Mike Edwards  ~ Bass

I am a retired teacher/lecturer of mathematics and computing. They say it’s never to late to learn, so I try, with varying degrees of success, to keep up with the advances of the latter.

I like many kinds of music, from Irish Folk Music, to classical music and jazz, and lots of others in between - especially performed live.

My hobbies have been wide and varied, including choral singing, pyrography , Celtic Knot design , Nine Men's Morris, growing cacti, growing orchids, weaving, kumihimo, and a jar or three of ale, not necessarily in that order, except for the first one, and many more too numerous to mention.

I have managed to be in one choir or another since I was a teenager. First as a pupil, then at the school where I first taught, in Barry, under chorus master Dyfrig Thomas. When I moved to Cardiff, I joined Cardiff Male Choir, and from there I spent thirteen great years with Cantorion Ardwyn Caerdydd, The Cardiff Ardwyn Singers, a mixed choir of, then, about 45 voices, under Helena Braithwaite M.B.E., their MD. When I moved to Merthyr Tydfil I joined another great choir, the Dowlais Male Choir, with whom I still sing, but missed the special joy of singing with a mixed choir, so with my wife, Joyce, searched for and eventually found the Gwent Bach Society. Since then, Thursday night has been my high-spot of the week.