Christmas-Choir-Festival

The Christmas-Choir-Festival is an organisation of the Royal Music Association of Belgium, the largest and most neutral music Federation of Belgium.

The Christmas-Choir-Festival has a dual purpose:

The message that the Royal Music Association of Belgium, under the patronage of the present King, Filip Ialways give is: peace, joy and friendship. In that atmosphere is there every year the Christmas Choirs-Festival arranged in which ten choirs and orchestras act together two, three days long.
 * The choirs who receive little or no financial support grants
 * The people between Christmas and new year offer a free Christmas concert, so that the disadvantaged groups agree to a concert can.

From 2004 it became Christmas-Choirs-Festival international and became the biggest choral event of Belgium. More than a hundred choirs will also in Ghent and beyond, each time during the Advent, in churches, schools, shops, streets and squares, singing songs of expectation come. As apotheosis follows then from 26 december the actual Christmas carols will be part where brought by choirs and orchestras. There is also provided harmony vocals, a kind of proms, but without microphones.

The General musical director is always in the hands of co-founder and driving force behind Léon-Bernard Gailward8v from Melle.