Children- and Youthchoir Tåbukki

Tåbukki is an enthousiastic group of children and youngsters who meet each other every week to sing together. Although singing is the main purpose of our group, being together to have fun and to do activities together are also important issues.

Tåbukki consists of 6 groups:

Our ‘Ukkies’, the youngest of all, are children between 5 and 8 years old. They come together each week to sing wellknown songs from Dutch or Flemish groups or artists. Although singing is what they do, the main purpuse is to have fun together as a group.

The second group, the ‘Kids’ are children between 8 and 12 years.
They weekly come together for 1,5 hour to sing together with their group. They also like to sing in Dutch. Beside well known songs from radio, they also like songs from Walt Disney pictures. For them too having fun in singing together is more important than quality.

The third group are teenagers between 12 and 16 years and are called the 'Teens'.
They sing weekly together too and like more English spoken songs. Most of the time they sing popsongs that are well known from radio and television. But they also like songs from musicals or Disney pictures. As you can see in the picture below, they are our most active group ...

Our oldest group, the ‘Åndz’ are between 16 and 25 years.
Most of them joined our choir while still being Kids our Teens. So they know us very well and we know them. This is an interesting base to do more then just singing. Of course, singing is what the Åndz like to do most. They sing in English, Dutch, Spanish or even a non-existing language (e.g. in Adiemus). They often try to do this in different voices.
While the Ukkies, Kids and Teens have a yearly 'Easter Camp', the Åndz try to extend their horizon.
That's how they went to Turkey in 2004 with a group from Genk (Belgium) and participated in an
international exchange program in 2005 in Estonia (along with a group from Finland and Spain).
Both experiences were very good, so they like to do things like that again.

So, are you a member of a group which is interested in doing an exchange with our Åndz, don't hesitate and send us a mail (use the link below). We are interested to come to you but also to be your host.

Our fifth group, the ‘Band’, are youngsters who play an instrument and who have rehearsal every week. We write arrangements ourselfs so that everyone who likes to play an instrument, will be able to do so. Last year, our band consisted of 6 musicians, playing Horn, Piano, Keyboard, Drums, Guitar, Bass, Marimba and Percussion.

Our last group (at the moment) is 'K'baal'. It's a percussion group that likes to perform in an other way than percussion groups usual do. Instead of beating on drums, conga etc, they use buckets, barrels, dustbins ... We raised this group for youngsters who like to make music, but never had some experience to do so.

In total, Tåbukki vzw has about 70 members, including the people who run the organisation.
If you want to know more about us, send us a mail and we will defenitly answer it very soon.