(…) All Mestre was traversed by a moment full of choral initiatives of various types: “Summer in the Park” on September 26, 2003, “Choirs of Stars” the following year; “Between music and poetry at Piraghetto Park in 2005 and the” Feast of Flavors (Festa dei Sapori), in Piazza Ferretto, in September 2006. On all these occasions the presence of Venetian songs was required. They were given the appointment of Honorary Gondoliers35 on the occasion of the “Match of the Heart” in 2003 at the Stadio Sant’Elena organized by the “Nazionale Gondolieri”. (…)
(taken from: M.Gazzetta, The Chronicles of the Serenissima Choir of Venice,)