Article

The popular event has been staged for many years in the Princess Royal Theatre, Port Talbot, which is currently closed due to a multi-million-pound overhaul. The £16.9m project to transform the Princess Royal Theatre in Port Talbot into a modern cultural hub is part of a wider town-centre regeneration plan funded by the UK Government.

As a result, this year’s concert, on Saturday 1st November 2025 (starting at 7pm), will be held instead at the Great Hall in the Swansea University Bay Campus – the 65-acre beachfront campus on the Neath Port Talbot side of the border with Swansea.

The Mayor of Neath Port Talbot, Cllr Wayne Carpenter, said: “This annual concert is a very special evening to pay tribute to members of our Armed Forces Community and this year’s event will include commemorations of the 80th anniversary of VE and VJ Days.”

The evening will feature performances from two outstanding singers, soloist and Royal Marines “Forces Sweetheart” Kirsten Orsborn and Mumbles based rising star Madlen Forwood who sang alongside Katherine Jenkins for the late Queen Elizabeth Il at the Royal Windsor Horse Show as part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

Also starring at the concert will be The City of Swansea Pipe Band, Cerdd NPT Youth Orchestra, the Valley Rock Voices choir and the 334 (Neath) Squadron RAF Air Cadets Band.

The concert will end with a Remembrance Service, a minute’s silence and thousands of falling poppies.

Ticket prices:

• Standard £10 (including ticket levy/booking fee)
• Concessions: £8 (including ticket levy/booking fee) - under 16, 60+, groups of 8 or more, Armed Forces Veterans, Armed Forces Reservists, Armed Forces Cadets, serving Armed Forces personnel.

Tickets are available online at www.npt.gov.uk/AFF or from: Pontardawe Arts Centre, Herbert Street, Pontardawe, phone: 01792 863722