Music is the food of the soul, singing in a chorus deeply unites us with others, creates strange and solid bonds because it takes us on a journey where each uniqueness mixes with the others to create the harmony of major and subtle chords. 
In 2024 we´ve had several concerts in Tavira, São Bras de Alportel and even Calpe (Spain). Therefore, it felt good to finally have a full concert at our homebase, the charming and comfortable Republica14 Cultural Centre in Olhão. With a sold out concert, chairs in the isles and people standing, it felt like a warm welcome and a true homecoming.
Our next step is the European competition in Sweden in May 2025. It is the gold medal won in Spain in April 2024 that propels us to Sweden, it is stressful, magical and stimulating. 
All our efforts will be concentrated towards this objective, several weekends of coaching, hours of rehearsal, stage preparations, changes in our costumes, in short... an adventure…Weekend 23/24 November was an amazing coaching under the spell of Mieneke Klinkert, musical director of The Skyline Sisters Dutch Barbershop chorus. It was intense, hard work, learning, feeling, getting out of our comfort zone and much more…

Other weekends are planned as well as dress rehearsal concerts in Spring 2025. We will let you know when and where.
To get our ship to the shores of Helsingborg, we have created a fundraising campaign, here is the link: https://gofund.me/1a9a487c  Thank you for supporting us !

But now the holiday mood is starting to set in. We still have three rehearsals before Christmas and a well deserved break until the middle of January.
We wish all our friends and followers a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We are looking forward to keeping you updated regarding our activities during 2025.

Summer is slowly fading away and here we are, back to rehearsals!
And already on the first night back we had two new leads completing their audition process. Welcome as full members, Ana and Finn!!
After a semester full of coachings, concerts, competition and a gold medal in Spain, we are back in our starting blocks to deliver three concerts, learn new songs and integrate our new members. A lot of work and a lot of laughs.

Sweden 2025
All our efforts will be focused on our competition songs for next year, since thanks to our 2024 gold medal in Spain, we are qualified to go and compete at the European Barbershop Convention in Helsingborg, Sweden in May 2025. Coachings to come, hours of work and rehearse and well, let’s try to make our dream come true! This competition comes with quite a high cost for travel, accommodation etc. For this reason we have started a “Go-fund-me”. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-bella-acapella and we will appreciate every contribution. In our next newsletter we will inform you of our progress to achieve our goal.

Please, check out our new website!
It’s still the same address www.bellaacapella.pt but otherwise new. Amongst other features there is a possibility to sign up for our new way of keeping you all informed about our activities - a Newsletter, which will be sent out 3 - 4 times per year. Since you are already a dear friend of Bella Acapella you have already been added to our Newsletter mailing list. We hope that you will like the website and our newsletter and that you will recommend it to your friends. 

Our concerts to come : 

• Street concert at the Bordeira Com Vida Festival, Saturday 14th of September @ 18h00
• Tavira, Música nas Igrejas, Igreja do Carmo, Saturday 5th of October @ 18h00
• Olhão, Re-Criativa, Sunday 27th of October @ 16h00, reservation via reservas@republica14.pt