Christmas Concert
The State Institute for Culture marked the coming Christmas holidays with a Christmas concert at the Mission Gallery, jointly with chitalishte “St. George the Victory-Bearer 1999”. The “Bissera” group was established in 2000, with conductor Milena Spasova. Nowadays the group performs folk songs from different parts of Bulgaria and church music. In 2004, the group recorded its first CD named “Pearls in the Grass”; it was followed by a second single in 2006 labelled “In Praise of Thy Name”. On its tenth anniversary in 2010, the vocal group recorded a CD with a mix of folk and church music. Representatives of the “St. George’s Day” band and the “Zornitsa” vocal group with art directors Christina Nacheva and Marek Diakov also participated in the event.