Press Release

September 2012, the “Holland Christian Male Choir” will visit Ontario.

September 15th, 116 people will leave Amsterdam for their flight to Toronto. The group consists of 65 members of the “Holland Christian Male Choir” and their partners. They would like to meet a lot of Canadian people at the concerts they have planned. Of course they hope to meet a lot of immigrants as well, those who left Holland years ago. At the moment the choir is working on a special program for this tour. This time it will be very special, because they will be accompanied by Freddy Veldkamp as director. Freddy Veldkamp is well known from Dutch television. He has been on tour in Europe and Canada as a director with various choirs for several times. The organist of the choir is Harm Hoeve, also a well known person in Holland from Dutch television. As director of several choirs like ‘Stereo” Genemuiden and “Het Groot Nederlands Jeugdkoor” Harm Hoeve also made several trips to Canada and the USA with the choirs mentioned. Last but not least Noortje van Middelkoop will accompany the choir. She is a very famous panpipes player and has concerts all over Europe but also in Canada and the United States. She is also well known from Dutch television and recorded several albums. There will be various concerts. The choir will have concerts with Freddy Veldkamp, Harm Hoeve and Noortje van Middelkoop, but Harm Hoeve and Noortje van Middelkoop will do instrumental concerts on organ and panpipes as well. Don’t miss it! If you want to meet the choir and their musicians Freddy Veldkamp, Harm Hoeve and Noortje van Middelkoop, or Harm Hoeve and Noortje van Middelkoop at their instrumental concerts, plan your visit(s) and make your choice:

The Concert Program

Tuesday September 18 th , Ancaster, Redeemer College Auditorium at 08.00 pm “ Holland Christian Male Choir” in concert, with Freddy Veldkamp as director, Harm Hoeve on the organ and on panpipes Noortje van Middelkoop, also “Musica Sacra Chorus”, www.musicasacrachorus.com with Johann VanIttersum as director, James van den Brink on the organ. Redeemer University, Website: www.redeemer.ca 277 Garner Road East, Ancaster, Ontario, L9K 1J4 Info: 905-648-2131. Contact person: Yolanda Bax [email protected]

Wednesday September 19 th , Grimsby, Mountainvieuw Christian Reformed Church at 08.00 pm “Holland Christian Male Choir” in concert, with Freddy Veldkamp as director, Harm Hoeve on the organ and on panpipes Noortje van Middelkoop. Mountainview Christian Reformed Church, Website: www.mountainvieuwcrc.ca 290 Main St. West, Grimsby. Ontario, L3M 1P8 Info: 905- 945-0004 (ext: 228) Contact person: Nelly Baarda [email protected]

Thursday September 20 th : Woodstock , Church Of Epiphany at 08.00 PM “Instrumental concert”, with Harm Hoeve on organ and Noortje van Middelkoop on panpipes. Church Of Epiphany Website: http://epiphaniych.com/home/0/0/0, 560 Dundas Street, Woodstock, Ontario. N4S 1C7 Phone Church Office: 519-537-3921 Contact person: Laura [email protected]

Friday September 21st: Brampton, Holland Christian Homes at 01:30 pm “Holland Christian Male Choir” in concert, with Freddy Veldkamp as director, Harm Hoeve on the organ and on panpipes Noortje van Middelkoop. Holland Christian Homes Website: www.hch.ca 7900 McLaughlin Road, Brampton, Ontario, L6Y5A7 Information: 905-459-3333. Contact person: Wilma [email protected] or [email protected]

Friday September 21st, Georgetown, Christian Reformed Church at 08 PM “Holland Christian Male Choir” in concert, with Freddy Veldkamp as director, Harm Hoeve on the organ and on panpipes Noortje van Middelkoop also “Liberation Choir” with Sharon Sandink director. www.liberationchoir.com. Christian Reformed Church, Website: www.gcrc.on.ca 11611 Trafalgar, Georgetown, Ontario, L7G 4T1 Information: 905-877-4322. Contact person: Christine Buikema: [email protected] or [email protected]

Saturday September 22nd, Whitby, Durham Christian Homes at 1:30 PM “Holland Christian Male Choir” in concert, with Freddy Veldkamp as director, Harm Hoeve on the organ and on panpipes Noortje van Middelkoop. Durham Christian Homes, Website: www.dchomes.ca 200 Glen Hill Drive South, Whitby, Ontario, L1N 9W2 Information: 905-430-1666 (223) Contact person: Darlene Douma: [email protected]

Saturday September 22 nd : Trenton , Ebenezer Christian Reformed Church at 08.00 pm “Instrumental concert”, with Harm Hoeve organ and Noortje van Middelkoop panpipes. Ebenezer Christian Reformed Church Website: http://www.ebenezercrc.ca/tp40/Default.asp?ID=9353 Ebenezer 18 Fourth Ave. Trenton, ON K8V 5N3 Church Phone: (613) 394-5046 Contact Person Gary Haveman (Music Coordinator) [email protected] Information: 613 398 6121 ? Office Administrator: Dianne teBrake [email protected]

Monday September 24 th : Kingston, First Christian Reformed Church at 08.00 pm “Holland Christian Male Choir” in concert, with Freddy Veldkamp as director, Harm Hoeve on the organ and on panpipes Noortje van Middelkoop. First Christian Reformed Church Website: www.firstcrckingston.ca 310 Kingscourt, Kingston, Ontario, K7K 4R3 Information: 613-542-8350. Contact person: Bill Kuipers [email protected]

Tuesday September 25 th , Brockville , Bethel Christian Reformed Church, at 08.00 pm “Instrumental concert”, with Harm Hoeve organ and Noortje van Middelkoop panpipes. Bethel Christian Reformed Church Website: http://www.bethel-crc.com/ 117 Windsor Drive, Brockville, Ontario K6V 5V5 Administrative Assistant: Renee Brunsting [email protected] Information: (613) 345-2050 Contact person: Mike Van Dyke [email protected]

Wednesday September 26 th , Ottawa, Calvin Christian Reformed Church, at 08.00 pm “Holland Christian Male Choir” in concert, with Freddy Veldkamp as director, Harm Hoeve on the organ and on panpipes Noortje van Middelkoop also “The Ottawa Carleton Male Choir” with Margaret van Dyk as director, Tina van Vlaanderen on piano. www.ottawacarletonmalechoir.com Calvin Christian Reformed Church Website: www.calvincrc.ca 1475 Merivale Rd. Ottawa, Ontario, K2E 5N9 Information: 613-293-9046. Contact person: Henk Huizinga [email protected]

Thursday September 27 th , Peterborough , Cephas Christian Reformed Church, at 08.00 pm “Good By Evening” with Harm Hoeve organ and Noortje van Middelkoop panpipes Cephas Christian Reformed Church. Website: http://www.freewebs.com/cephas/index.html Christian Reformed Church 220 Goodfellow Road Peterborough, Ontario K9J 5X3 Secretary Lynda Bult [email protected] Info 05 743 4904/4544 Contact person: Julie Deck [email protected]

We hope to meet you at one (or more) of our concerts, you are very welcome: The members of “Liberation Choir” from Hamilton/Burlington The members of “Musica Sacra Choru”s from Woodstock The members of “The Ottawa Carleton Male Choir” from Ottawa The members of “Holland Christian Male Choir” from the Netherlands Margaret van Dyk – Tina van Vlaanderen – Sharon Sandink – Johan van Ittersum – James van den Brink – Freddy Veldkamp – Harm Hoeve and Noortje van Middelkoop

Kind regards:

Duin Consultancy, Boele Duin and Greetje Duin (organisation)