There are some more livestream shows from Bonn coming your way from BonnLive. This is features a band I’ve enjoyed hearing on local stages that goes by the quirky name of Huck Le Berry Finn.
Quirky music too? Judge for yourself – and don’t forget the ‘Jetzt Spenden’ (Donate) button if you like what you hear – to help keep live music alive in the City.
More details of what’s happening are HERE
Yes I know, at the current time this all looks hopelessly optimistic. But do keep that mask on, do keep 2 metres distance, don’t meet up with 20 of your mates at home, and just maybe we will actually get to see Sting finally…
Layla Zoe certainly didn’t make it easy for herself. 2018’s superb double-disc ‘Gemini’ seemed to say everything that could be said and in the best way possible. It was electric, it was Blues, Funk, Gospel and Rock. It was the sum of all the releases before it. The subsequent ‘Retrospective Tour’ and disc suggested a watershed moment had been reached. Did it also leave the self-proclaimed firegirl literally with ‘Nowhere Left To Go’? – is this perhaps the aptest album title ever penned? Well, no, as it thankfully turns out. Whilst NLTG doesn’t re-invent the wheel as far as Layla’s music is concerned it is, thanks to plenty of new faces behind the songs, still a fresh as well as a strong statement from the heart. It also still showcases the lady’s amazing voice with that trademark emotional intensity that is the secret of Layla Zoe’s success.
As happened during the first Corona lockdown, musicians, creative souls that they are, have been finding ways to keep their music in the public eye or get the buzz from a live show (depending on your viewpoint of the musicians concerned). So let’s take a look at some of the music that’s been happening in the musical bubble of 3songsbonn.com.
In the hope that there is a tunnel. and we will see the light at the end of it soon… On 1 July next year Deep Purple will be joined by some very special guests at Kunstrasen.
The Allman Betts Band features Devon, the son of Allman Brothers frontman Greg Allman (already a visitor to Bonn Harmonie in the past), paired up with Duane Betts, son of original Allman’s guitarist Dickey Betts. Onboard too is Berry Duane Oakley, son of the Allman Brothers Band’s founding late bassist, Berry Oakley. The band is still pretty fresh out of the blocks but word is that they are chips off of their respective musical family blocks. Judge for yourself from this video.
Just days before live music disappeared from our daily lives, Baum’s Bluesbenders gave us a powerful reminder at the Harmonie of what we would be missing – as well as a reminder of what we are still missing compared to those carefree concerts that we were still enjoying at the start of the year.
A year ago I could not have imagined writing the words ‘Folk Club Bonn’ and ‘Harmonie’ in the same sentence. Even sitting down with co-owner of the venue Kolli to discuss a possible show there recently was surreal. Here it is then – the sentence in cold black and white for perpetuity: “Folk Club Bonn on Tour from the Harmonie“.
Good news and bad news from the man in the Stetson Cap – Good news is that Mr Henrik Freischlader has a new disc set for release. The Bad news is that we will have to wait until 4th December to lay our hands on ‘Missing Pieces’. But why don’t I just let Henrik explain? …and play some extracts from the new disc too!
