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Amsterdam has many colourful faces and places. You probably know about the 165 romantic canals with nearly 1300 bridges, the 600.000 (!) bikes, it’s famous nightlife and the beautiful flower markets. However, Amsterdam offers more. It has fascinating places of interest; historic monuments, arts and antiques in quaint quarters and fashionable, upscale products on chic shopping streets. Famous museums like the Rijksmuseum (with e.g. the Night watch by Rembrandt), the Van Gogh museum or the Anne Frank Museum bring take you back to the early days of the Netherlands.

The canals are one of the most famous attractions of Amsterdam. Elegant mansions stand along the Herengracht, Prinsengracht and the Keizersgracht canals. Most of them built during the Golden Era and all of them are built on wooden pools. In the course of the centuries these houses have been renovated to meet chancing tastes and while taking a walk along these canals you will see beautiful examples.

Individual concerts will be held in Amsterdam and surroundings to get the experience to sing for a real Dutch audience. Venues are like churches, concert halls and senior houses. Friendship concerts bring a guest choir with 2 –3 foreign choirs together and arrange international contacts and atmosphere for all participants. During the common concert, all participating choirs present themselves with a song to their choice in a concert hall in the centre of Amsterdam, the last common song is of course “Tulips from Amsterdam” in Dutch language. .

The common concert is followed by a gala-dinner with music and an extraordinary buffet in a congress hall. This candle-light evening will be in the mind of the participants for a long time! If you extend your stay for one night, you have to opportunity to sing during a mass in for example the beautiful English church situated in the “begijnhof” in Amsterdam.

The common song at the end of all concerts is “Tulpen uit Amsterdam” in the Dutch version, which you can hear here.