FREIBURG SINGS (Satis Shroff)

FREIBURG SINGT  (Satis Shroff)

On Saturday the 30^th of June 2018 was the well-known Choir Festival ‘Freiburg  Singt’ in different parts of the this university town, which is also known as the Gateway to the Black Forest. The participants thirty choirs sand their repertoire in different styles from pop and jazz to classical songs.  

It was the biggest choir event in the entire region in cooperation with the Freiburger Choir Project. The choirs came from the Chorverbnd Breisgau (CVB), which involved    the communities from  the Landkreis Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Emmendingen and the City of Freiburg, as well as the choris and formations that weren’t members of the Chorverband Breisgau.

The musical side was organised by the teams of the Chorverband Breisgau comprising members of the CVB-chief Florian  Bischof, Jan Elert and Willi Ritter.

The Badischen Youth Choir under the leadership of music director of the Badischen Chorverband Mathias Böhringer, gave  what we in Germany call a ‘Leckerbissen’  (something of a treat). The Badische Jugendchor (youth choir) was initiate in 2010 by the Badischen Chorverband  to give the youth aged between 16 and 27 years a possibility to participate in over-regional musical performances. This performance was at 11am at the Freiburger Potatoe Market.

This was followed by the Männergesangverein (MGV Freiburg-Kappel) performing at the Konvikt Strasse from 11 till 11:20 am, then at the Augustinerplatz. And finally at the Kartoffelmarkt (Potato Market) from 12 till 12:30.

The sun was shining brightly and it was great to sing for the Freiburger audience and visitors from Switzerland and France,  and passersby in downtown Freiburg. The people were receptive, appreciated and clapped  to the rhythm of our songs.