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The Welsh Male Voice Choir from Guernsey have been invited to sing at the Principality Stadium in 2020 at the final round of the Six Nations Rugby Union championship.
Wales will be playing Scotland on the day when the choir will join around 30 other choirs to sing in front of hundreds of thousands in the stands.
It's not yet known which song the group will be asked to sing when members of the choir in Guernsey will join part of a 120 strong choir in Cardiff on 14 March next year. The choir is made up of Welsh ex-pats, friends and family.
Chairman Frank Coppolo - who is originally from South Wales - said the group were honoured to have been asked to take part.
"The Guernsey Welsh Male Voice Choir (“GWMVC”) has been invited to participate as part of the 120 strong male voices, which entertain the spectators prior to international rugby games and sing the national anthems of the respective teams at the home of Welsh rugby, the Principality Stadium (formerly the Millennium Stadium) in Cardiff.
Pictured: The winning Welsh rugby team from this year's Six Nations tournament.
"They will be singing on the final day of the 2020 Six Nations Fixtures when Wales host Scotland on 14 March," he said.
GWMVC’s visit to South Wales will incorporate a joint concert with the Maesteg Gleemen Male Choir, who visited Guernsey in April 2018 as part of their 60th Anniversary celebrations, where they performed with GWMVC at St James.
"The invitation follows many weeks of discussion and which culminated in the visit to Guernsey of the organiser and conductor of the combined choirs, Mr Haydn James, who attended a practice session to assess the standard of the choir. Mr James has conducted every performance over the last 20 years since the Principality Stadium was first opened.
"GWMVC is delighted and extremely excited to have been invited to participate in support of such a prestigious sporting event and is only the fourth choir from outside Wales to be invited," said Mr Copollo.
Pictured top: The Guernsey Welsh Male Voice Choir.
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