LEGATO news in September

In this newsletter you will find:

 

  • Various Voices 2026: View and Vote – last chance!
  • Save the Date: General Meeting 2021
  • Legato: Proud being a member of the Queer Alliance 
  • New launch: Europa Cantat TV
  • Member services: Legato round tables
  • Member Spotlight: Feature in our spotlight section
  • Concert Review: we want you to share your latest concert
  • Holiday season: roundup for seasonal concerts
  • Last: Join our mailing list

View and Vote 2026 – last chance!

The voting closes soon and we want to make sure you View and Vote for the host city of Various Voices 2026. The Vote closes at midnight on 31st August 2021.

View:  

  1. Read and share the bid document.
  2. Look at the video to complement the bid.
  3. Review the scores of the Legato Various Voices Team.
  4. Refer to the Call for Bids and Legato's Choirs Support Policy
  5. View the bids here: https://www.legato-choirs.com/variousvoices2026

Vote:   

  1. A link to the vote will be sent to each Legato member choir. 
  2. Once your choir is ready to vote please score both bids 1 to 5 (5 being the highest).
  3. Each choir may only submit their votes once, if more than one set of votes is cast we will only count the most recent votes cast.
  4. The voting opens on 1st August and closes on 31st August 2021.

Your vote link will be sent to your choir’s email address registered with Legato.
If you do not receive your link (please check your SPAM file) or wish to amend your formal email please write to membership@legato-choirs.com.


If you have any questions about the host bid please connect with them.

The host city for Various Voices 2026 will be announced by December 2021 and there will be a handover ceremony in Bologna in 2023.

Both our bidding teams have worked immensely hard to offer us all the best experience for 2026 and we thank them for contributing to our mission. Enjoy!

Barcelona

Barcelona, the Mediterranean's proudest city is getting ready to welcome Various Voices singers from all over Europe in 2026! Barcelona Rainbow Singers and Barcelona Gay Men's Chorus united in harmony and created a joint candidacy with the motto:

Singing Together. Dreaming Together.

These two choirs, with 11 and 6 years of experience respectively, dream of enchanting Legato members and singers with a proposal uniting organizational excellence and creative emotion in equal measures. In the capable hands of a first-class artistic and technical team, the backing of city hall among other local and national administrations, and the support of important figures in activism, tourism, culture and commerce, Barcelona, with diversity its banner wants the world to experience our enormously welcoming city in the best way possible, through choral singing.

Various Voices Barcelona 2026 will bring music to some of the most renowned, emblematic venues the city has to offer as well as to less well known areas of the city; to neighbourhoods where more LGTBIQ+ visibility is needed, or to places with symbolic significance for our collective, tracing a pathway with an historic and identity defining narrative. 

Milestone events such as the 1992 Olympic Games, the 2008 EuroGames or the most multitudinous Mediterranean Pride celebrations influence the spirit of the proposal, which will honour the past with references such as Freddy Mercury, in a unique, never seen before event. 

We aim to leave an indelible legacy in the city, its inhabitants and its visitors.

Our dream is that Barcelona city & Legato can experience this project in which music, activism, technology, coexistence, values and, above all, passion, are fused together in a perfect melody.

We invite you to come and dream with us!

Various Voices, Barcelona 2026 is waiting for you!

Brussels

Brussels is an open-minded city, in a country always at the forefront of LGBTQ+ rights and ranked second in the ILGA-Europe Rainbow Index 2021. By singing together in the capital of Europe’s 500 million citizens, we’ll deliver a powerful message and a strong signal aimed at countries where our community faces repeated attacks.

Various Voices Brussels 2026 will be a joyful festival, with plenty of time for leisure and sharing. But why should we wait until 2026 to have fun with our friends? As soon as Various Voices Bologna 2023 is over, we’ll start involving all Legato choir members in the creative process of the 2026 festival. We will twin choirs for online rehearsals or live collaborations. We will create together the main shows of the festival through virtual meetings to select repertoire, share scores or write scripts. Two shows will play with Belgian culture and stereotypes in a fun way: “Kings & Queens of Belgium'' because Belgium is a kingdom, and we want to make it a Queerdom; and »The Treachery of Images« to look beyond appearances, like in the Belgian surrealist painter Magritte’s artwork. The culmination of the festival will be the “Let Your Heart Be Heard” night, outdoors near the European Parliament. This concert will illustrate our history and the fight for our rights. At the end, we will together perform a giant LGBTQ+ choral work composed for the festival.

Various Voices Brussels 2026 will also be a festival committed to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals: socially, environmentally and economically sustainable; inclusive; accessible; with zero carbon footprint.

So, where is the best place for the next festival? In Brussels, of course! Let’s work together to create the most amazing festival ever! Sing Out Brussels! (The Fabulous Queer Choir) cannot wait to welcome you to the vibrant heart of Europe, and help you discover the fabulous welcome and warmth of its residents!

Save the Date: 
AGM - Annual General Meeting

General Meeting 2021

Our next Annual General Meeting will be held online again:


Saturday, 30 October 2021, 2 - 4 pm (CET)

  Find the Invitations with the agenda here!  

Global Alliance of Queer Choirs

LGBTIQA+ equal rights through song

Global Alliance of Queer Choirs

The Global Alliance of Queer Choirs brings together LGBTIQ+ singing organizations from almost all the regions of the world in common purpose.

The Global Alliance of Queer Choirs brings together LGBTIQA+ singing organizations from almost all the regions of the world in common purpose.

 

We share best practice, work together on festival scheduling, and provide opportunities for international collaborations between our organizations and their member groups.

 

Each organization also presents its own major festival of queer singing every few years.

 

Legato is proud to be a founding members of the Queer Alliance

 

@queerchoirs #queerchoirs

Europa Cantat TV

The European Choral Association has launched – Europa Cantat TV.

Schedule of the Europa Cantat TV

The online Europa Cantat Festival TV will run HERE from Saturday morning, 17 July, until Thursday afternoon, 22 July. All the content will be available free of charge. Find the detailed schedule of the TV programme below. Live concerts won't be streamed on the EC TV.

And a new song book:

European Choral Association | European Choral Association

3 - 2 - 1 - Europa Cantat this and more in our monthly newsflash: https://bit.ly/3yWN6rt Read about: Europa Cantat Ljubljana The #BenefitsOfSinging online campaign ECA General Assembly @Lyon Choral events 2021 News from other cultural networks ... and much more!... We've got news for you! What's going on in choral Europe?

LEGATO ROUND TABLES 

Member services are planning a series of round tables to discuss topics of interest and are working on building out our resources library.

 

Keep a look out and sign up and if you think you can help please get in touch with Miszha:

misha.cherniak@legato-choirs.com

Member Spotlight

 

Would your choir like to feature in our spotlight section, well step in - send in some short text and images to

 
editor@legato-choirs.com

Concert Review 

 

Want to share your latest concert or performance, send in a short text with images and video link to

 
editor@legato-choirs.com

Holiday season

 

We will be featuring a full roundup of seasonal concerts across Europe in your November newsletter – so be sure to send in the details – name, date, location, weblink etc. 

 

»Let's jingle our way into 2022«!

 
editor@legato-choirs.com

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