Panties & Bretels - summary in English (with a note on spam)

Panties & Bretels (Dutch for Tights & Braces, after some of the garments we wear during performances) are a small close-harmony choir from Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. We are an amateur group, singing strictly a cappella. Our repertoire consists mainly of vocal jazz from the 20th century, but we're not too choosy. We sing Beatles-songs, Broadway hits and Gershwin classics; the occasional Kings' Singers' arrangement and even the Muppet Show Theme are not out of bounds with us.

Panties & Bretels are conducted by Saskia Heeringa.

Our motto being 'A Cappella With Pleasure', we perform in all kinds of places - in village halls, in homes for the elderly, on festivals, in hospitals, in shopping centres and in all other places where good vocal music isn't amiss..

Please feel free to browse our website. We're sorry - but the larger part of our site is in Dutch. Any questions: feel free to send an email to:

How come Panties & Bretels seem to have sent me junk email ('spam')?

We're really sorry, but you may have arrived on this site having received a spam email which was seemingly sent by us... Unfortunately, it has been brought to the webmaster's notice that internet spammers have 'spoofed' our email address. Whoever sent you spam mail, it wasn't us! Sending unsolicited email is the last thing we'd consider doing!