"from the album, reaching No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart. U.S. President Bill Clinton invited Jones to perform on New Year's Eve at the 2000 millennium celebrations in Washington D.C. Throughout the year 2000, Jones garnered a number of honours for his work; including a BRIT Award for Best British Male. He was also hired as the new voice of Australia's National Rugby League, singing in an advertisement to market the 2000 season. In 2002, Jones released the album ""Mr. Jones"", which was produced by Haitian-American rapper Wyclef Jean. The album and the first single, ""Tom Jones International"", were"
"Welsh Proms, an Orchestral Series attracting renowned conductors and performers, and the biennial Cardiff Singer of the World competition. The Wales Millennium Centre is a performing arts centre in Cardiff Bay. Opened in 2004, the centre has already established its reputation as one of the world's iconic arts and cultural destinations. The centre usually hosts West End musicals, opera ballet and contemporary dance. With a capacity of 74,500, the Millennium Stadium, national stadium of Wales, hosts only the largest of concerts by the most famous of performers, such as U2, Oasis, Take That, Kasabian, Madonna and Paul McCartney. The stadium"
"award-winning Welsh journalist, newsreader and presenter Huw Edwards in the role. Since its founding, the choir has regularly performed in venues such as the Houses of Parliament, the Foreign Office, the National Liberal Club, St Paul's Cathedral, the Ritz Hotel, the Royal Albert Hall and many of the places of worship in the List of Christopher Wren churches in London. The choir has performed at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. The choir has toured widely in Europe, most recently in Lombardy, Italy. Choir members sang as part of the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games. The choir appeared"
"""In These Stones Horizons Sing"" and the Centre was open. The evening celebrations began with ""Cymru for the World"", which celebrated the achievements of five leading Welsh artists; Gwyneth Jones, Shirley Bassey, Siân Phillips, Alun Hoddinott and Richard Burton, represented by his daughter Kate Burton. This included tributes from Robert Hardy, Jonathan Pryce, Derek Jacobi, Nana Mouskouri, Catrin Finch, Ruth Madoc and Ian McKellen. The concert was directed by Ken Caswell and conducted by David Charles Abell. Bryn Terfel started off with a short speech and introduced the Wales Millennium Centre singers and dancers, who in hard hats and donkey"
"Leaving the 20th Century Leaving the 20th Century is a recording of the Manic Millennium concert by the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers, released in 2000. The concert was announced on October 5th 1998 and which also celebrated the 10th anniversary of the band, was performed on the New Year's Eve night 1999-2000 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, in front of more than 57,000 fans. The event became international as the final song of the event was broadcast live all over the world through satellites, the entire concert was broadcast Live on London's 104.9 XFM, support came from"
"Shonagh Daly Shonagh Daly (born 1980 in Castletroy, Co. Limerick) is an Irish singer and musical performer 'Discovered' by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Shonagh sang at the inaugural gala for George W. Bush on 18 January 2001 which was also attended by Tony Blair She went on to perform at the first Ground Zero memorial concert (at the request of Rudolph Giuliani). Shonagh sang again for various heads of state and other luminaries in November 2003 in London where her audience included the Queen, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, Laura Bush, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice."
"was held on 14 July 1996. Jehovah's Witnesses held their annual conventions at the National Stadium. The National Stadium was known primarily as the venue for massed voices singing such hymns as ""Cwm Rhondda"", ""Calon Lân"", ""Men of Harlech"" and ""Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau"" (""Land of my Fathers"" – the national anthem of Wales). The legendary atmosphere including singing of the crowd was said to be worth at least a try or a goal to the home nation. This tradition of singing has now passed on to the Millennium Stadium. The Arms Park has its own choir, called the Cardiff"
"in 2004 it moved into the new Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. The company tours nationally and internationally, giving more than 120 performances annually, with a repertoire of eight operas each year, to a combined audience of more than 150,000 people. Its most frequent venues other than Cardiff are Llandudno in Wales and Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, Milton Keynes, Oxford, Plymouth, and Southampton in England. Singers who have been associated with the company include Geraint Evans, Thomas Allen, Anne Evans, and Bryn Terfel. Guest artists from other countries have included Joan Hammond, Tito Gobbi and Elisabeth Söderström. Among the conductors have"
"Award for an Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales during the Machynlleth Festival. He also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Arts Council of Wales in 1999, and Fellowship of the Welsh Music Guild. On 1 March 2007 (Saint David's Day) soprano Helen Field and baritone Jeremy Huw Williams gave the world première of his orchestral song cycle ""Serenissima"" with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at St David's Hall. It was announced on this occasion that the new home of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff would include a specially"
"hours 26 minutes. Jenkins was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for her services to music and for charitable services. Katherine Jenkins Katherine Maria Jenkins (born 29 June 1980) is a Welsh mezzo-soprano singer and songwriter. She is a classical-crossover singer who performs across a spectrum of operatic arias, popular songs, musical theatre and hymns. After winning singing competitions in her youth, Jenkins studied at the Royal Academy of Music, modelled and taught voice. She came to wide public attention in 2003 when she sang at Westminster Cathedral in honour"
"by the Welsh Men's Choir on the 9 June 1968 telecast of ""The Ed Sullivan Show"". He also covered this song in his 1964 RCA Victor album ""The Exciting Voice of Sergio Franchi."" American singer and songwriter Barbra Streisand sang this song in a surprise appearance at the close of the 2001 Emmy Awards, in honor of the victims of the 11 September 2001 attacks. In 1990 at the concert at Wembley Stadium London, the audience spontaneously broke out into a mass rendition. Mandela turned to Adelaide Tambo who accompanied him onto the stage and asked what the song was."
"White House and have appeared in concert with a host of superstars, including Bob Hope, Kenny Rogers, Wayne Newton, Celine Dion, B.J. Thomas, Roberta Flack, Eartha Kitt, Cathy Rigby, the U.S. Army Band, and the world-renowned Cleveland Orchestra. Their 1973 single, ""Christmas Is Christmas All Over The World"", is one of the songs selected for the classic Yule Log Christmas special originally aired by WPIX-TV in New York. William C. (Bill) Boehm, Founding Director, started the Singing Angels in 1964 to promote the action and joy of singing good music particularly amongst children. He held a master's degree in Dramatic"
"White House for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. and also sang at Carnegie Hall, the annual Cabaret Conventions at Town Hall and always sang the closing song at John Znidarsic's In Celebration of Life Concert. She also participated in numerous benefits to raise money for causes related to AIDS and human rights, and performed major concerts in her home town of Midland Michigan, and her ""second home town"" San Francisco. In 2008, her posthumously-released album ""Ask Me Again"", featuring songs she recorded between 1988 and 1995, reached #12 on ""Billboard"" magazine's ""Top Jazz Albums"" chart. She sang with a"
"Henderson arrived in town, looking for singers of traditional songs. Over the next twenty years, the Stewarts of Blair became a folk attraction on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. In 1976, Stewart and her family were asked by United States President Gerald Ford to sing in the White House for the bicentennial celebrations. On 1 June 1982, she was chosen to represent the travelling people during Pope John Paul II's visit to Scotland. She sang Ewan MacColl's ""Moving On Song"". In addition to writing her mother's biography, ""Queen Amang the Heather – The Life of Belle Stewart"", in 2006,"
"Christmas at the White House Christmas at the White House: Burl Ives Sings the Favorite Carols and Hymns of America's Presidents is a 1972 album by Burl Ives. It purports to be a collection of twelve presidents' favorite Christmas songs. It has not yet been released on CD. Some of the selections were apparently based on speculation. For example, John Adams may have favored the rendition of ""Joy to the World"" by American composer William Billings because the Adamses attended Billings's church in Boston. Other selections were based on authoritative sources, such as presidential writings and direct communication with presidents'"
"space created by the art of music. ""—Gwyneth Lewis"" ""In These Stones Horizons Sing"" is also an orchestral work, which was composed by Karl Jenkins, and commissioned by the Wales Millennium Centre for the opening of the Centre. The building was officially opened on the weekend of the 26, 27 and 28 November 2004. The ceremony was organised by Bryn Terfel, the creative director of the whole opening weekend. Day 1 – 26 November 2004 The day started with a speech from Lord Rowe-Beddoe, chairman of Wales Millennium Centre, who declared to the crowd that the proceedings were under way."
"Holly Holyoake Holly Holyoake (born 31 December 1988) is a Welsh classical music singer from Duffryn, Newport. A soprano, she has been likened to fellow Welsh performer Katherine Jenkins. Her career is following a similar path to Jenkins and she has performed before the Wales national rugby union team matches at the Millennium Stadium. She considers American tenor Mario Lanza her inspiration. Holyoake's debut album, ""When Dreams Have Wings"", was self-released in 2002 with the catalogue number HRH1, and recorded when she was just 14. In 2004 Holyoake performed with Hayley Westenra in Cardiff. She came to prominence in August"
"Wales Millennium Centre Wales Millennium Centre () is an arts centre located in the Cardiff Bay area of Cardiff, Wales. The site covers a total area of . Phase 1 of the building was opened during the weekend of the 26–28 November 2004 and phase 2 opened on 22 January 2009 with an inaugural concert. The centre has hosted performances of Opera, ballet, Dance, Theatre comedy and Musicals. The Centre comprises one large theatre and two smaller halls with shops, bars and restaurants. It houses the national orchestra and opera, dance, theatre and literature companies, a total of eight arts"
"organisations in residence. It is also home to the Cardiff Bay Visitor Centre. The main theatre, the Donald Gordon Theatre, has 1,897 seats, the BBC Hoddinott Hall 350 and the Weston Studio Theatre 250. In 2001 Lord Rowe-Beddoe was appointed chairman of Wales Millennium Centre, a company limited by guarantee. Board members include Sir Michael Checkland. The Centre replaced an earlier project for the site, the Cardiff Bay Opera House, a plan supported by the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation to construct a permanent home for the Welsh National Opera. The project failed to win financial support from the Millennium Commission,"
"inhabitants of her native Cardiff. Lewis later wrote the words which appear over the Wales Millennium Centre, which opened in November 2004. The same words form the title of Karl Jenkins's cantata ""In These Stones Horizons Sing"", which is partly set to lyrics by Gwyneth Lewis. In 2005 she was elected Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University. The same year she was made the first National Poet of Wales. She was a judge for the 2011 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. On 6 August 2012, Gwyneth Lewis won Y Goron (the Crown) at the National Eisteddfod at Llandow for a"
"extra musicians and the BBC Concert Orchestra. Tom Jones, Elton John, Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney brought their own bands to the concert. Gary Barlow and Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote a song for the jubilee entitled ""Sing"" which was performed for the first time at the concert by a choir from many Commonwealth countries. The song draws inspiration from the music and people of the Commonwealth. Its creation was the subject of a one-hour BBC documentary broadcast on 3 June 2012 by BBC One. Concert ticket holders were given access to the palace gardens for an afternoon picnic before the"
"White House for President Calvin Coolidge in 1926, the Club has sung for numerous heads of state and world leaders. One of the highlights of 1989 was the Club's performance for Polish President Lech Wałęsa. In 1999, several prominent Japanese executives sponsored a tour to Guam and Japan, the Club's first tour of the Asian Pacific. In 2004, the Club returned to Asia, this time touring China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. The following year, in 2005, the Club journeyed back to South America for the first time since 1987, touring Argentina and Uruguay. The 2006-2007 season saw the group"
"from President Barack Obama's 2011 National Medal of Arts commendation on its back cover. In 1994, she published the play ""The Darker Face of the Earth"" (revised stage version 1996), which premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon in 1996 (first European production: Royal National Theatre, London, 1999). She collaborated with composer John Williams on the song cycle ""Seven for Luck"" (first performance: Boston Symphony, Tanglewood, 1998, conducted by the composer). For ""America's Millennium"", the White House's 1999/2000 New Year's celebration, Ms. Dove contributed — in a live reading at the Lincoln Memorial, accompanied by John Williams' music"
"the White House in 2002. Jackson-Miller, who had been suicidal after the failure of a marriage, later said that she wrote the song after discovering what she called the ""life-saving joy of God's peace and unconditional love."" The song is performed worldwide throughout the year, and particularly during the Christmas season, which has led to it being considered a Christmas song. It is included in the hymnals of a variety of Christian denominations, and is used in worship services even by a number of denominations that do not include it in their hymnals. It typically concludes Unity Church services each"
"highly popular with traditional Welsh male voice choirs, and is sung by them at festivals in Wales and around the world. The song is also sometimes considered a Christmas carol, and as such has been performed by many artists on Christmas albums, including Olivia Newton-John and Michael McDonald, who sang it as a duet on Newton-John's 2007 album ""Christmas Wish"". Cerys Matthews sang it solo on her 2010 album ""Tir"". Singable English lyrics to the same tune were written by Sir Harold Boulton in 1884: In an alternative version, the second verse is substituted with: Another alternative version features a"
"Welsh Nationalist party, Plaid Cymru in the National Assembly for Wales election. In January 2017, she took part in a protest in Cardiff about Donald Trump's inauguration as US president. Church's personal life has often been reported in UK tabloid newspapers, inspiring the song ""Let's Be Alone"" on her album ""Tissues and Issues"". At age 15 she was criticised for remarks attributed to her by the ""New York Post"" in which she allegedly criticised ""the hero status afforded to New York firefighters"" in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks. She apologised for the remarks one month later, as"
"Prince of Wales on 31 January 2009, where he unveiled a plaque. The Wales Millennium Centre is home to nine arts organisations: It is also home to the Cardiff Bay Visitor Centre. The total cost of phase 1 of the project was £106.2 million. The National Lottery Millennium Fund provided £31.7 million, a further £37 million came from The National Assembly for Wales and £10.4 million was donated by the Arts Council of Wales. In addition a private investor, South African businessman Donald Gordon donated £20 million to be shared equally between the Royal Opera House and the Wales Millennium"
"who had the same surname of Norberg. Gavin & Stacey Episode 1 of the second series of BBC TV show ""Gavin & Stacey"" was filmed in the Wales Millennium Centre. The centre was supposed to be an airport. Notes Wales Millennium Centre Wales Millennium Centre () is an arts centre located in the Cardiff Bay area of Cardiff, Wales. The site covers a total area of . Phase 1 of the building was opened during the weekend of the 26–28 November 2004 and phase 2 opened on 22 January 2009 with an inaugural concert. The centre has hosted performances of"
"1998, BBC Wales screened ""An Evening With Max Boyce"", which broke Welsh viewing records. The following year, in 1999, he performed at the opening ceremonies of the 1999 Rugby World Cup in the Millennium Stadium, and of the Welsh Assembly. Not long after, Boyce was included on the 2000 New Year Honours list, and received an MBE from Prince Charles in a ceremony at Cardiff Castle on 15 March that year. According to Boyce, ""He (the Prince) said he was surprised it took them so long"" to accord him this honour. Boyce's greatest musical success in recent years was his"
"Supporters Group named 'Yma O Hyd' named after his song. Dafydd Iwan Dafydd Iwan (born Dafydd Iwan Jones 24 August 1943), is a Welsh folk singer and politician. He was the president of Plaid Cymru (2003-2010). Dafydd Iwan Jones was born in Brynaman in Carmarthenshire, Wales, one of four boys. One of his brothers was the late actor Huw Ceredig. Dafydd Iwan is the elder brother of politician Alun Ffred Jones. His paternal grandfather, Fred Jones, was a member of the Bardic family Teulu'r Cilie, and a founding member of Plaid Cymru. He spent most of his youth in Bala"
"14 February 2014, Jones was nominated as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music; he was presented with the fellowship on 3 July 2014. He was one of the Joneses who broke the world record for gathering together the highest number of people who share a surname, in the Millennium Stadium in 2006: he was one of 1,224 people called Jones who took part. Aled Jones Aled Jones, (born 29 December 1970) is a Welsh singer and radio and television presenter. As a teenage chorister, he reached widespread fame during the mid-1980s. Since then he has become well"
"No.4 in the UK Singles Chart. Shirley Bassey and Bryn Terfel released a version of the song on 11 October 1999. It was controversially mimed live by at the opening of the series in June 1999, with Bassey famously wearing a gown designed on the Welsh flag. Three versions are featured on the CD single: a duet with Bassey and Terfel, Bassey's solo version and a version which features the choirs only. The duet version is performed partially in Welsh by Terfel. The official video was filmed at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff and features various other Welsh landscapes. The single"
"New Year's Eve 2005 performed on RTÉ's ""Everyone's a Winner"", singing Sheryl Crow's ""Everyday Is a Winding Road"". Late in 2005 Quinn was invited by the Irish President Mary McAleese ""to a reception to celebrate [her] contribution to the entertainment industry in Ireland"" at the President's official residence, Áras an Uachtaráin. Quinn played the role of Beth in the 2007 live tour of ""Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds"". The same year she performed at and judged the regional finals for Girl Guiding UK's talent competition ""Guiding Star"". and also appeared at the Grand Final in"