As part of the Danube Festival, ‘Sing & Swing along the Danube’ took place once again on 13 July 2024 on the Danube stage in Neu-Ulm. Participants from the Danube Networkers partner meeting gave an insight into their respective cultures with songs and poems (among other things). Choirs, singers and dancers from Ulm and other parts of Germany also took part with contributions worth seeing and hearing.
The weather gods were kind, so that the numerous spectators were able to follow the varied programme under dry skies.
The following participants made the successful event possible with their contributions:
- the Philharmonic Choir of the Helmholtz-Gymnasium Karlsruhe under the direction of Manuel Nonnenmann
- the Ukrainian children’s choir from Ulm under the direction of Anna Ilnitska
- Rodica Maciuca from Romania, who presented the significance of the traditional blouse IA,
- Milena Milusheva from Ulm, who sang a Bulgarian song,
- the Bulgarian dance group MOST from Ulm,
- Tomislav and Vojislav Milunov and Tatijana Petrika from Serbia, who recited poems and a song,
- Ukrainians living in Ulm, Anna Ilnitska, who performed a piece on the piano and accompanied the Ukrainian choir, and Sinaida Rotar, who sang a Ukrainian piece,
- the Ukrainian choir ‘Stefania’ from Ulm under the direction of Nadia Klym,
- Gabi Flemming from Ulm with a German song,
- Ivanka Baltova and Hristina Marinova from Bulgaria, who each sang a song
- Nadeshda Hapkova from Slovakia with a potpourri of short songs
- the youth choir from Schickhardt-Gymnasium Herrenberg under the direction of Patrick Erhard and
- the Saitenspringer from Ulm, who performed various dances.
The audience was also involved: Everyone present sang the European anthem together with a new, up-to-date text by Dorothee Müller, which created a unifying moment. And at the end, the Saitenspringer and the Bulgarian dance group MOST enticed the audience to dance together.
