Aarhus Vocal Festival - Day 2 - May 12, 2006

Things got off to a great start today - food is included in the festival price (about $150 US)
which is nice because it keeps everyone together in a community instead of going out
to "forage"!

Sanna, Pelle, and Lena from the Swedish group reSOUND! take advantage of the Danish sunshine!
reSOUND! was formerly known as VeryEight for those of you who follow European A Cappella.

Hans Cassa of Montezuma's Revenge from Holland, confers with Joakim Skog of reSound!
reSOUND! is doing one of Hans' arrangements, so they did a quick "picnic table clinic"!
video here

After lunch, 6 concerts in 3 hours!! Starting on the small stage we had Germany's Niniwe,
a powerful, haunting blend of 4 female voices.

Next up was Denmark's Rockkoret

Two giants of the Vocal World - Italy's Andrea Figallo and Dr. Matthias Becker from Germany.
Andrea is CASA's Ambassador for Italy, by the way!

First view of the "medium" stage - Vox11, from Denmark, had just performed (not pictured) and
Holland's Just Us takes the stage.

Back in the small hall (known as the "Ridehuset", where they used to train horses),
Korinord performs, yet another Danish group!

At the same time, on the medium stage, another local Aarhus group performs - Can't Help It.


In a clinic with Matthias Becker, reSOUND! gets some tips while Just Us looks on.

A beautiful Aarhus day by the river!

Inside the huge lobby of beautiful Aarhus Musikhuset!

The "Medium" stage is tucked off in one corner of this wonderful building.

As promised, now we get to see the "Big" stage for the first time, from balcony level.
Since the event is sold out, I get to be up in the nosebleed section, but everything still
sounds awesome up here!

Using telephoto, we see Vocal Line, from right here in Aarhus, about to perform.
Video here!

The Real Group. 5 voices. The rest is some sort of magic!

They put on a spectacular show...

...and especially enjoyed performing tonight knowing that a large percentage
of the audience are fellow singers! Nearly all of the 1588 seats in the hall were filled!

Video Here!

The afterglow tradition is pretty much the same everywhere! After the show, Aquijazz, a group from Portugal,
thank Peter and Anders from the Real Group by serenading them. They join in, of course, in true afterglow tradition!

Then the after-afterparty... another A Cappella tradition! Here I am with Andrea Figallo...

...and a rather stunned-looking Peder Karlsson of The Real Group
(the flash wouldn't go off, so this was try #7 or something!)

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