Christmas concert of the Corpo Musicale San Bartolomeo Apostolo

The date always falls in the last days of December, in the evening, in the parish church of San Bartolomeo. The programme of pieces was not published in the listings we read, which do not mention an entry ticket either; for December 2026 the date has not been announced yet.

The Corpo Musicale bears the name of the village's patron saint, Saint Bartholomew the Apostle, like the parish church where it plays at Christmas. In 2026 it celebrated 120 years since its foundation with a concert at the Arena in Oltre il Colle, on Friday 7 August from 9 to 11 pm, conducted by its bandmistress; in the Pro Loco's summer programme it was the band's August concert.

The band also plays outside the church: at the living nativity in the Vandullo hamlet, on 29 December 2024, the Christmas melodies were performed by the Corpo Musicale with a group of accordionists.

The parish church of San Bartolomeo stands high above the main village, at the top of a wide flight of steps above via Roma. Inside, under the vaults frescoed by Vincenzo Angelo Orelli, is the early nineteenth-century organ by Carlo Bossi, described in the church's page together with the other works.

The concert is in the evening and often on a Sunday, when scheduled buses do not run: you drive up and park near the church, where OpenStreetMap marks a free public car park. At the end of December, in the ERA5 averages for the main village, the minimum is about −5 °C.

On 28 December 2025 the concert closed a full day: from 9 am to 6 pm the «Natale in famiglia» markets in the square, at 3.30 pm the family show and, at noon, the polenta cunsada lunch in the square in Zorzone. In 2024, the day after the concert, the Vandullo hamlet hosted the living nativity.