About Decades

About Decades

Decades is a choir for everyone.
There are plenty of choirs for men, women, students, or elderly people only. That's why we have a different approach. At Decades, you sing with everyone. Young and old, people that have lived in the Netherlands for years, and exchange students. Singing doesn't know any age or nationality. That's why we do it together.

We perform in places that matter. We sing in places where people don't hear a lot of music. Places like hospitals, jails and asylum seekers centers.

The Decades group mix

We want to keep Decades as mixed as possible, to make sure young and old keep singing together. Therefore, we are careful not to fill our entire choir with people in their twenties, or in their sixties. We want to keep groups (people in their twenties, thirties, fourties - our decades) approximately the same size. As a result, you may have to wait for a bit until we can admit you to our choir, because this balance may otherwise be lost. There are currently approximately thirty choir members (It is good to know that Decades is a foundation, which means that the choir members are not strictly speaking "members" in the legal sense of the word). People of different ages are registering with us and the balance between ages is good at the moment. See the graph below for the distribution per decade. We are also well balanced in terms of voice distribution. There is always room for an enthusiastic choir member, so don't hesitate to join us!

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