The Bonn tube stations had a rather unusual visitor on Friday when Mary & the Poppins stopped by to play a few songs at Museumsmile.  Actually, her large and happy band seemed to suggest another of Julie Andrews famously portrayed characters the hill climbing Maria Von Trapp from Sound of Music.  No name droppimg at Hauptbahnhof, just good laid back Jazz saxaphone from Yaroslav Likhachev’s band.  Down at Uni/Markt Alexander Sobocinski’s latest project Porteno Global were laying down some mean tango rhythms.    You might have guessed it, JazzTube was back for round two.

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Typical of the varied programme on offer this year Stadtgarten ended it’s 2017 open air season with two very different bands.  The irresistable Salsa beat of Macondito and the equally irresistable chanson vocals of Luna Gritt.   Musically ‘chalk and cheese’ but quality wise I would pay good money to see both again – and at Stadtgarten we saw both for free!  A good deal, or what?

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photo by: Maximiliane Verfürden

I can’t promise any cheerful cockney chimney sweeps or talking umbrellas, but I can promise an appearance of Mary Poppins at JazzTube on Friday (1 September) I can also promise some cool jazz music with faces old and new from the scene to entertain you at Markt, Museumsmeile and Hauptbahnhof.

FULL DETAILS OF THIS FRIDAY’S JAZZTUBE HERE

Fans of  local heroes Bromo will be pleased to hear that the red headed twins will be holding their CD Release party this Friday at Dotty’s Sportsbar Restaurant (Christian-Miesen-Str. 1)  as part of this Month’s Folk Club Bonn evening.  New Bromo T-shirts are promised – oh, and there’s a new CD on sale too… As always, seats get filled quickly so come early!

This almost seemed like a continuation of my previous visit to Stadtgarten just two weeks ago.  Ladies Night revisited?  Two bands fronted by ladies  in the forms of Magdalena Ganter with Mockemalör down from Berlin and Makeda playing a ‘home gig’ with Steal a Taxi were playing just a stones throw from the Rhine.  The show was presented by PopCamp which supports popular music in Germany, offering up-coming talent coaching Germany-wide.  Is there such a thing in England?  If not, there should be!  It’s a great idea as it creates band’s that are very enjoyable and very different, as this evening’s show was to prove.  Even the weather decided to play along – so much so that by shows end, and counting in the crowded beergarden and the (reasonably) dry embankment, some 2500 people were there to share some Bonn Summer magic.

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March 2018 the mighty King King will be back!

Dreading the end of Summer? Fearing the cold and dark wet evenings ahead?

Fear not, there will be many reasons for music lovers in the area to get out in the evenings in the coming months.

Some suggestions: HERE

A big day today from Marvin and Dennis with the release of the first ever Bromo video and a new song – ‘Like a Picture’.
A big day too for their friends and fans in the video.  Enjoy!

A quick impression of ‘Mädelsabend’ at the Stadtgarten.  Following mindless vandalism of the stage supports the night before it was good to get back to the positive side of music here down by the Alten Zoll and tonight it was ‘Ladies Night’ with 21 year old Milene from Bonn who has shared stages with such German Rock luminaries as Udo Lindenberg and Klaus Doldinger (Tatort’s famous theme).  Nosoyo are a duo from Berlin with Indie-Pop/Electro-Folk sounds and an album that has already been streamed 6 million times on Spotify and great things are already expected from Solingen’s Psychedelic Folk-Rocker Susan Köcher.

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