Rotterdam-: Around 1995 more and more kids of primary school ages started to dance and sing along in the aisles of concerts of the Continentals(age 16-33) and Young Continentals(age 13-16). Asking why they liked to copy all those choreo’s and performances, they said, they liked it so much and why couldn’t they participate? The board of the Continentals started to study this request and after 2 years of experiment by Leen La Riviere the first Continental Kids group started in 1997, based on the same ingredients as The Continentals: great talents, high motivation, great dedication, high performance and resulted in 30 kids from all denominations and from all over The Netherlands, age 8-12 years under direction of professional chroreographers, producers, musicians, pedagogues, musicologists, etc. After a professional study of a week, they did 10 spectacular concerts and even sold out the famous concert-building De Doelen of Rotterdam. The concerts were fascinating and draw national attention. So many more kids wanted to join this group, sothat today there are 5 Continental Kids groups in the Netherlands on the road….They released since 1997 14 CD’s, did over 650 concerts, had over 150.000 young visitors at concerts, were on national television, in radio-programs and in countless papers and magazines…