Gozo International Choir Festival

The first edition of the Gozo International Choir Festival kicks off tonight, featuring 14 choirs from Gozo, Italy, the UK, Estonia and Hungary performing in three prominent village parish churches – St Peter and St Paul’s Basilica in Nadur, the Nativity of Our Lady’s Basilica in Xagħra and St John’s Rotunda in Xewkija. Choral activity in Gozo has characterised the small townscapes, especially during the festive periods. Just as every town and village prided its own basilica or rotunda, with iconic domes and steeples, every community manned and sustained some kind of children or adult choir. This important role of choral activity will be celebrated as local choirs join international ones in one big festival of choral singing. Furthermore, it will also provide an opportunity for local choral bodies to demonstrate the great strides that choir singing has registered in the last decades. Euro Art Productions (Italy) and Leon Promotions (Malta), who are behind the festival, have a vast experience in organising such international events both locally and in other  European countries. The participating choirs are the Aurora Youth, the Regina Angelorium, the Gaulitanus, the Laudate...