Big Welsh Anthem - 3rd June 2006

[roger]

According to johnp of the official forum....


Hayley is on TV again

Saturday 3rd June
BBC1 Wales
22:20
Big Welsh Anthem

Join a galaxy of stars as we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Welsh National Anthem in a light entertainment evening on location in a specially constructed arena at Ynys Angharad Park.
Includes Aled Jones & Hayley Westenra

Please note, this is BBC1 WALES....

Roger

[Richard]

Hello Roger and everybody!

This will be the televised version of the concert in Pontypridd, which was broadcast live on BBC Radio Wales on Monday evening.

Best Wishes,

Richard

[Richard]

Hello again everybody!

According to John P on Hayley's official forum, Aled Jones was ill and missed this concert. However, we do know that Hayley was there! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Get well soon, Aled.

Best Wishes,

Richard

[johnpr98]

Hi All

Don't forget, if you have SKY you can get any regional BBC programme, 972 ish

Best Wishes

Johnp

[Dave]

Hi everyone,

and thanks John for the "heads-ups" on this Anthem event.

Well I did record the TV show as I hoped I could and Hayley was mentioned in the introduction, then soon after the show started, she was shown in a short interview clip then singing Pokarekare Ana, sung wonderfully well. Later in the show, there was another short interview clip followed by her brilliant a capella rendition of Amazing Grace that is rapidly becoming the highlight of her shows! Finally, after another short interview clip Hayley took a prominent role in the final peformance of "Land of My Fathers" - the Welsh National Anthem... sung in Welsh of course.

So the good news is that although two of Hayley's songs weren't shown in this 40 minute TV special, they picked out the best two, Hayley played a prominent part in the show and... everything she sung was "live" with a "live" orchestra on stage. No backing tracks!

There's a fair bit of capturing, editing work and file conversion involved in making a video from this and I want to do a good job as in what was shown, Hayley was in fine voice. So bear with me while I put it all together - hopefully tonight but if not, by Sunday..

Cheers, Dave

[scoobedoo]

Cheers Dave,I look forward to that. It sounds as though the concert went very well by all accounts,cheers,


Rodders

[Dave]

Hi Rodders!

Well here are the two songs Hayley performed, the quality is certainly good enough for now though I may be able to improve on this tomorrow. I may well post an extended version too later today, including the introduction and finale - the Welsh Anthem itself, in which Hayley participated.

My reservations about this performance after hearing the initial live radio feeds have almost completely gone, this was a very good performance by Hayley... and she seems to have thoroughly enjoyed it!

So, for your delectation and delight... here is:

Pokarekare Ana (3m 50s, 414 kbps, 11.7 MB)

Amazing Grace (2m 9s, 414 kbps, 6.6MB)

Cheers, sleepy Dave at 4 am
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(links now switched to hwi.net)

[scoobedoo]

Thanks very much Dave,very much appreciated.About time for some shuteye eh? i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif :zz ,cheers,

Rodders from a very wet holiday weekend, Christchurch NZ,

Queens Birthday Celebration Weekend,

Rodders

[graemek]

Well Dave,
Those 2 were absolutely glorious!!!!!

Thanks so much,
Graemek

Is that the PokarekareA that Aled was scheduled to do with her??

[Richard]

Many thanks for your efforts, Dave!

I agree that the televised sound was far superior to that on the radio broadcast. Hayley looked and sounded stunning, and there was no sign of tiredness there, although I still don't know how she does it all! Now I'm really looking forward to the clip of 'Land of my Fathers', but please don't rush it, Dave! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Graeme, that was the vocalise version of 'Pokarekare Ana', as featured on the UK bonus CD edition of 'Pure'. When Hayley sings it as a duet, it is usually a different arrangement with a choral section in the middle. She also raises the pitch by an octave on the last line. There is a live duet with Russell Watson on the Australian bonus CD edition of 'Pure' which has this arrangement.

Best Wishes,

Richard

[Steve H]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the two fabulous videos, I thought that Hayley singing pokarekare ana was one of the best performances I have seen, and wasn't that dress beautiful !!

Try and get some sleep now, you have a busy week ahead of you!

Best wishes

Steve H

[Richard]

I must post this, hot off the press from Il Divo's forum.

Hawaiian Trish wrote:-

Dave,
Can you please do something for me, last night I watched a show on BBC1 Wales, as it was the 150th anniversary of the Welsh Anthem.
Amongst those taking part was Hayley, she sang Amazing Grace so beautifully, and then at the end joined in the singing of the anthem with the rest, and she sang it so lovely, I was so proud to be Welsh and also proud to have Hayley in our family here, and I was thinking that if it's true that she'll be in the Cardiff show of the guys, how great it would be if she could sing the anthem there, the Welsh contingent would be over the moon, just a thought.
love Trish xxx

Richard

[Stuart H]

Hi Dave,

Many thanks for these super videos - and delivered to the forum so promptly at considerable personal expense! If you have bags under your eyes when we meet up on Tuesday, we'll all know why!

Like you, the video quality shows that these were indeed excellent performances. I hope we are in for similar treats at Cadogan Hall and Wisley.

Regards

Stuart

[graemek]

Thanks Richard,
I didn't know the rearranging for the PA duet
but that seems to make sense.
We have the DVD with the Russel-Hayley duet
& it gets regular repeat performances at our place.
I love the endurance test at the end!!! Spectacular..

I was totally stunned by the beauty of HW's singing
on Dave's clips. What adjective do you use when
you want to go better than staggeringly beautiful??

In fact my wife & I sat here & watched those clips
a few times & were both thoroughly 'Westenwowed'.

I'm speechless & that's unusual for me....Graemek

Incidentally I love that Aled Hayley interview....fascinating!!

[roger]

Too beautiful for words.

Thanks Dave.

Roger