Saengerfest 2024: Awarded silver in Pittsburgh
The Toledo Swiss Singers are bringing home silver! The judges awarded the group a silver prize on Sunday, June 23, at Saengerfest , a competition, Swiss singing and yodeling festival held in Pittsburgh June 20-23. The Singers were presented with the special wreath for their mixed-choir prize song “Ma Bella Bimba,” an Italian folk song. Singers president Barb Carr and director Micah Graber accepted the award. Watch their performance below: The Edmonton Swiss Men's Choir was awarded gold at the prize competition for singing "Pays, terre ardente" by Suisse Romande (Swiss French) composer Jean Daetwyler. (Watch their performance on Facebook .) The Singers compete internationally every three years as part of the North American Swiss Singing Alliance (NASSA), made up of 13 choirs from Canada and the U.S. The Singers presented their competition song June 22 and sang in a “grand concert” June 21 with 160 singers from all of the choirs. The grand concert was held at Soldiers &