Held in the impressive surroundings of the Oriel House Hotel in St Asaph, this was The Big Night.
It is the night all was revealed. Even the Calendar Girls themselves had not seen their pictures until the unveiling on October 24th.
Master of Ceremonies for the evening television personality, compare and comedian Dilwyn Pierce did a sterling job. He introduced the girls as, one by one, they were led onto the stage, red carpet style, by a couple of hunks in tuxedos whilst the calendar pages were projected on the big screen.
Musical entertainment was provided by non other than Welsh born recording artist and singer/songwriter Martyn Rowlands. Martyn soon had everyone on their feet, strutting their stuff on the dance floor. Some even joining him on the stage for some impromptu karaoke!
- Scroll down for a short bio on Dilwyn & Martyn
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Calendars were on sale during the evening and provisional estimates are that together with the night’s Auction of Promises something in excess of £3,000 was raised on the night!
A huge thanks must go to those businesses and individuals for their kind and generous donations – and of course to those who bid for and won the items. We will keep you updated here on the actual amount once it has been counted and confirmed.
Click on the hammer for a list of items sold at the auction.
Dilwyn Pierce
Dilwyn started entertaining when he was a member of Llannefydd Young Farmers doing sketches in the CFFI eisteddfod. He was then invited to present ‘Noson Lawen’ on S4C in 1994. Dilwyn has performed and presented this show on a number of occasions since. He has also had the opportunity to perform three times on the live shows; one of them shows was broadcast on New Year’s Eve.
He then went on to take part in three series’ with the ‘Jocars’ a welsh version of the ‘Comedians’. He then had a fantastic offer to have his own series of comedy programmes called ‘Da di Dil de’ on S4C he had a total of four series of this show. He has appeared on a variety of shows since then, one of them being part of a trio of local comedians called the ‘3 Digri’ with Glyn Owen and John sellers. At the end of October this year he will be travelling to Malta with Iona and Andy to entertain sixty Welsh speaking fans from Llun Peninsular.
Martyn Rowlands
Martyn Rowlands is a popular, talented singer, originally from Dolgellau an has lived in Harlech for over 15 years! He studied Music Technology at Coleg Harlech and released his 1st album called, Neges ir Byd with the group Cennad, which was successful.Martyn decided to follow a solo career and released his 2nd album called, “Dim Troi’n Ol” -which has been a tremendous success for him. Presently, he is working on his 3rd album called, Dim Byd iw Golli- at Gwynfryn Studios, Waunfawr, with Bob Galvin as producer and hopefully the album will be ready before the end of the year. He is extremely busy gigging all over North and Mid Wales and hopes to reach a wider audience, further afield, to gain more recognition.
