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Aarhus Vocal Festival: Day 4

Written by Bill Hare

Monday, 15 May 2006

This week, CASA's Bill Hare is attending the Aarhus Vocal Festival in Aarhus, Denmark from May 11-14, 2006. The festival includes concerts from groups: The Real Group, Rajaton, baSix, Vocal Line, Touche, VoxNorth and Vocappella. There will also be workshops, coachings, competitions, and lectures. Bill will be sending back daily reports to us here at CASA.org. So join us for DAY 4, the final day of the 2006 Aarhus Vocal Festival!

It's all coming to an end - Jens Johansen starts the closing concert ceremony.
Roger Treece shows us all what the participants of the 3 day "Soul, Grooves, and Circles" workshop. Roger, the only other American in attendance besides myself, used a pitch pipe to start off the singers. The one thing I noticed about every other group here is that they all use tuning forks, not the pitch pipes or electronic tone generators we use in North America.
Winners of the Choral Competition - Vivid Voices from Germany
Vocal Group Competition winners Apes and Babes. (video here)
A quick photo op with Apes and Babes before they head back to Norway. At the far right is Tor Martin Antonsen, Norwegian CASA Ambassador.
Denmark's Vocapella closed the festival in style - great jazz harmonies, lots of groove, and even a rockin' vocal guitar solo sung through a kiddie toy microphone!
As usually happens when the official buildings close, people hang around and sing outside for a bit. 5 countries represented in this informal circle - this is what it's all about! (video here) It's been a great 4 days! Congratulations to Jens, Henrik, and Svend for putting on such an amazing event!