‘BritPop Farm’ at Kunst!Rasen

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ImageA recent addition to the attractions at this years Kunst!Rasen Open Air site is popFARM.  Taking place on 7 July and with free entry, it sounds like an interesting and enjoyable event.  popFARM itself is an Academy for musicians run by musicians to give them advice and experience in everything from getting their music together to getting it onstage, to getting it on CD for the World to hear.

This years popFARM is dedicated to the Rock & Pop scene in England.  Thirty Classic songs from 50 years of music history.  From 2pm until 8pm the only question is: Can they get it all in?

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JazzTube 2013

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DSC_00083Songsbonn is pleased to announce that ‘Jazz Tube’ will be back again this year.

Between May and October of last year many a commuters hectic  journey  home was smoothed  by the sound of Jazz music wafting up the Ubahn platforms in Bonn.  Culmination of the Season was a concert at The Harmonie for the three most popular bands.

Stadtwerke is continuing with it’s sponsorship of this event in 2013 and is currently looking for musicians to take part this Summer.  If you are a Jazz musician around  20 to 35 years old and would like to enter, then Thomas Kimmerle of JazzInConcert would like to hear from you.

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Kunst!Rasen Update

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JFH_9784-BorderMakerNew additions to the Open Air concert Season at Bonn’s Kunst!Rasen include a return appearance from Zaz  (03.07),   a first appearance by Beth Hart  after her popular Crossroads show in 2011 at the Harmonie (23.07), and Heino – who’s new CD ‘Mit freundlichen Grüssen’, a selection of Rock cover versions, has put the normally more sedately paced German legend firmly back in the public eye (18.08).

Add to this BAP, Brings, Katie Melua, Santana, a Rock Night with Deep Purple and Gov’t Mule not to mention Crosby, Stills & Nash – there is a lot to look forward to along with the return of Summer to Bonn.

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Remembering Johnny Cash with Texas Heat

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TH1Johnny Cash lives in Leverkusen. Maybe I should qualify that statement ‘Johnny Cash lives in Leverkusen’. Bernd ‘Marty’ Wolf is the Leverkusener keeping the Man in Black’s memory very much alive by presenting his music in the Tribute Show ‘Just Cash’. The turnout at Harmonie showed that Cash’s music is as popular as ever here in Bonn , Where a lot of people were ready to walk the line back to Folsom Prison and share Johnny’s hurt once again. Wolf, who got to know Johnny as a translator during his German tours, proved to be the perfect guide for their journey, joined by the excellent Band Texas Heat.

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Chappo is one of the Family

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13_Roger-Chapman_025-13-EdiThere’s not a lot left of the Bluesy experimental Rock that gladdened the hearts of music fans in the early 70’s to be found in todays music scene.   There are though a lot of those fans still around, and they themselves are now in their early 70’s – along with their hero tonight at the Harmonie. Roger Chapman came to fame as singer/co-writer with UK Prog-Rock band ‘Family’ and is in fact now 72 but don’t let that fool you, he still outruns my camera’s autofocus mode as he bounds enthusiastically around the stage, more often than not with a waterbottle menacingly in hand.

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Alan Nimmo (King King) Interview

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Winners of ‘Best Band’ & ‘Best Album’ –
The British Blues Awards 2012

Winners of ‘Best Band’ & ‘Best Album’ –
Blues Matters Writers Poll 2011

So now you’ve seen the review and hopefully heard the music,  but what’s with the name King King?  Who is Alan Nimmo?  and why does he want to sing the Blues?   3Songsbonn asked the talented Scot to introduce himself to the German public during the bands first ever tour here.  Read on…

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King King are King

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KK2thumb Things that seem too good to be true usually are.   S0 when one of Britain’s top rated Blues Bands came to town to play in a local school hall it seemed like I should heed those words of wisdom.  In last years British Blues Awards King King and their enigmatic founder Scotsman Alan Nimmo, were voted Best Band, and their album ‘Take My Hand’ best disc.  How then did they come to be playing in a hall filled with wooden  tables up the corridor from classrooms?   I headed back to school just the same, and was very glad I did.

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