Madame Hannah Hughes-Thomas (1863-1954) and her Royal Welsh Ladies Choir in the USA and Canada is a Welsh Voices* presentation.

*Welsh Voices is a series of monthly free virtual seminars on Zoom, presented by experts on Welsh and Welsh North American culture and history. It is a project of The Great Plains Welsh Heritage Centre in Wymore, Nebraska. For more details and links, visit greatplainswelsh.org/events

Madame Hannah Hughes-Thomas (1863-1954) and her Royal Welsh Ladies Choir in the USA and Canada - Presented by Dr. Bill Jones, Emeritus Professor, Cardiff University

Between 1908 and 1913, Madame Hannah Hughes-Thomas led the world-famous Royal Welsh Ladies’ Choir, of which she was the second director, on several tours of the United States and Canada, which included performances in San Francisco, Winnipeg, Atlanta, and the coal towns of the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. Dr. Bill Jones will discuss the choir’s North American tours during Madame Hughes-Thomas tenure and her life after she settled in Detroit in 1915.

​Dr. Bill Jones, Emeritus Professor in Modern Welsh History at Cardiff University, has written extensively on Welsh emigration to the United States. His works include Wales in America: Scranton and the Welsh, 1860-1920.

Obtain the Zoom Link Here - from The Great Plains Welsh Heritage Centre in Wymore, Nebraska.