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Worldwide Candle Lighting (Wereldlichtjesdag). The second Sunday of December the children that passed away are remembered. At 7 PM candles are lit around the world for these children. I am honoured to be invited to sing during the commemoration in ‘s Hertogenbosch, for the second time yesterday.
Playing Spanish music for the Saint Nicolas celebration in Brunswijck, a home for the elderly in Eindhoven.
For my non-Dutch friends, Saint Nicolas was a Greek bishop from the town of Myra, nowadays in Turkey. He is the patron saint of children and in Dutch tradition he arrives from Spain in a steamboat every year in December, bringing sweets and gifts for the children that have been good. From Spain, not Turkey, hence the Spanish music... |
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