You know Summer is really here when the Jazz Season is in full swing outside the Rheinaue Restuarant.
Friday’s Guests were, as always, very familiar and very welcome. Plymouth’s own Rod Mason together with his talented Hot Five.
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A quick reminder that Cherry Lee Mewis, interviewed on 3SongsBonn recently, appeared as featured live guest on Radio 2′s Paul Jones Blues Show on 28 May. The show will be available to hear for a week after transmission (until 4 May) from the BBC Website.
(Three of!) The Four Fiddlers
A reminder that, for one month only, Bonn Folk Club will be at a different venue next Friday (1 June):
Rheindorfer Hof Estermannstraße 80-82, 53117 Bonn (Tel: 0228 / 96779590). Not far away from the original Venue in Grauerheindorf. SEE MAP As always, from 7:30pm
Special Guests will be ‘The Four Fiddlers’
Enroute to the Rheinaue for a Jazz evening I squeezed in time to check out the Jazz Tube.
When I arrived, the Tram Station Museumsmeile/Heussallee was hosting a young lady named Maya Fadeeva and her backing duo – collectively the Maya Trio. Tim Haenelt on guitar kept it simple but excellently effective, with a solid rhythm underpinning courtesy of Dutchman Roy Louis. Star of the show was of course Maya herself. Hailing from St Petersburg before moving to Bonn via time in New York and at the Music Conservatory in Maastricht, this young lady certainly has a lot of star quality. She cites Diana Krall as an influence, and maybe it was her hairstyle, but I kept seeing and hearing Cleo Lane – which is itself no bad thing. Her version of Mose Allison’s ‘Nothings gonna be Alright’ seemed well taylored to her young vibrant style, and ‘Georgia On My Mind’ is the sort of classic that can sound dated in the wrong hands – here though again it had an edge of youth keeping it sounding fresh.
Floor Plan – Kunst!Rasen
Posted: May 24, 2012 in NewsTags: Bob Dylan, Bonn, Jan Delay, Kunst!Rasen, Lou Reed, Open Air
Promoters ‘Noise-Now’ have just released a plan of Bonn’s new Open-Air venue the Kunst!Rasen:
As always the RheinAue Restaurant in the Rheingarten is offering an excellent Season of Free Jazz Concerts throughout the Summer in Bonn.
The Season started on 11 May and will carry on through until the end of August. As always, entry is free, but please remember that events of this kind depend on takings at the bars and restaurants onsite – so if you want to enjoy concerts again next year please help to support the local gastronomy rather than taking your own food and drinks. You will be helping to keep music live and alive in Bonn!
‘Light at the end of the tunnel’ is promised for Bonn commuters this Summer under the name ‘JazzTube’. From this Friday (25 May), in a new initiative, the Stadtwerke Bonn is presenting a new platform (pun intentional!) for up and coming Jazz talent at three City Underground Stations.
In a months time Lou Reed will be barbecuing on this spot…
With the sun starting to make regular appearances, 3Songsbonn made a quick check on the ‘state of play’ of it’s music venues along the Rhine.
