The reputation of Chorale de Kigali, a Kigali-based choir of St Michael Catholic Parish, dates back to 1966. It continues to throb hearts of enthusiasts by their outstanding voices and outfits. This is exactly what they unleashed for their audience who turned up for their event last Sunday.

This was a special event dubbed Christmas Carols Concert 2014,’ which pulled an a big crowd of revellers. With over 40 members, all cladded in black suits with cream shirts for men while ladies in cream outfits, at Serena Kigali’s Ballroom, all was set by 6pm that the presentation kicked off as planned.

Their choral tradition based on originality can be well evidenced as they deliver live music. Neatly assembled according to their voice intonation by vocalists and soloists, with no other instruments apart from the keyboard, they will come out with a uniform mesmerising musical peace that leaves most, if not entirely everyone in the audience not only in bewilderment, but also craving for more.

Entertaining the audience, which encompassed various age groups for three hours is what they did best enthusiastically. Their presentation encompassed a bend of both local songs in Ikinyarwanda, French and English lyrics.

Western songs were majorly compositions by renowned composers like George Fredrick Hadel, a great British composer for opera between 1685 and 1759, Adolphe Adam, a French composer 1825 to 1856, Fredric Austin, a British composer and teacher in the 1920’s too.

Through songs like Noheli Ibisingizo mu Ijuru, a presentation by Thomas Nsenguyumva, Les Anges dans nos Campagnes, arranged by Francois Auguste Gevaert, Little Drummer Boy by Kattherine Kennicott Davis, The Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy, a West Indian Christmas Carol and Mary’s Boy Child by Jester Hairston.