The Australian Polish Sports Masters cordially invite you to come and enjoy „Polish Christmas at Darling Harbour” which will take place on Saturday 2nd of December 2006.

This year’s Polish Christmas at Darling Harbour will be a colourful and a dynamic celebration of Polish culture through folk, contemporary and classical music as well as through one of the oldest and most deeply rooted in the Polish culture Christmas tradition the singing of Christmas Carols.

The show will start at 3 pm with the vibrancy of Polish folk dancing performed by the Dance Ensemble Lajkonik opening the concert with a Polish national dance Polonaise, a performance which will be followed by a kaleidoscope of folkloric singing and dancing which explores the various regions of Poland by the Fold Dance Ensemble Syrenka and the Polish Folk Group Kujawy.

Extra taste of the Polish folk will be delivered by a special guest straight from Poland a well known Folk Ensemble Jawor visiting Australia on their way to the National Folkloric Festival of the Islands of the Pacific. This visual and musical celebration will also be expressed through contemporary song and dance performed by local talents such as John Hospodaryk, Maja & Eugene Kedziora Due, Slawek Kazan, Zosia Kilmartin, the 4AM Band, The Razem Group, Oliwia Kierdal, Alicja Polak and the POL-HOP Group.

A 12 piece wind instrument ensemble The Sydney Windjammers under the direction of David Keetley, a soprano Theresa Rayner and others will present a classically flavoured collection of musical interpretations of well known pieces including the works of the Polish national hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko.

At the end of our musical journey we invite you to celebrate Christmas the Polish style by joining us in singing carols as this widely practiced Polish tradition dictates, a a musical presentation of the most loved Polish and international Christmas carols performed by 10 lead vocalists and a 30 member Tecza choir will at 10 pm bring Polish Christmas at Darling Harbour 2006 to a fabulous end.