WHEN soprano Yvonne Kenny takes centre stage at Sydney Town Hall on Saturday, there will be few prouder than Rockdale master of ceremonies Kevin Burg.
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No doubt Mr Burg's fellow 54 fellow Sydney Male Choir members will share his sense of the importance of the occasion.
The soprano and the choir will give four performances together.
No stranger to public appearances, the choir performed in and around London last year, and across the English Channel there was another "extremely moving performance".
"As the mist was coming up the valley it was Anzac Day at Villers-Bretonneux in France and it was spine-tingling as we sang," Mr Burg said.
Last year, the choir also marked 100 continuous years since being formed initially as Petersham Glee Club.
A retired high school teacher, Mr Burg joined the choir 16 years ago.
"I always liked singing since childhood. I found that musical societies were taking far too much time and a friend suggested the choir," he said.
"Now when I hear the choir, the sound still sends a shiver up my spine and the hairs on the back of my neck stand up."
The choir's repertoire include Ave Maria and numbers by Queen, from Miss Saigon and Fiddler On the Roof.
Saturday's concert, a fund-raiser for Australia's Royal Flying Doctor Service, includes Welsh hymns, Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine, pop and rock.
Choir president Gary Withyman said choir members rehearsed for 46 weeks and did more than 20 concerts a year.
"In any week you might find us singing at a Sylvania retirement home, a coastal church, an aircraft hangar in Dubbo or squeezing on to a community hall stage at Dunedoo," he said.
The concert starts at 2pm; tickets: www.sydneymalechoir.com.au;
adults $40, concessions $35, groups (10+) $30.
