Belgium offers a warm welcome to music groups all year round. Many churches welcome recitals from visiting choirs: from the Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk and Sint-Salvator Cathedral in Bruges, to St Pauluskerke in Ghent. It is possible to perform at Antwerp or Brussels Cathedrals as well as retirement homes in Ostend and Ghent. In addition, local schools offer a supportive and welcoming environment with a guaranteed audience. During the summer, the resorts of Blankenberge, Ostend and De Haan invite visiting groups to perform in their purpose-built bandstands and seafront promenades to entertain locals and tourists alike. Performances are also possible in the Bobbejaanland Theme Park. Choirs and bands can also perform as part of the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres.
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4 Days to Brussels
Day 1:
Depart from school and travel by coach to Belgium, check-in to your hotel before your first evening meal.
Day 2:
After breakfast at your hotel, spend the day in Bruges, visitin a chocolate factory in the morning. during the afternoon perform in the Ryelandtzaal Concert Hall, a late baroque church converted into a 200-seat concert hall. Bowling in the evening before return to the hotel.
Day 3:
Visit Brussels: see the Cathedral and the Musical Instruments Museum (displaying 1200 incredible instruments assembled over 4 different galleries). Perform an evening performance in Blankenberge Parish Hall before returning to your hotel for your last evening meal.
Day 4:
Depart by coach from Belgium in the morning and arrive back at school later that day.
