The Cathedral serves Wales, the diocese and the City of Newport; it also serves a large parish. The tradition of the daily offices together with the Eucharist is firmly maintained.

In fact there are two splendid choirs, so that there are sung evensongs during term time on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays – with 2 sung services each Sunday. Perhaps astonishingly the choirs are unpaid, with the boys coming from 6 different schools. All this is then maintained by just two professional musicians.

The music of the cathedral has an outstanding reputation throughout Wales. But this reputation is not won without enormous and constant effort.