This weekend saw a positive relaxation in the Corona regulations here in the Bonn area. For the first time since lockdown Bonn Council has been allowing permits to entertain in the City streets. Folk Club impresario John Harrison was proudly the first to play Bonn’s shopping streets again, so I joined him for some of his journey as a street musician to see how people would react to hearing a real guitar and a real voice out on the streets again.
Sadly, even Mr Music and Julian Sas have had to bow to the restrictions of Covid-19. Julian’s 19th appearance at Harmonie since 2003 scheduled for November 21, has had to be postponed until 27 November 2021.
All tickets purchased for this years cancelled show (on 21 Nov) will be valid for the big Dutchman’s return next year.
It’s been a while since my interview with Gary Moore’s son Jack. In it Jack Moore admitted that being the son of guitar virtuoso Gary was a hard act to follow. Jack has indeed taken a while to find his own musical direction, The track ‘Fate‘ sees him team up with LA musicians Andrew Smith and Tyler Lyle. Taken from the trios forthcoming debut EP ‘Smith, Lyle & Moore’ which is due for release in September, it shows where Jack Moore is now, and also shows that it’s not a bad place to be at all – just don’t look to it as a gauge of how Jack’s guitar licks stand up against dads, because there aren’t any.
A second highly enjoyable evening of live music outside of the Kleines Theatre in Bad Godesberg with Cynthia Nickschas playing under the Cedar trees at the Kurpark. Whilst Wikipedia tells me that there are many trees that go under the description of ‘Cedar’ there is very definitely only one Cynthia Nickschas.
Wolfgang Scheelen has quite an impressive list of musicians that he’s appeared with, including Ray Charles, Fats Domino and Dizzy Gillespie. On this fine Summer afternoon in Bonn, Scheelen is laying down dome mean blues harp solos with Bastian Korn on piano and Benny Korn on drums, aka The Step Twins. The SWB Sommerfestival is back with sunshine and music at the Parkrestaurant Rheinaue
‘Unter der Zeder’ is a brand-spanking new concert season in Bad Godesberg. A ‘Lite’ version of the popular ‘Concert in the Park’ Season with its limited seating perhaps, but well worth reserving a seat for as the opening concert by Marcus Schinkel and Joscho Stephan proved.
Certainly, the Cedar trees outside of the Kleines Theater in the Bad Godesberger Kurpark make a beautiful setting for relaxing music. On my arrival though I was looking for one with a good roof of leaves. In fact, only an hour before it was hammering with rain and thunder. The rain stopped, and the bus arrived, so I made my decision to get on it – and I am very glad I did.
