We have following programme for the HARMONIE Festival 2017 planned
-Status of 16th april 2017-
Saturday 20th May 2017
- Initial Event (9 pm): MAYBEBOP – The ultimative A-Capella-Pop-Quartet
Thursday 25th May 2017
- International Choir Competition
Category 12 (Folk Song) with 15 choirs from Austria, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Germany, Croatia, Latvia, Macedonia, Philippines, Uganda, Hungary, USA. - National Choir Competitions
35 Choirs from six German Federal States - The fascinating world of folklore
International folklore ensembles present music and dancing from England, Georgia, Iran, Ireland, Macedonia, Netherlands, Peru, Serbia, South Korea, Hungary and Uganda.
Evening
- International Festival Concert (8 pm) – „Harmonie meets friends”
International high class choir music presented by Harmonie Lindenholzhausen and festival choirs. With Top-Class Male Voice Choirs from Germany and Austria and award-winning choirs from the USA, Germany, Philippines, Austria, Ukraine, Costa Rica and Bulgaria. - Special Concert (6 pm): Vocal Ensemble Singer Pur
Honored three times with the ECHO-Classic-Prize
Friday 26th May 2017
- Day of UN-Refugee Agency (12:30)
- Children’s Cultural Project
An international choir project with choirs from the region of Limburg involving refugee children - Sound of Cultures
Singing, dancing and making music together with international children’s and youth choirs and youth folk dance groups - Message of the UN Secretary-General
Musically presented by the United Nation Singers New York (Choir of the UN employees) - The fascinating world of folklore
International folklore music and dance - Concert of Sacred Music
International choirs sing in St.Jacob’s Church
- Children’s Cultural Project
- Worship with the Catholic Bishop of Limburg (4:30 pm)
The net profit of all these events will be donated in favour of the UN-Refugee Agency
Evening
- International Festival Concert (8 pm) – „Harmonie meets friends”
International high class choir music presented by Harmonie Lindenholzhausen and award-winning festival choirs and vocal ensembles from Thailand, USA, Latvia, Georgia and Czech Republic.
Saturday 27th May 2017
- International Choir Competitions
- Mixed Chamber Choirs – 17 choirs from Costa Rica, Germany, Macedonia, Netherlands, Philippines, Russia, Slovenia, Thailand, Ukraine and from Hungary.
- Male Chamber Choirs – 6 choirs from Costa Rica, Germany, Netherlands and the USA.
- Children’s Choirs and Youth Choirs – 7 choirs from Austria, Germany, Sweden and Czech Republic.
- Mixed Choirs – 3 choirs from Switzerland and the USA.
- The fascinating world of folklore
International folklore music and dance from the following nations and cultures: Bulgaria, England, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Ireland, Croatia, Macedonia, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Rumania, South Korea, Czech Republic, Turkey, Hungary and Uganda. - Concert of Sacred Music
International choirs sing in St.Jacob’s Church
Evening
- International Folklore-Gala (7:30 pm) – International Ensembles present folk dance and music from 15 different countries and cultures – 11 ensembles compete with a participants’ jury
- Special Concert: International Sacred Choir Music in St. Jacob’s Church. Harmonie Lindenholzhausen presents the following awarded-winning choirs: Stockholm’s Musikgymnasium Choir, University of Louisville Cardinal Singers, Kammerchor CONSONO Köln and Männerensemble “Sonat Vox”.
Sunday 28th May 2017
- International Choir Competitions
- Female Chamber Choirs – 4 choirs from Bulgaria, Latvia, Netherlands and the USA.
- Male Choirs – 8 choirs from Austria, Germany, Finland, Netherlands.
- Jazz Vocal – 6 ensembles from Costa Rica, Germany, Philippines and Switzerland
- Vocal Ensembles – 5 ensembles from Germany, Iran, Philippines, Russia and Czech Republic.
- Sacred Music – 18 choirs from Austria, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Philippines, Rumania, Russia, Sweden, Thailand, Ukraine, Hungary and USA.
- Folklore Choirs – 4 choirs from Costa Rica, Germany/Armenia, Macedonia and Uganda.
- The fascinating world of folklore
International folklore music and dance from 20 different nations and cultures (with integrated folklore competition of 15 ensembles – participant’s jury) - Concert of Sacred Music
International choirs sing in St. Jacob’s Church
Evening
- International Concert of Prize Winners (8 pm): Prize winners of the international choir competitions