"...preferably together!" – Under this motto, an Inclusive Music Ensemble has been established at the State Music Academy since 2021, and since 2022, there is also a Veeh harp ensemble. They invite you to the Inclusive Advent Concert on the fourth Sunday of Advent, with free admission, where the Engers pensioners' band and the inclusion choir Plusminusfünfzig from Weißenthurm will also participate.

The joy of making music together and the experience gained from various training sessions at the State Music Academy—showing what can be achieved with a "colorfully mixed group"—led to the founding of an Inclusive Music Ensemble at the Academy. Inclusion is not limited to people with disabilities but unequivocally and unconditionally includes all people: children, young people, adults, seniors, individuals from various social backgrounds and different origins and religions, and people with special support needs. Every person is different and should be so! In making music together, as in life, everyone contributes in their own way—at their own place—with their instrument—to the success of the whole. This is how an orchestra or a band functions. With very heterogeneous starting points and a colorful array of instruments, music is created. At the Advent concert, the ensemble will present what has been developed during the rehearsals held every two to three weeks in the auditorium of the Heinrich House. Since 2022, there has also been a Veeh harp ensemble on-site, which will also be heard at the concert. The Veeh harp is a string plucking instrument that can be played without knowledge of music notation. Note templates, which are inserted between the strings and resonance body, enable playing "from the sheet."
As guests, the Engers pensioners' band and the inclusion choir Plusminusfünfzig from Weißenthurm, conducted by Brigitte Thilmann-Hilger, will also join in. It is a special joy that people from the Ahr Valley, some of whom had to commute for a longer time to work in Engers, continue to participate in the Inclusive Music Ensemble. Matthias Gampe, a church musician in Bad Neuenahr who has been blind since birth, will also perform solo. Let yourself be surprised!