The last Kunst!rasen weekend is already here and it’s been an interesting mix of musicians who have taken to the giant stage by the Rhine this year. Another interesting evening is promised tonight too. Gregor Meyle is not a superstar by any means but he’s made a name for songwriting and live shows – the latter through an audience rapport that was evident when he implored the Haribo contingent on the VIP balcony to sing along seperately to ‘Don’t worry Be Happy’ and got an enthusiastic response that must have left them with laryngitis for Monday at the office.
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Bonn the Silent City?
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- Klangwelle – in front of Beethovens watchful eye where it belongs
“Bonn is half as big as the main cemetery in Chicago – and twice as quiet!”
Just one of the many jokes that is going around these days. Is Bonn in danger of being a musical backwater? Think back just a few years and remember when the Summer brought us Open Air at Museumsplatz, Live music in the Markplatz (Bonner Sommer), Free Rock Music in the Rheinpark (RheinKultur), Sommergarten on the Kunsthalle roof, All of them gone. The last remnants are struggling to survive against the odds, and against the ‘Silent Nights’ brigade, and so it goes on.
Kunstrasen Brings The Summer
Drummer Christian Blüm very wisely took a bicycle ride to the opening gig of Kunstrasen 2013. Following fears that the open air field would actually become an open air lake we had a glorious day of sunshine, and there was only one dinghy sailing across the Rheinaue Field. It contained Peter, one half of the brothers that made up this seasons openers Brings, and the ‘sea’ was one of hands. Thousands of them in fact as The KunstRasen Open Air Season 2013 got underway.
Kunst!Rasen all set to go
Martin Nötzel, Heino, Christian Blüm (Brings) & ,Ernst-Ludwig Hartz are ready for Kunst!Rasen 2013
“It’s not our private lawn. There is an Arts scene in Bonn and we are a part of it.” With that sentence Co-Promoter Martin Nötzel described perfectly the wide-ranging and ambitious plans for Bonn’s Open Air Venue Kunst!Rasen in the coming Season at this weeks’ Press Conference. If there isn’t something for everyone it will clearly not be for want of trying. Top Rock musicians have almost become expected, but Open Air Opera, Picnics, Comedy, Classics, Cinema… The biggest headache might just be fitting it all into a ‘mere’ four months – early June to late September. From BAP to Beethoven and everything in between.
Big Plans – Kunst!Rasen 2013
Brings – Open the Season on 7th June
Something for everyone. Music, Open-Air Cinema, Comedy, Good Food and Drink. After a first year of blood, sweat and tears just to get something off the ground after the final collapse of their Museumsplatz tent the organizers of Bonn’s Open Air Season have pulled out all the stops to put Bonn back on the International Musical Map.
Kunst!Rasen 2013 is set to prove that Music is Fine down by the Rhine next year.
Lou Reed Kicks off Kunstrasen
Bap frontman Wolfgang Niedecken in the audience, Bonn Lord Mayor Jürgen Nympsch in the VIP tent. A small field next to a duckpond and just a literal stones throw away from Father Rhine was THE place to be on Friday evening as Brooklyn’s original street rapper Lou Reed headlined the first ever concert at Kunst!Rasen.
3songsbonn took a walk on the Rhineside…
Kunst!Rasen taking shape
29 June is start date for Bonn’s new Open-Air venue the Kunst!Rasen.
As our pictures show, things are taking shape down by the Rhine as technicians and stage builders set up the new venue for Lou Reed, Zaz, Bob Dylan and co.
Kunst!Rasen Complete
The Concert list for this years Kunst!Rasen Open Air Festival is now complete.
Described on their website as a ‘German Cultural Institution’ CULCHA CANDELA have sold over 2 million records and proved a popular act when they last played in Bonn. They will be back here on 20 July.