Christmas singing in Mettmann: Despite the rain, sing together with us!

Christmas singing in Mettmann: Despite the rain, sing together with us!

Next Saturday, December 21st, a very special Christmas singing with Tanja Heesen and Michael will take place in Mettmann. Despite the dark weather forecasts that predict lively, the makers are optimistic: the event that starts at the church on Freiheitstraße at 5 p.m. is simply moved to church in bad weather. This great Christmas singing, which is organized for the first time by the city in cooperation with the Protestant and Catholic parish, is pursuing the goal of combining around 600 people to sing together of Christmas classics such as "Last Christmas" and "O Du Fröhliche". Admission is free, and neither pre -registration nor previous knowledge is necessary. All participants are invited to join the texts that are projected onto the church wall and are also available for download on the city's homepage. The musical director Tanja Heesen has compiled the program in cooperation with Matthias Röttger and receives support from teachers from the city music school and choir singers.

new district cantor Tanja Heesen

Tanja Heesen, who has been working as a district cantor in the church district of Düsseldorf-Mettmann since August 2023, brings her extensive musical experience into the event. The native of Duisburg would like to strengthen the traditions of church music and set new accents with her specialist knowledge and creative energies. Created in a musical family, she showed interest in music early on and finally completed a studies in church music. Her goal as a cantor is to revitalize the traditional cantore and develop various musical projects. This also includes the performance of the "Cäcilienmesse of Joseph Haydn"-another sign of her passion, such as Erkrath. Jetzen.