Another FAF Exclusive Choir Tour: The First Annual Castle Choral Festival, Honoring the 125th Birth Anniversary of Zoltan Kodaly is currently in the works!

Would your choir like to sing in the heart of the Castle District, Budapest's most cultural area? Would your orchestra want to perform in great settings with great choirs from Hungary?

FAF Choirs will be invited to participate in concerts, workshops and lectures on the Kodaly method, in historic venues.
Set for May, FAF and the Hungarian Culture Foundation (HCF)are currently working to secure the participation of the Hungarian choral community and U.S. Embassy.
Concerts anticipated in the gothic revival Great Hall of HCF, Matthias Church, and elsewhere throughout the district. Opportunities to perform outside the capital are also available.

Group leaders: see familiarization tour article for details on subsidized travel to Budapest to view sites in late November or January.

Since 1973, FAF has facilitated rich, international exchanges and concert tours, while advancing the idea of voluntourism, service travel, and tours for peace. FAF is not just another tour operator: we add a tremendous amount of educational and social value to the cultural exchanges and concert tours we create and facilitate every year.

FYI: For the past three years, FAF staff was called away to national duty and handled very few tours. Most were very successful but few were able to receive our full attention. Our entire staff led relief efforts among families affected by 9/11. Over $2M was donated to FAF for this purpose – now that this service has come to an end, the foundation has put its full time efforts back into its unique and unparalleled concert tour travel services.

2007 means TOURS TOURS TOURS!
In the past year we have renewed our many concert tour connections and will once again launch an aggressive campaign to promote mutual understanding through concert tourism.

A Connected, CARING Staff

Affiliated with the United Nations, US embassies abroad, academic institutions, artistic organizations, and a variety of cultural communities worldwide, the foundation can provide high quality, safe, educational and rewarding cultural exchange and concert tours to all arts, cultural, educational, and service oriented groups.

DID YOU KNOW? In April 2006, a choir from Northfield, Illinois traveled on one of our well-respected voluntourism tours. EagleSong sang throughout Louisiana, at FEMA trailer parks, in newly re-opened schools, all free to the public and in some incredibly historic settings. Prior to their departure, they raised FIFTY (50) orchestral and marching band instruments over the internet and GAVE THEM AWAY while on tour to students who lost theirs during the hurricanes.
That tour was rewarded with the 2006 Share the Hope Award from the America Sings Foundation - a true Friendship Ambassadors tour – and yours can now be just like theirs!

Now in its second season, the Youth Symphony for United Nations is ...
e x p a n d i n g ! ! !

Organizations across the country have partnered with YSUN, young musicians throughout the New York and Connecticut communities we serve have joined the main group, and singers (and lovers of cultural tours) have joined as individuals to be part of our global efforts to bring social import to music and music to meaningful social settings.

PERFORM WITH THE PRAGUE YOUTH SYMPHONY AS PART OF YSUN: CALL FOR DETAILS BEFORE THIS OFFER IS FILLED BY ANOTHER YOUTH CHOIR!

The New York Times reported that YSUN, led by Artistic Director Yin-Chu Jou "plays for peace", the America Sings Foundation awarded a YSUN related tour with the 2006 Share the Hope Award, and noted singer songwriter Elisabeth Von Trapp (of the Sound of Music Family) has agreed to lead a YSUN concert tour to Austria in 2007. What are you waiting for to join, affiliate or just come along for the fun and meaningful experience?

Musical directors: invite your young musicians to join up when you are not is session. Group leaders: join us on an award winning YSUN tour, locally or abroad. Everyone: Come on the Von Trapp Austria tour next June 2007!

Call for details, today! 1-800-526-2908