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Live Performance
a cappella 4-part Male Chorus
Oll an Gwella are a bunch of beauties! All members of Newquay Male Voice Choir, their choristers’ current repertoire consists of over 100 songs including Shanties, Cornish folk, 1960s classics, seasonal & sacred music.
Their 4-part harmony and infectious humour has brought them popularity as their repertoire and reputation have grown. Entertaining for pleasure, they raise thousands of pounds for voluntary, charity & community groups. £1200 profit from donations and their first CD was donated to “The Cove†Cancer Centre and further donations have been made to RNLI and Cornwall Blood Bikes (who have received more than £3400 as their current charity). Live broadcasts on local radio and a recording by ‘Spotlight’ for BBC Television followed. Singing from the main stages at Shows and Festivals across Cornwall they have also exported their distinctive harmonies across Southern England and South Wales. Invites to France saw performances in St Malo, Dinard and the prestigious “Festival Interceltique de Lorientâ€, where they enjoyed 16 performances at one of the largest music festivals in Europe. Equally at home singing on elaborate festival sound stages or on the deck of the “Cutty Sark†and at Salisbury Cathedral, they also take their choral entertainment to weddings, “Memory Cafesâ€, nursing-homes and schools where choral workshops encourage children’s singing.
Converted Stone Quarry, modified to become an open air Methodist Preaching Pit in 1852, refurbished 2003.
Constructed from earth and moorstone, this open air theatre has 7 grades of seats formed in an excavation around a
circular orchestra, capable of holding 2000 persons.
On the east side a semicircular pulpit platform springs from the 3rd grade.
The upper grades are supported on a Cornish hedge compensating for the fall in the ground.
Preaching pits found favour with John Wesley for their direct simplicity and egalitarianism after his successful mission to Gwennap mine in 1762. Only three such pits now survive.
With input from Newquay Male Voice Choir and youngsters from both Trenance and St Newlyn East Learning Academies
Cargoll Road,
Newlyn East,
Cornwall,
England,
TR8 5LB.
