Europeade

Europeade 2008 at Martigny, Switzerland

Europeade is the largest festival of European folk culture, held in a different European country each year. The last Europeade was held in Namur, Belgium in 2016.[1] The next will be in Turku, Finland in 2017.[2]

The first Europeade was held in 1964 at the initiative of Mon de Clopper (1922–1998) from Flanders and Robert Müller-Kox, a German exiled from the Province of Silesia. Mon de Clopper was president of the Europeade until 1997, when he was succeeded by the current president Bruno Peeters (born 1939), also from Flanders.

The goal of the Europeade is to foster a united Europe, where everyone contributes and develops his or her own culture, respecting everyone else. This philosophy is practised each year during the five-day festival, when thousands of people from all parts of Europe, dressed in their traditional costumes, meet to sing, to make music, to dance and to celebrate - without formal lecturing.

In a typical Europeade there are about five thousand participants, all in costume, in almost two hundred groups, from about twenty-two countries. They all pay their own transport costs, and perform free of charge. Participants arrive during the Wednesday, and are accommodated in large premises wherever possible, typically in large schools, with basic beds supplied in the class-rooms, and using other school amenities. Large-scale catering is provided, usually a simple breakfast, a packed lunch and a hot evening meal in one central location. Groups perform in a number of large concerts, in designated street locations, and take part in a massed parade through the town and in a major Saturday evening Europeade Ball. Outside the actual events many groups will sing, play and dance wherever they happen to find themselves, including the premises where they are lodged. After the Sunday afternoon Closing Concert - typically ninety groups performing - groups are free to make their way home, but accommodation continues until after breakfast on the Monday morning.

Europeade 2011 event in Tartu festival arena (laululava) in Tartu, Estonia.

Cities where the Europeade was held

  1. 1964 Antwerp, Belgium
  2. 1965 Dortmund, Germany
  3. 1966 Antwerp, Belgium
  4. 1967 Valencia, Spain
  5. 1968 Antwerp, Belgium
  6. 1969 Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium
  7. 1970 Herzogenaurach, Germany
  8. 1971 Antwerp, Belgium
  9. 1972 Annecy, France
  10. 1973 Nuoro, Italy
  11. 1974 Antwerp, Belgium
  12. 1975 Marbella, Spain
  13. 1976 Annecy, France
  14. 1977 Nuoro, Italy
  15. 1978 Vienna, Austria
  16. 1979 Antwerp, Belgium
  17. 1980 Schwalmstadt, Germany
  18. 1981 Martigny, Switzerland
  19. 1982 Gijon, Spain
  20. 1983 Vienna, Austria
  21. 1984 Rennes, France
  22. 1985 Turin, Italy
  23. 1986 Figueira da Foz, Portugal
  24. 1987 Munich, Germany
  25. 1988 Antwerp, Belgium
  26. 1989 Libourne, France
  27. 1990 Valladolid, Spain
  28. 1991 Rennes, France
  29. 1992 Figueira da Foz, Portugal
  30. 1993 Horsens, Denmark
  31. 1994 Frankenberg, Germany
  32. 1995 Valencia, Spain
  33. 1996 Turin, Italy
  34. 1997 Martigny, Switzerland
  35. 1998 Rennes, France
  36. 1999 Bayreuth, Germany
  37. 2000 Horsens, Denmark
  38. 2001 Zamora, Spain
  39. 2002 Antwerp, Belgium
  40. 2003 Nuoro, Italy
  41. 2004 Riga, Latvia. A monument in Riga commemorates this Europeade. It was donated by cities that hosted the Europeade before, on the occasion of the first Europeade in the Baltic States and in a former Soviet republic.
  42. 2005 Quimper, France
  43. 2006 Zamora, Spain
  44. 2007 Horsens, Denmark
  45. 2008 Martigny, Switzerland
  46. 2009 Klaipėda Lithuania
  47. 2010 Bolzano, Italy
  48. 2011 Tartu, Estonia
  49. 2012 Padua, Italy
  50. 2013 Gotha, Germany
  51. 2014 Kielce, Poland
  52. 2015 Helsingborg, Sweden
  53. 2016 Namur, Belgium

Participation by country

For the Europeade 2008 in Martigny (Switzerland) some two hundred groups registered. Their countries of origin were as follows:

For the Europeade 2011 in Tartu (Estonia) over hundred groups registered. Their countries of origin were as follows:

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.europeade2016.be
  2. ↑ http://www.turku.fi/en/europeade2017

Sources

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