Before saying anything else, I need to print a correction to last week's report. The violinist 'entertaining a spellbound audience' was in fact Hannah Lowe not Rebecca Lowe. Sorry Hannah.

We began September with a concert on the first Tuesday of the month in St. Florence church where we have not held a concert for several years now and a very nice venue it is. Although smaller than St. Mary's and St Johns in Tenby where we sing more often, the acoustics are very good and we were welcomed by a large audience.

Two of our choir members live in St. Florence. Keith Nixon was the first to join back in 1999 but within six months he introduced Paul Varallo who, of course, is now the choir's principal soloist. On the night, both Keith and Paul sang solos. Keith sang the lovely Glyn Rhosyn or Rose Valley, undaunted by some of the high notes it requires and mastered them well if the audience response was anything to go by.

Principal soloist Paul sang two songs in his customary polished manner these being Aderyn Pur (the white dove) and Bless this House.

Financially, the concert was a success as the church warden announced that over £600 had been raised for church funds from the evening. All was not over in St. Florence, however, as we retired to the Parsonage Inn afterwards to carry on singing and were treated to a delicious spread of cordon bleu sandwiches by proprietors Mark and Sue.

On Thursday in St. Mary's, we held a concert for choir funds and it was once again an excellent concert performance in the opinion of our musical director Ian 'Wilbur' Williams. The concert featured a solo performance by Eddie Stapleton one of the choir senior members. Normally audiences only get the chance to enjoy hearing Eddie when we sing at the Giltar Hotel. He is renowned for his stand up comedy act, including his risque tale of Pittie the little snake who likes to hiss in his pit but in this case he performed the amusing but poignant monologue 'Brahn Boots' made famous by Stanley Holloway, getting loud applause and perhaps evoking the odd tear here and there with this tale of a man, ostracised by family and friends for turning up to a funeral in brown boots, when in fact unknown to all he had given away his black boots to someone with no boots at all.

In a full programme the audience were also treated to a delightful solo performance by Rhian Morgan who sang Wishing you were here again. From the Phantom of the Opera, I Wish you Love, a song originally written in French by Charles Trenet and Rhian finished off with the stirring You Raise me Up.

Completing the trio of solo performances was main soloist Paul Varallo who sang Suo Gan, Stars from Les Miserables, and Turna a Surriento. Paul has distant roots in the Sorrento area of Italy but is keen to point out they were not associated with the Cosa Nostra and we believe him. But it was certainly 'an offer we couldn't refuse' when Paul became our soloist. We have come to almost take it for granted that Paul will perform to a high standard and this was no exception.

Next week on Wednesday, September 18, we will be holding a concert in the Tenby Golf Club which we are all looking forward to.

We will have rehearsals on Tuesday and Thursday next week and visitors or potential new members are always welcome to come and watch. There is also information about the choir on our web site http://www.tenbymalechoir.org">www.tenbymalechoir.org and a Facebook account (just do an internet search for Tenby Male Choir Facebook) or you can get more information on anything about the choir on (01834) 813198.