Blackstone - Ipswich Cambrian Choir Inc.

 

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Youth Choir - Mission

Mission

The cambrian Youth Choir provides young people of Ipswich with a safe environment to nurture their love of music in a team exercise. It widens their circle of peers from which friendships form with consequent enrichment of their lives outside and beyond their choir and school environments. It enhances them for life in their chosen career by being a team player, a communicator. It fosters respect and instills self-confidence through performance under the pressure of competition and public performance.

Resultant success brings its own challenges by teaching youth to cope with victory and the expected maintainance of that standard. Also there is the experience of handling defeat and how to graciously cope with not winning. The Cambrian Youth Choir is a positive statement to our community of the quality and attitude of teenagers in this generation and the contribution they make for the good of us all.

Who we are

Since 1969 the Cambrian Youth choir has displayed their special disticnctive music both inter and intra state. The welsh heritage is always evident and cannoth be ignored.

It blossomed at the end of the 19th century when Welsh miners from Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales, together with others from the coal mining districs of South Wales, immigrated to Australia and sought work in the coal mining district of Ipswich. These people from the "Land of Song" began the Eisteddfod movement which has given rise to the cultural richness which has been moulded into the artistic and musical treasure that is displayed by the Youth Sector of this, the longest continuous-running Choral organisation in Australia.

The un-auditioned membership of the Cambrian Youth Choir is drawn from a vast area of south-eastern Queensland and incorporates both female and male voices of young people ranging in age from 12 to 19 years.

Official adjudicator at Eisteddofdeau, Peta Blythe from New south Wales comments that this choir is unique to Australia, in that its part singing spans all voices, Sopranos, Altos, Tenors and Basses.