The “59th Nishinomiya Citizens’ Chorus Festival” will be held at Amity Hall on July 14.
Performing Groups
1 Nishinomiya Meisho Yamanokai Chorus Yamabiko
2 Nishinomiya Chuo Choir
3 Chor Amabile
4 Women’s Ensemble Nishinomiya
5 Shiose Mixed Chorus
6 Cosmos no Uta Choir
7 Koshien Choir
8 Shin-san’s Chorus Class
9 Sweet Voice
10 Coro Platano
11 Ensemble Amabile
12 Mukogawa Women’s University Open College Choir
13 Miyamizu Seishun Sakura
14 Rakushokai
15 Chor Matsuho
16 Chor Primavera
17 Koyo Gakuin Parents’ Association Chorus
18 Mixed Chorus “Narune”
19 Group Alouette
20 Women’s Choir Clover Echo
21 Ensemble Pirika
22 Utagoe Salon Koshikiiwa Hirota no Mori Choir
23 Wends Four
24 Hirota Azalea
25 Nishinomiya Boys and Girls Choir
26 Women’s Choir Satsuki
27 Miyamizu Gakuen Male Choir Vivace
28 Chor Seraphim
29 Shukugawa Chorus
30 Paradise Q
31 Chamber Choir Ebessance
32 Chor Forest
33 Nishinomiya Mixed Choir
34 Ensemble NATURA~LE
35 Nishinomiya Frauen Chor
36 Kwansei Gakuin Bates Hall Choir
37 Women’s Choir Buonumore
38 Celestina Male Choir
Nishinomiya and Choral Music
A total of 38 choirs will be performing. As expected from Nishinomiya, “the town where people encounter music.”
There’s a wide variety of groups, from children’s choruses and mothers’ choruses to male choirs, local choirs, and school-based choirs.
Nishinomiya is a city full of music, and choral singing is actually very active here as well.
In addition to the groups listed above, you can often see many other choirs practicing almost every week at community centers and other venues.
School clubs are also doing wonderful work, including the Kwansei Gakuin Glee Club, Japan’s oldest male choir, the chorus club at Hyogo Prefectural Nishinomiya High School, which has a music department, and the chorus clubs at Mukogawa Women’s University Junior and Senior High School, which have been achieving great results in competitions every year in recent years.
Choral singing is easy for anyone to start, seems good for your health, helps you make more friends, and has so many good things going for it.
Admission appears to be free, so why not come and listen? And if you enjoy it, maybe you could even try joining a choir yourself.
