Association Day of the Westerwald Choral Association in Hattert
agenda
the Association Day of the Chorverband Westerwald e.V.
on Sunday, 01.03.2026 at 14:30
in the Rothbachhalle, Hütterstr. 18, 57644 Hattert
Registration delegates from 1:45 p.m.)
1. Welcome by the hosting association
2. Welcome by the spokesperson of the association management of the choir association WW Alfred Labonte
3. Homage to the dead
4. Approval of the agenda, if necessary requests
5. Greetings from the guests of honour
Representatives of the district administration
Mayor of the Association
Mayor of the town
6. Detection/notification of presence
7. Annual reports (table template)
a) Chorverband WW – Finanzverwaltung Raimund Schäfer
b) Choir Association WW - Musical Director Mario Siry
c) Choir Association WW - Promotion of children and young talent Katharina Kühn
d) Choir Association WW - Association leader Alfred Labonte
8. Exchange of views on the reports
——— 20 min break ———
9. Report of the auditors and discharge of the Board of Management
10. Choice of the next meeting venue and the auditors
11. Decision amending the Statutes – see Annex –
12. By-election of the head of the association
13. honours
14. Info Planning Events and projects in the choir association WW - 2026/2027
15. Information from CV RLP and Region I
16. Information Innovations GEMA
17. Addition of group and club dates
18. Miscellaneous
Dear Sangesfreunde/innen,
The 2026 Singers' Day of the Westerwald Choral Association will take place on Sunday, 1 March 2026 at 2:30 p.m. in the Rothbachhalle Hattert, (Hütter Str. 18, 57644 Hattert).
We cordially invite you and ask that each association send delegates according to the enclosed delegate key.
The agenda is attached to this letter.
On the one hand, the annual Association Day of the Westerwald Choral Association is intended to inform about the activities and planning in the Westerwald Choral Association and the Executive Board reports on the association events and activities and planning. On the other hand, the Association Day also offers the chance for the clubs to contribute their ideas regarding the future association work, the support provided by the association and to pass on their own information. Therefore, the participation of all clubs should be self-evident.
In accordance with the articles of association, applications to be dealt with on the day of the association must be submitted to the association management (Alfred Labonte, Westerwaldstraße) no later than 20 February 2026 (date of receipt). 7, 56412 Horbach) in writing and substantiated.
So that appropriate planning can be carried out, we address the request to each association, a feedback to the Managing Director of CV Westerwald, Mr. Lothar Riebel,> lothar-riebel@onlinehome.de To be sent by 20.02.2026, with the names of the participating delegates. Please also inform us of fixed club dates (concerts, anniversary events, etc.) by 20.02.2026.
Thank you for this constructive cooperation and support.
With kind singer greetings
management
Choir association Westerwald
Report Association Day 2026 in Hattert
Westerwald Choral Association Day – 01.03.2026 in Hattert
Tanja Machalet takes over as Head of the Choir Association – Alfred Labonte appointed Honorary Chairman
At the Association Day of the Westerwald Choir Association, the management of the association was reorganized. In the future, Dr. Tanja Machalet will lead the choir association instead of Alfred Labonte, who already wanted to give the office in younger hands at the last election, and try to give new impulses. Alfred Labonte was appointed Honorary Chairman for his services to the Choir Association.
Previously, the activities of the past year were examined and the plans of the current year and the following years were presented.
78 delegates from 45 associations and 9 board members attended the Association Day, which
the MGV Hattert in the Rothbachhalle was well looked after organizationally. After the musical welcome by the local choir under the direction of Bruno Bmüller and the welcome by the previous chairman Klaus Krämer, Chairman Alfred Labonte opened the Association Day. In your greetings, the members of the Westerwaldkreis Gabi Wieland, the members of the association community Hachenburg Nathalie Benner and the mayor of the community Klaus-Peter Enders emphasized the importance of the choirs in the Westerwald.
The head of the financial administration Raimund Schäfer reported on a solid cash situation and made it clear that the choir association carried out the project choir classes with 8 primary schools with a total of 10 classes in the school year 2024/25. This was made possible by the financial contributions of the Westerwaldkreis and two association municipalities. Unfortunately, the support of the Westerwaldkreis expired in 2025. Nevertheless, the choir association continues this successful project and in the school year 2025/26 performs 9 choir classes at 5 primary schools and tries to attract other partners for this project.
The musical director Mario Siry addressed the project ChorAktiv, which was successfully presented last year on the market square Bad Marienberg. He also re-examined the project "Chorclasses" and referred to the complementary measures the Continuing education of primary school teachers, which was held in autumn 2025 as a post-secondary seminar. A new project ‘Westerwälder Spatzen’ is being implemented for the children’s choir area. With the resumption of the meeting of the children's choirs, this area is to be more closely networked in order to promote the further development of the children's choirs.
Alfred Labonte, spokesman for the association's management, outlined the past activities in the choir association, went into detail about the status of the work on the cultural development plan of the state government and criticized the insufficient political will to install cultural work as a mandatory municipal service. He congratulated all choirs that celebrated a round anniversary last year and referred to the numerous honors that were awarded to singers in the Westerwald last year.
Prior to the re-election of the association's management, the articles of association were amended with regard to the composition of the board of directors. The first official act of the new head of the association Tanja Machalet was the appointment of Alfred Labonte as honorary chairman in order to pay tribute to his services to the choir association.
At the presentation of the association dates, Raimund Schäfer highlighted the planned children's and youth choir singing for 2026 on 14.06.2026 in Hillscheid, stated that the choir association will carry out further training measures for volunteers and functionaries and that the Westerwälder Chorfest is again in the planning as a major choral event in 2027. For the choir association Rhineland-Palatinate, he referred to the Candoro performance singing in November and advertised for the participation in this succession of the master choir singing, in which the choirs of the Westerwald were always very successful, for Region I to the planned seminars ‘Singen nach Noten’ and ‘Chorische Stimmbildung’ and the Night of the Choirs on 1 August 2026 in Hachenburg. The list of dates of the clubs shows that the clubs in the Westerwald will again have many different choral events in preparation in 2026, so that the motto ‘singing together, happy together, strong together – the Westerwalds’ is happily actively lived in the choirs.
Next year, the MGV Harmonie-Liederkranz Eschelbach will host the Association Day in the Chorgruppe Süd.
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