The Â鶹AV City Concert Band will team up with a group from the Netherlands later this month to present a concert at the Â鶹AV Community Theatre aimed at highlighting the city’s relationship with its Dutch sister-city, Veendam
Celebration of Canada and The Netherlands, with special guest, the Veendam Winkler Prins Harmonie, is scheduled for Saturday, April 29, 7 p.m. at the Â鶹AV Community Theatre.
The Veendam Winkler Prins Harmonie, a community band made up of high school students and adults from Veendam, will be in Â鶹AV from April 27 to 30 as part of a six-city tour of B.C. and Alberta. The tour marks Canada’s Sesquicentennial, or 150th birthday, the band’s 40th anniversary, and the 37-year of the sister-city relationship between Â鶹AV and Veendam.
The band has a longstanding relationship with what was KLO Secondary School, and now with KLO Middle School, going back more than 20 years starting with the first reciprocal band exchange in 1995. and now Since then, there have been continuing regular student cultural exchanges.
In 2016, Winkler Prins students visited Â鶹AV and in 2018 KLO Middle School students will visit Veendam to learn more about the historical connection between Â鶹AV and Veendam, originating with the role played by Â鶹AV-area troops in the liberation of Holland in 1945.
The Â鶹AV City Concert Band has its own long history to celebrate. The band was formed in 1894 and pre-dates the City of Â鶹AV by 19 years. All musicians—students and adults of all ages—are welcome to join the historic group.
Tickets for the special one-night-only concert April 29 cost $10 for students, $15 for seniors 65 and older and $20 for adults. They are available at Â鶹AV Tickets and, if available, will also be available the door.
