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Various Voices Brussels 2026 is becoming more and more concrete! Choirs can now register for the festival. Registration is possible at the ‘Early’ rate until 31 December 2024. Thereafter, the ‘Regular’ rate will apply until 31 December 2025. Registration for delegates will open in January 2025. Choir members cannot register if their choir has not…

The Hand in Hand Festival was exceptionally open to a continental choir this year. Organised every two years, the event brought together some forty choirs and around 1,400 singers from all over the British Isles. As the organising choir for the next Various Voices Festival, Sing Out Brussels! was invited to take part. Around thirty…

As part of the “Rendez-vous à Bruxelles” organised by Legato, the host choir of the forthcoming festival Sing Out Brussels! organised “Various Voices Rising”, a show bringing together three LGBTQI+ choirs on stage to launch an appeal for European solidarity. Voces Gaudii (Warsaw, Poland), DynamiQ Voices (Utrecht, Netherlands) and of course Sing Out Brussels! performed…

Organised by Legato, this “Rendez-vous in Brussels” brought together around twenty people from choirs that are members of this European federation of LGBTQI+ choirs. Coming from Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Norway, the participants enjoyed a weekend in the capital of the European Union, two years before the official opening of the…

Join us for a night where LGBTQIA+ solidarity crosses borders, as three European choirs come together on stage for a vibrant pop concert with a strong message! Together, let’s raise our voices for equality and sing for a Europe where everyone is free to be who they are! Various Voices Rising is a musical prelude…

Legato, the European federation of LGBTQI+ choirs, is organizing its first “Legato Leadership College” in Brussels on Friday June 14, 2024. This day of meetings and exchanges will bring together conductors and choir leaders from all over Europe. The workshop program is available on the Legato website. On Saturday June 15, the “Rendez-vous à Bruxelles”…

The Sing Out Brussels! choir, which will be hosting the Various Voices festival in Brussels in 2026, will be a guest at the Hand in Hand festival in August 2024. This festival, organised since 2013, brings together LGBTQI+ choirs from the UK and Ireland. Sing Out Brussels! will be the only continental choir taking part.…

What’s special about Various Voices is that its main source of funding comes from the choirs and singers who take part. Since its creation nearly 40 years ago, this festival has become huge and requires significant resources, particularly to hire sufficiently large venues. The public authorities are generally prepared to support this event, but ask…

“I am delighted to finally be able to officially announce that I have been appointed Artistic Director of the European Various Voices Festival, which will take place in the Belgian capital in 2026”, says Simon Paco. “It’s an exceptional event that takes place every 4 years in a different European country, welcoming LGBTQIA+ choirs from…

On November 15th was the annual general meeting of Various Voices Brussels 2026, the association set up to organise the festival in the name of Sing Out Brussels! Our team gave an update on the progress of the project and our budget. The members then elected the new board. Meet them on this page. We…