{"id":1624,"date":"2025-01-29T16:58:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T16:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cestlaviechoir.gamedigits.co.uk\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2025-01-29T16:58:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T16:58:52","slug":"our-biggest-fundraising-achievement-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cestlaviechoir.gamedigits.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/our-biggest-fundraising-achievement-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Our biggest fundraising achievement yet!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At our Christmas concert we raised \u00a31000 for a tent school in a refugee camp in Gaza, set up by the group &#8216;West Wales Friends of Palestine&#8217;. Thanks to everyone who came along and supported us and to the choir for amazing raffle prizes and a delicious buffet after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were supported by the Singing Armadillos who got the evening off to a great start and then we enjoyed sharing our repertoire with our audience &#8211; see the videos below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were on fine form after singing three times the Sunday before &#8211; at the Waterfront Museum and also the Cwmdonkin Park Lantern parade. Our Christmas songs went down well but the biggest hits of the term were &#8216;He Ain&#8217;t Heavy, He&#8217;s my Brother&#8217; and the amazing &#8216;Eurovision Mash Up&#8217; devised by Jamie Dawes-Hughes. 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Thanks to everyone who came along and supported us and to the choir for amazing raffle prizes and a delicious buffet after. 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