Day of Traditional Costumes
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Programme subject to change.
Day of Traditional Costumes.
Many delegations from all over the country show their local or regional traditional costume. Around 100 guests from outside Schagen are coming. The guests are welcomed in de Bron and walk along in the parade. For many, this is a chance to see the traditional costumes up close. Expert commentary accompanies the whole event. Nowhere else in the Netherlands does an event of this size take place.
The costume groups coming this year are: Urk, Friesland, Drenthe, Rijssen, Nunspeet, Scheveningen and Enkhuizen.
The presentations are on the stage by the church.
The presentations are from 12:20 to 14:00.
After the costume show, the groups take part in an open-air bread meal on the Markt, at around 14:00.
09:00 Harnessing and hitching the horses in the Muziektuin behind Museum Vreeburg.
09:00 – 15:00 Curiosities and crafts market in the Nieuwstraat.
10:00 The West Frisians gather at the corner of Nieuwe Laagzijde/Stationsweg (café Spoorzicht) for the parade.
10:00 – 15:00 The tower on the Markt can be climbed for a small fee; inside the tower is the exhibition with many historical photographs of the Westfriese Folklore.
10:00 – 15:00 Have your photo taken with friends or family in original West Frisian costume on a carriage, for a small fee. On the Markt next to the information stand.
10:00 – 15:00 Wood turner in the smithy at Museum Vreeburg.
11:00 – 13:00 Organ recital by Sebastiaan Schippers in the Dutch Reformed Church (N.H. Kerk) on the Markt.
10:45 The parade sets off from the Nieuwe Laagzijde.
11:25 Performance by the children's dance group on the church square on the Markt.
11:45 Children's bread meal on the Markt.
11:45 Performance by the West Frisian dance group on the church square on the Markt.
12:00 – 13:00 The farrier shoes horses in front of the Vreeburg museum farm on the Loet.
12:30 – 14:00 Traditional costume show on the stage by the church.
13:15 – 15:00 Skroifgroep Hoogkarspel (West Frisian writers' group) in the coffee room of the church on the Markt. They sing and tell anecdotes in the wonderfully rich West Frisian dialect.
14:00 – 15:00 Open-air lunch on the Markt for all participants in the costume show.
Don't forget to visit our beautiful Vreeburg museum farm and the Carriage Museum.
