CHORAL VETERAN OVERCOMES TRAGEDY TO LEAD YOUNG SINGERS TO LIVE SEMI-FINALS  (Wales’ only Semi-Final entry!)   A choral conductor who has been conducting a children’s choir since the shadow years of World War II will this week lead his youth singers with pride as they reach the Semi-Finals of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent. Wales’ Angelicus Celtis comprise of everyday schoolgirls aged 12 and up from the ranks of the Hywel Girls’ Choir led by conductor John Hywel Williams who has nurtured…

  All-female Welsh choir, Angelicus Celtis have recently shown their support for people affected by dementia and become Dementia Friends. The schoolgirls from Llanelli, South West Wales who have made it to the Semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent were all made Dementia Friends as it was revealed that many members of the choral group have personal experience of the condition and their grandparents received direct support from Alzheimer’s Society Cymru. Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Friends programme is the biggest ever initiative to…