This Festival puts the music into protest, making it creative, joyful and engaging. Through song, the aim is to promote a world free of oppression, exploitation, exclusion and violence. This year's host choir is Côr Gobaith. The collective musical repertoire includes world music, folk, pop, rap, soul, gospel... you name it. The issues Festival choirs focus on transcend traditional politics, with women’s choirs, LGBTQ choirs, choirs of women asylum seekers, choirs singing for human rights. Radical Wales' folk singer Tracey Curtis tops the bill at Friday night's welcome gig. Saturday begins with a spectacular mass sing at the bandstand on the seafront, followed by choirs busking throughout the town.