This year, Gaulitana: A Festival of Music is coming to its listeners’ homes with a series of online performances. Festival manager Pierre-Louis Attard spe
The 14th edition of Gaulitana: A Festival of Music, which had to be postponed in view of the health restrictions which came into effect in March, has now been r
Celebrating a choir’s pearl anniversary at a time when most have been silenced worldwide is surely depressing, not least for Gozo’s Gaulitanus Choir. Its various scheduled 2020 events had to be cancelled, with its last ‘normal’ event taking place on January 1.
Still, the organisation persevered, doing its utmost to enhance positivity through virtual contributions and some COVID-compliant public concerts. It was also a time to look back on its past.
The Gaulitanus Choir was launched in 1990. Before that, its founder-director, Mro Colin Attard, then starting to make the rounds in musical circles, used to form ad hoc choral groups whenever needed, with choristers hailing from all over Gozo. However, upon being entrusted with two large-scale events for the Qala parish, it was decided that the choral group be formalised and named. The name ‘Gaulitanus’, meaning ‘of Gozo’, was chosen.