Introducing Jack Savoretti

Posted: May 15, 2012 in News
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If you caught Madison Violet at the Harmonie recently then you will have been lucky enough to also catch Jack Savoretti supporting them.

Fresh on the heels of a tour of UK Coffee Shops (adding a new meaning to the old Rock n Roll saying ‘No Sleep ’til Hammersmith’) Jack has also made a prestigious appearance on Terry Wogan’s Radio Show.  His songs have been used on American TV Soaps already, and I suspect his next release, due out on May 28 entitled ‘Before The Storm’ is going to be a goodie.

Here’s a short introduction, an excellent track from the album, and proof that travelling via British Rail does have it’s benefits:

Best Blues in Bonn

Posted: May 12, 2012 in News
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Samantha Fish

This years Blues Music Awards by the Blues Foundation in Memphis was proof of the high quality of Music in the genre that we’ve been fortunate to see on Bonn stages in recent years.

Award winners Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Joe Bonamassa and Samantha Fish have all played at the Harmonie or the sadly now defunct Museumsplatz in the last eighteen months.

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May at Bonn Folk Club

Posted: May 5, 2012 in Gig Reviews
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Spring was definitely not in the air – in fact it was pelting down outside.  Inside Haus Müllestumpe though John Harrison was celebrating the Summer and the return of swifts and ducks to Bonn.  Just don’t look over his shoulder to the rivulets running down the window panes…

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GA-Sommergarten 2012

Posted: May 5, 2012 in News
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The General Anzeiger’s popular Sommergarten Festival will be running from 3 June until 26 August this year.

There’s Blues with Shri, Jazz with Seatown Seven, and Irish Folk from Paddy goes to Holyhead before Sunny Skies finish the Season with style.
Unfortunately there is no return to the special flair of music from the Kunsthalle rooftop though – as last year, the shows will run from Rheinhotel Dreesen’s Kastaniengarten (Rheinstrasse 45-49) 11:30 to 14:30

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Madison Violet video & phone-in

Posted: May 5, 2012 in News
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LIVE IN YOUR LIVING ROOM THIS SATURDAY!

Madison Violet will be performing songs and taking your questions from backstage at their show in Unna, Germany this Saturday, May 5 at 6pm CEST/12pm EST.

Simply click on the link http://www.ustream.tv/channel/madison-violet and the band will magically appear LIVE on your computer screen to chat, answer questions, share stories, and play songs from their latest release, The Good in Goodbye.

Madison Violet Bloom in Bonn

Posted: May 1, 2012 in Gig Reviews
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Last years concert up the road at Cologne’s Kulturkirche with it’s eyecatching backdrop is imminent for release as a dvd.  But although visitors to the Harmonie show had to ‘make do’ without the stained-glass windows they did have the eye-catching ladies themselves – Madison Violet – providing an ideal way to mellow out at the end of a rare hot weekend.

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Faith Gibson Trio

Posted: April 26, 2012 in News
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Jazz fans have a treat coming this Monday (30 April)  when American vocalist Faith Gibson brings her trio, including Be-Bop drummer Jimmy Wormworth, to Drehwerk in Wachtberg, Bonn.

3Songs caught Faith at a Summer show in Bonn a year or so ago and can recommend her smooth, satin style of vocalising.

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Sticky Fingers

Posted: April 23, 2012 in News
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Günter 'Mick' Grothaus

Congratulations and good luck to Bonn Rolling Stones coverband Sticky Fingers’,  They recently qualified for the Music contest MyName Is.

The programme is broadcast on RTL2 so you can follow the bands fortunes from 23 April 9.15pm.

Certainly a fun band to hear and watch.  I remember them from a ’60′s United’ gig at the Harmonie where Günter Grothaus was an amazing Jagger look/soundalike.

They’ve been around almost as long as the real thing too, so success would be well deserved!

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