joy to listen to.
With kind regards
Janice Ballard
My husband Spence and I are writing to send you our heartfelt thanks for this email, with its thorough list of male
voice choir rehearsals open to the public, during the days of our trip to north Wales.
We are just back in California from a very successful two week visit to the UK, half of the time in Wales. Truly, a
highlight of the entire trip was attending a rehearsal of this excellent choir, on Thursday, April 28.
What an excellent choir! The singing was beautiful and very moving. We spoke to the conductor, John Eifion Jones, the
excellent accompanist, Elizabeth Ellis and quite a few members of the choir. During the first half of the rehearsal, the
choir worked on three pieces they will be performing at a competition in the summer. After a break, the choir
performed some of their "standards," including an "American medley" that I am sure was chosen for us and one other
American couple who were visiting. We loved the evening and will always remember it. I have always dreamed of
hearing a Welsh male voice choir. This was a dream come true. Thank you very much.
By the way, I am sure there are many visitors to Wales who would enjoy attending a rehearsal. Perhaps you could post
on line the rehearsal schedule of the various choirs around Wales, with a note saying that the schedule is subject to
change.
Kind regards
Ruth and Spence
Festival No. 6 2015
1. Getintothis magazine.
This is a festival full of surprises with something for everyone. It is spectacularly well organised without appearing so.
Clean and tidy with excellent facilities, grown up, mature but also young, fresh and fun. Through it all, it remains
inherently Welsh and incredibly proud of it (rightly so!), with the Welsh language filling the festival. With not a
miserable face in sight, this is a proud county and full of patriots. One lady we encountered draped in a fully sequined
Welsh flag gown and looked so fantastic that we felt serious dress and country envy!
We could go on for days about the extraordinary Brythoniaid Welsh Male Voice Choir. Their colossal sound soared
over the sea of faces that filled The Central Piazza the crowd stood shoulder to shoulder as did the choir, these guys
really were the giants of the weekend putting a spin on songs by Elbow and New Order like only The Brythoniaid Welsh
Male Voice Choir can. It was a truly magical moment that even the rain that uncharacteristically only made an
appearance once couldn’t dampen.
Each and every year we rave about the Brythoniaid Welsh Male Voice Choir – and this year was no different; they
embody everything that’s special about this patriotic, heart-on-the-sleeve yet fiercely different little festival.
2. Guardian
The celestial voices of Festival No 6 stalwarts the Brythoniaid Male Voice Choir made repeat appearances, including
soundtracking a production of Under Milk Wood and, on Sunday, dedicating You’ll Never Walk Alone to the Welsh
football team.
3. Four traders
One of the stars of Festival No 6 once again were Cor y Brythoniaid from Blaenau Ffestiniog. The 50-strong choir were
one of the first acts signed up for the inaugural event in 2012 and a fixture ever since. They sang to a packed Central
Piazza in the drizzle on Friday and in the sunshine yesterday afternoon. They also played a leading musical role in an
adaptation of Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas on Saturday evening.
4. Huw Thomas : BBC Wales Arts and Culture Correspondent.
@huwthomas: In Portmeirion @festivalnumber6 continues - Côr y Brythoniaid among the favourites last night
http://t.co/PXGV0dyWhn
5. Gig wise News
But Festival No.6 is never better than when it delivers the kind of entertainment that you simply wouldn't find
anywhere else. The Brythoniaid Male Voice Choir have been a permanent fixture in Portmeirion since the first festival;
always drawing huge and emotionally charged crowds to the Central Piazza. Traditional Welsh battle songs such as
Men of Harlech stirred the blood of the significant Welsh-speaking contingent here, while their take on songs by Muse
and Elbow were pleasingly anachronistic while sounding superb to boot. When they closed with Welsh national
anthem Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau (Land of my Fathers) a wonderfully surreal candlelit procession ushered revelers toward
Stage No.6 for Metronomy's headline set.
6. Eryl Crump : Daily Post
A 50-strong male voice choir from just a few miles away proved to be the stars of the show once again as the fourth
Festival No 6 got underway in the picturesque surroundings of Portmeirion.
Cor y Brythoniaid from Blaenau Ffestiniog - one of the first acts signed up for the inaugural event in 2012 and a fixture
ever since - sang to a packed central piazza in Clough Williams-Ellis' Italianate village.
Festival No 6: Cor y Brythoniaid pack Portmeirion piazza with rousing performance
Their set included the famous cover of New Order's Blue Monday, which they first performed at the first No 6 in
honour of that year's headliners.
Despite the song's complexities, and the persistent rain which forced accompanist Elizabeth Ellis to shelter under a
plastic sheet at times, the choir gave a rousing performance.
But an even better performance was to follow when they sung their version of another hit by a Manchester band.
The choir gave as good a performance of Elbow’s One Day Like This as the Mancunians themselves, giving the song a
new dimension.
It was said that two members of the band were at Portmeirion and could have been in the audience, but it was
difficult to tell as there were so many people packed into the piazza.
7. Nia Jones : Arts and Food PR.
@NiaJon: Biggest crowd puller of @festivalnumber6 . @Brythoniaid Choir with a brilliant @Elbow cover. Best one to
date http://t.co/fjdemnGbQx
8. Youtube clips of Choir singing ” One Day Like this ” (sound good, but video a bit hazy)
https://youtu.be/d19RHHYTxe0
This clip, although the sound is not the best, gives an idea of the numbers present !!
https://youtu.be/eu77L6lpcig
Festival No. 6 2014
1. The big boys have a ball in glorious Portmeirion but as Getintothis Peter Guy reflects it’s the Welsh wonders that
truly take centre stage.
National pride and independence is at the forefront of the news agenda and it seemed fitting that Getintothis closed
our festival season at No. 6.
For here is a happening which slaps the slogan ‘a festival unlike any other, in a place like no other’ right across it’s
forehead. And with good reason. From its setting in the whacked-out fantasy idyll of Portmeirion to the Llwyfan Clough
stage promoting home grown talent through to the markets stuffed with locally-sourced produce and the daffodil-
sporting Brythoniaid Male Voice Choir, No. 6 is Welsh to it’s core - and therein lies its magic. Here is an event which
revels in its identity; cheekily plays with its TV Prisoner theme, thrusts to the fore its quite magnificent landscape
hosting stages in the most otherworldly of spots and best of all places a firm emphasis on being proud of it’s heritage
and artistic riches.
The aforementioned Brythoniaid Welsh Male Voice Choir, celebrating their 50th anniversary, are pivotal to the festival’s
ethos. Playing sets across all three nights, they rouse audiences into beaming grins and tear-glistening eyes on each
occasion, blending the likes of O Sole Mio with Myfanwy and a belting version of The Pet Shop Boys’ Go West all the
while being bathed in gigantic bubbles which fall from above the Greco-Roman Central Piazza. What could be
sentimentally naff is quite the opposite, and provides one of the most heartwarming musical moments of 2014.
2. But our festival of 2014 honour belongs to an event which goes way beyond a strong bill of musicians.
The town of Portmeirion is a cosmic delight in itself and what the organisers of Festival No. 6 have done is aligned the
geographical wonders and first-rate artistic craft to something intangible that courses through the Welsh spirit. It
positively swells with communal, good-times vibes.
Beck, Grumbling Fur, Steve Mason, Martha Reeves, Jon Hopkins, All We Are and more made this an unforgettable
experience but the civic pride epitomised in the Brythoniaid Welsh Male Voice Choir, who, celebrating their 50th
anniversary, delivered one of the sets of any summer at one of the most enjoyable festivals we’ve ever experienced.
Revelatory. Stunning. How all festivals should aspire to be.
Paste Magazine
Wow! The Choir version of Good Times has topped the Charts, beating very esteemed company of the Red Army Choir
and Vienna Boys Choir in the process. For more information please follow this link. This is something to be very proud
of.
The Silent Radio
Once again we hang about at the Central Piazza for The Brythoniaid Male Voice Choir who were here last year with
their rendition of New Order’s Blue Monday. This year they are taking on Chic’s Good times. All but two of the set are
covers that they have reworked for the fifty strong choir. We’re stood right at the front so any sound coming from the
PA is going straight over our heads and all that we’re hearing is coming direct from the mouths of the choir, and it’s
stunning. I take a look back at the Piazza to see if the place is still full, only to find that it’s now bursting at the seams,
every little nook, cranny, wall and bench is filled. They close with the Welsh national anthem, and to my surprise,
almost everyone around us (I think we’re stood with the choir’s families and friends) joins in at full volume. At the end
there’s even a few chants of Oggy Oggy Oggy from the crowd.
National Student Magazine
Brythoniad Welsh Male Voice Choir - Yes, a traditional male voice choir beats the competition to sit in our ‘highlights’
list. After being one of the surprise hits last year, with their colossal version of New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ the classic
Welsh voice choir drew increasingly growing crowds over their three nightly sets. The pure power of the human voice
is impressive, and brings appreciation from the accepting crowd. Bringing in modern renditions to the set makes it
relatable to all the crowd – Chic’s ‘Good Times’ and an improved version of ‘Blue Monday’ bring the house down (well
not a house, as it is in the beautifully lit outdoor Piaza). On the Friday night set we see they end with an epic version of
Muse’s ‘Uprising’ to rapturous applause. The openness to embrace different sounds and ideas is what makes Festival
No 6 so interesting, and this set is one of its shining examples.
London Magazine
Back in town at the amphitheatre, where spoken word, poetry, comedy and acoustic acts performed all day, we were
surprised by a spectacular performance of the Brythoniaid Welsh Male Voice Choir. Already a huge hit at last year’s
inaugural Festival No.6, the choir performed some traditional hymns before it came out with some quite incredible
versions of “Kumbaya”, Chic’s “Good Times”, New Order’s “Blue Monday” and Muse’s “Uprising”. The setting, the
atmosphere, the music – it was just one of those once in a lifetime festival moments that you will never forget. Truly
magical indeed
Entertainment Review
The stand-out act, however, were undoubtedly the tuxedo-clad Brythoniaid Welsh Male Voice Choir, who apparently
stole the show last year as well. Their gorgeous interpretations of Welsh hymns and dignified covers of the likes of
Chic’s Good Times and New Order’s Blue Monday are crowd-pleasing in the best possible way, and the memory of
them atop the pillared Bristol Colonnade in the village gardens, their voices projecting out into the seascape, is
unforgettable. - See more here
TUSK Journal Review - The Six Best Things about Festival No 6
No.5 - Choir
The Welsh may be famous for a lot of things (think rugby, Catherine Zeta Jones and a love for all things livestock), but
in this particular area of North Wales, it was the voice of the Brythoniaid Male Voice Choir that bathed in the limelight.
Performing at the Central Piazza within the heart of the Village, the 60-member choir delivered one of this year’s most
intimate, distinctive and special productions. Between a wonderful rendition of ‘Kumbaya’ and ‘Land of my Fathers’,
the gentlemen of Brythoniaid performed one of their latest festival commissions, Chic’s ‘Good Times’. With baritones
blending the traditional with the contemporary, the Brythoniaid Male Voice Choir produced a spectacle like no other,
with punters balancing between stonewalls and perching upon the cliffs in their attempts to capture this unforgettable
moment in this festival’s folklore.
The Independent Newspaper
As night fell and the moon rose, the choir – last year’s surprise hit – showed off its range with moving versions of
“Kumbaya” and traditional hymns, before bringing out the big guns with covers of Chic’s “Good Times”, New Order’s
“Blue Monday” (so popular last year that it went viral online) and Muse’s “Uprising”. A true highlight of the weekend,
the magical experience repeated on Sunday.
The Guardian
No 6, the Prisoner-themed festival season closer held in the bijou Italianate village of Portmeirion, produced unlikely
heroes: the security guard cajoled into joining the impromptu ukulele orchestra on the ornate colonnade; the Tron
drum troupe leading Saturday's dusk procession and their robot marchers, neon tubes on every limb; the 50s
housewives singing calypso tunes from a dinghy in the fountains and the Brythonthiaid male voice choir, welcomed to
the piazza stage for their choral covers of Chic, New Order and Muse so rapturously you'd think David Bowie had
joined.
Côr y Brythoniaid © 2024
Website designed and maintained by H G Web Designs
Comments
If you would like to leave any comments about
the choir please email the address below and
your comments will be published in due course:
brythoniaid@btinternet.com
I wanted to say how much we appreciated
listening to the Choir on Thursday. We were quite
amazed by the quality of the singing and feel sure
you will do very well in the competitions. Please
extend our sincere thanks to everyone. I would
really like to attend one of your concerts, perhaps
you could let me know where and when your
performances will be.
It really made my week to hear such an
outstanding Male Voice Choir, it was pure joy to
listen to.
With kind regards
Janice Ballard
My husband Spence and I are writing to send you
our heartfelt thanks for this email, with its
thorough list of male voice choir rehearsals open
to the public, during the days of our trip to north
Wales.
We are just back in California from a very
successful two week visit to the UK, half of the
time in Wales. Truly, a highlight of the entire trip
was attending a rehearsal of this excellent choir,
on Thursday, April 28.
What an excellent choir! The singing was
beautiful and very moving. We spoke to the
conductor, John Eifion Jones, the excellent
accompanist, Elizabeth Ellis and quite a few
members of the choir. During the first half of the
rehearsal, the choir worked on three pieces they
will be performing at a competition in the
summer. After a break, the choir performed some
of their "standards," including an "American
medley" that I am sure was chosen for us and
one other American couple who were visiting. We
loved the evening and will always remember it. I
have always dreamed of hearing a Welsh male
voice choir. This was a dream come true. Thank
you very much.
By the way, I am sure there are many visitors to
Wales who would enjoy attending a rehearsal.
Perhaps you could post on line the rehearsal
schedule of the various choirs around Wales, with
a note saying that the schedule is subject to
change.
Kind regards
Ruth and Spence
Festival No. 6 2015
1. Getintothis magazine.
This is a festival full of surprises with something
for everyone. It is spectacularly well organised
without appearing so. Clean and tidy with
excellent facilities, grown up, mature but also
young, fresh and fun. Through it all, it remains
inherently Welsh and incredibly proud of it (rightly
so!), with the Welsh language filling the festival.
With not a miserable face in sight, this is a proud
county and full of patriots. One lady we
encountered draped in a fully sequined Welsh flag
gown and looked so fantastic that we felt serious
dress and country envy!
We could go on for days about the extraordinary
Brythoniaid Welsh Male Voice Choir. Their
colossal sound soared over the sea of faces that
filled The Central Piazza the crowd stood shoulder
to shoulder as did the choir, these guys really
were the giants of the weekend putting a spin on
songs by Elbow and New Order like only The
Brythoniaid Welsh Male Voice Choir can. It was a
truly magical moment that even the rain that
uncharacteristically only made an appearance
once couldn’t dampen.
Each and every year we rave about the
Brythoniaid Welsh Male Voice Choir – and this
year was no different; they embody everything
that’s special about this patriotic, heart-on-the-
sleeve yet fiercely different little festival.
2. Guardian
The celestial voices of Festival No 6 stalwarts the
Brythoniaid Male Voice Choir made repeat
appearances, including soundtracking a
production of Under Milk Wood and, on Sunday,
dedicating You’ll Never Walk Alone to the Welsh
football team.
3. Four traders
One of the stars of Festival No 6 once again were
Cor y Brythoniaid from Blaenau Ffestiniog. The
50-strong choir were one of the first acts signed
up for the inaugural event in 2012 and a fixture
ever since. They sang to a packed Central Piazza
in the drizzle on Friday and in the sunshine
yesterday afternoon. They also played a leading
musical role in an adaptation of Under Milk Wood
by Dylan Thomas on Saturday evening.
4. Huw Thomas : BBC Wales Arts and Culture
Correspondent.
@huwthomas: In Portmeirion @festivalnumber6
continues - Côr y Brythoniaid among the
favourites last night http://t.co/PXGV0dyWhn
5. Gig wise News
But Festival No.6 is never better than when it
delivers the kind of entertainment that you simply
wouldn't find anywhere else. The Brythoniaid
Male Voice Choir have been a permanent fixture
in Portmeirion since the first festival; always
drawing huge and emotionally charged crowds to
the Central Piazza. Traditional Welsh battle songs
such as Men of Harlech stirred the blood of the
significant Welsh-speaking contingent here, while
their take on songs by Muse and Elbow were
pleasingly anachronistic while sounding superb to
boot. When they closed with Welsh national
anthem Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau (Land of my
Fathers) a wonderfully surreal candlelit
procession ushered revelers toward Stage No.6
for Metronomy's headline set.
6. Eryl Crump : Daily Post
A 50-strong male voice choir from just a few miles
away proved to be the stars of the show once
again as the fourth Festival No 6 got underway in
the picturesque surroundings of Portmeirion.
Cor y Brythoniaid from Blaenau Ffestiniog - one of
the first acts signed up for the inaugural event in
2012 and a fixture ever since - sang to a packed
central piazza in Clough Williams-Ellis' Italianate
village.
Festival No 6: Cor y Brythoniaid pack Portmeirion
piazza with rousing performance
Their set included the famous cover of New
Order's Blue Monday, which they first performed
at the first No 6 in honour of that year's
headliners.
Despite the song's complexities, and the
persistent rain which forced accompanist
Elizabeth Ellis to shelter under a plastic sheet at
times, the choir gave a rousing performance.
But an even better performance was to follow
when they sung their version of another hit by a
Manchester band.
The choir gave as good a performance of Elbow’s
One Day Like This as the Mancunians themselves,
giving the song a new dimension.
It was said that two members of the band were at
Portmeirion and could have been in the audience,
but it was difficult to tell as there were so many
people packed into the piazza.
7. Nia Jones : Arts and Food PR.
@NiaJon: Biggest crowd puller of
@festivalnumber6 . @Brythoniaid Choir with a
brilliant @Elbow cover. Best one to date
http://t.co/fjdemnGbQx
8. Youtube clips of Choir singing ” One Day Like
this ” (sound good, but video a bit hazy)
https://youtu.be/d19RHHYTxe0
This clip, although the sound is not the best, gives
an idea of the numbers present !!
https://youtu.be/eu77L6lpcig
Festival No. 6 2014
1. The big boys have a ball in glorious Portmeirion
but as Getintothis Peter Guy reflects it’s the Welsh
wonders that truly take centre stage.
National pride and independence is at the
forefront of the news agenda and it seemed
fitting that Getintothis closed our festival season
at No. 6.
For here is a happening which slaps the slogan ‘a
festival unlike any other, in a place like no other’
right across it’s forehead. And with good reason.
From its setting in the whacked-out fantasy idyll
of Portmeirion to the Llwyfan Clough stage
promoting home grown talent through to the
markets stuffed with locally-sourced produce and
the daffodil-sporting Brythoniaid Male Voice
Choir, No. 6 is Welsh to it’s core - and therein lies
its magic. Here is an event which revels in its
identity; cheekily plays with its TV Prisoner theme,
thrusts to the fore its quite magnificent landscape
hosting stages in the most otherworldly of spots
and best of all places a firm emphasis on being
proud of it’s heritage and artistic riches.
The aforementioned Brythoniaid Welsh Male
Voice Choir, celebrating their 50th anniversary,
are pivotal to the festival’s ethos. Playing sets
across all three nights, they rouse audiences into
beaming grins and tear-glistening eyes on each
occasion, blending the likes of O Sole Mio with
Myfanwy and a belting version of The Pet Shop
Boys’ Go West all the while being bathed in
gigantic bubbles which fall from above the Greco-
Roman Central Piazza. What could be
sentimentally naff is quite the opposite, and
provides one of the most heartwarming musical
moments of 2014.
2. But our festival of 2014 honour belongs to an
event which goes way beyond a strong bill of
musicians.
The town of Portmeirion is a cosmic delight in
itself and what the organisers of Festival No. 6
have done is aligned the geographical wonders
and first-rate artistic craft to something intangible
that courses through the Welsh spirit. It positively
swells with communal, good-times vibes.
Beck, Grumbling Fur, Steve Mason, Martha
Reeves, Jon Hopkins, All We Are and more made
this an unforgettable experience but the civic
pride epitomised in the Brythoniaid Welsh Male
Voice Choir, who, celebrating their 50th
anniversary, delivered one of the sets of any
summer at one of the most enjoyable festivals
we’ve ever experienced.
Revelatory. Stunning. How all festivals should
aspire to be.
Paste Magazine
Wow! The Choir version of Good Times has
topped the Charts, beating very esteemed
company of the Red Army Choir and Vienna Boys
Choir in the process. For more information please
follow this link. This is something to be very proud
of.
The Silent Radio
Once again we hang about at the Central Piazza
for The Brythoniaid Male Voice Choir who were
here last year with their rendition of New Order’s
Blue Monday. This year they are taking on Chic’s
Good times. All but two of the set are covers that
they have reworked for the fifty strong choir.
We’re stood right at the front so any sound
coming from the PA is going straight over our
heads and all that we’re hearing is coming direct
from the mouths of the choir, and it’s stunning. I
take a look back at the Piazza to see if the place is
still full, only to find that it’s now bursting at the
seams, every little nook, cranny, wall and bench is
filled. They close with the Welsh national anthem,
and to my surprise, almost everyone around us (I
think we’re stood with the choir’s families and
friends) joins in at full volume. At the end there’s
even a few chants of Oggy Oggy Oggy from the
crowd.
National Student Magazine
Brythoniad Welsh Male Voice Choir - Yes, a
traditional male voice choir beats the competition
to sit in our ‘highlights’ list. After being one of the
surprise hits last year, with their colossal version
of New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ the classic Welsh
voice choir drew increasingly growing crowds over
their three nightly sets. The pure power of the
human voice is impressive, and brings
appreciation from the accepting crowd. Bringing
in modern renditions to the set makes it relatable
to all the crowd – Chic’s ‘Good Times’ and an
improved version of ‘Blue Monday’ bring the
house down (well not a house, as it is in the
beautifully lit outdoor Piaza). On the Friday night
set we see they end with an epic version of Muse’s
‘Uprising’ to rapturous applause. The openness to
embrace different sounds and ideas is what
makes Festival No 6 so interesting, and this set is
one of its shining examples.
London Magazine
Back in town at the amphitheatre, where spoken
word, poetry, comedy and acoustic acts
performed all day, we were surprised by a
spectacular performance of the Brythoniaid
Welsh Male Voice Choir. Already a huge hit at last
year’s inaugural Festival No.6, the choir
performed some traditional hymns before it came
out with some quite incredible versions of
“Kumbaya”, Chic’s “Good Times”, New Order’s
“Blue Monday” and Muse’s “Uprising”. The setting,
the atmosphere, the music – it was just one of
those once in a lifetime festival moments that you
will never forget. Truly magical indeed
Entertainment Review
The stand-out act, however, were undoubtedly
the tuxedo-clad Brythoniaid Welsh Male Voice
Choir, who apparently stole the show last year as
well. Their gorgeous interpretations of Welsh
hymns and dignified covers of the likes of Chic’s
Good Times and New Order’s Blue Monday are
crowd-pleasing in the best possible way, and the
memory of them atop the pillared Bristol
Colonnade in the village gardens, their voices
projecting out into the seascape, is unforgettable.
- See more here
TUSK Journal Review - The Six Best Things
about Festival No 6
No.5 - Choir
The Welsh may be famous for a lot of things
(think rugby, Catherine Zeta Jones and a love for
all things livestock), but in this particular area of
North Wales, it was the voice of the Brythoniaid
Male Voice Choir that bathed in the limelight.
Performing at the Central Piazza within the heart
of the Village, the 60-member choir delivered one
of this year’s most intimate, distinctive and special
productions. Between a wonderful rendition of
‘Kumbaya’ and ‘Land of my Fathers’, the
gentlemen of Brythoniaid performed one of their
latest festival commissions, Chic’s ‘Good Times’.
With baritones blending the traditional with the
contemporary, the Brythoniaid Male Voice Choir
produced a spectacle like no other, with punters
balancing between stonewalls and perching upon
the cliffs in their attempts to capture this
unforgettable moment in this festival’s folklore.
The Independent Newspaper
As night fell and the moon rose, the choir – last
year’s surprise hit – showed off its range with
moving versions of “Kumbaya” and traditional
hymns, before bringing out the big guns with
covers of Chic’s “Good Times”, New Order’s “Blue
Monday” (so popular last year that it went viral
online) and Muse’s “Uprising”. A true highlight of
the weekend, the magical experience repeated on
Sunday.
The Guardian
No 6, the Prisoner-themed festival season closer
held in the bijou Italianate village of Portmeirion,
produced unlikely heroes: the security guard
cajoled into joining the impromptu ukulele
orchestra on the ornate colonnade; the Tron
drum troupe leading Saturday's dusk procession
and their robot marchers, neon tubes on every
limb; the 50s housewives singing calypso tunes
from a dinghy in the fountains and the
Brythonthiaid male voice choir, welcomed to the
piazza stage for their choral covers of Chic, New
Order and Muse so rapturously you'd think David
Bowie had joined.