Volunteers getting ready for the Europeade

In two weeks, the 2010 Europeade, the biggest European Folk Dance and Music festival, taking place in Bolzano will be kicked off. More than 70 volunteers are already getting ready for this big event. Today (Friday, July 9th) evening at 7 p.m., the briefing and training session for the volunteers will officially start at the Sheraton Hotel in Bolzano.

From July 21st to July 25th, more than 5,500 folk dancers, musicians and singers coming from 30 European countries will participate in this year's Europeade. For over a year, the Local Organizing Committee of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Volkstanz South Tyrol has been planning this happening. Without the volunteers' help, though, the organization of such a big event would just be unimaginable. The volunteers will be involved in many different areas. While some will act as guides of the participants, others will help the technology team in set-up aspects or prepare the box lunches for the 5,500 participants. "We are so grateful that more than 70 people of different age groups help us during the preparatory stage and especially later during the event", says Monika Rottensteiner, president of the Local Organising Committee.

Since 1964, the Europeade has been held in different European cities. This year, South Tyrol hosts this unique festival for the first time.