Sedbergh Town Twinning
Musical visits - singing groups and the town band
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- Pella is group who specialise in singing arrangements of folk songs from Slovenia and Macedonia, many of which were dances. They have toured in other European countries though this is their first visit to England - as well as stunning harmonies, their passion for their homeland and its wild landscape is totally evident in their singing.
- Slovene Dance Group, August 2007.
- The Folklorna Skupina Jurij Vodovnik Skomarje dancers visit Sedbergh in traditional costume for a workshop and concert accompanied by live music from their musicans.
- Sedbergh Singers Visit Zreče - August 2007.
- A small group of seven singers from Sedbergh visited Zreče
- Slovene Women Singers, May 2007.
- The birds had some stiff competition in May when the Pevke iz Brinjeve Gore came to visit. There was hardly a corner of Sedbergh where the five women singers from Zrece coudln't be heard singing their delightful arrangements of traditional Slovene folk songs.
- Folk Carol Festival, December 2006.
- The Folk Carols festival at the beginning of December had all the ingredients of another very fine Christmas story - wise men coming from the east; the protagonists staying in a lonely barn, and a lady on the verge of giving birth.
- Howgills Harmony Tour Slovenia, August 2006.
- Singing Slovenia - Christmas 2005.
- The Slovene singing group Odmev Kvartet came to Sedbergh to join our Folk Carol event at the beginning of December. There name means Echo, so it was perhaps appropriate that we echoed their visit with our own singers going out to Zreče at Christmas to sing in their carol singing events.
- English and Slovene Folk Carols 2005.
- Sedbergh and Dentdale Festival of English and Slovene Folk Carols - December 2005.
- Zreče Youth Choir Visit to Sedbergh - August 2005.
- A youth choir from Zreče visited Sedbergh to see something of the local countryside, meet other musicians, visit an English city, exchange dances and songs and to perform in a concert with the Town Band.
- Slovene-Sedbergh Singing Weekend May 2005.
- A visit from four burly farmers in rabbit skin hats and immaculate suits, a folk group called Ljudski Pevci iz Stranic, which translates as "Folk Singers from Stranic".
- Sedbergh Singers sing Slovenia, April 2005.
- Cautley Carollers in Zreče at Easter 2005.
- Christmas in Zreče 2004.
- The Cautley Carollers visit Zreče.
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