What else is there to do on a rainy night like this, than sort out the archives ?
Tuesday, 17 July 2007
Favorites Archive vol.1
What else is there to do on a rainy night like this, than sort out the archives ?
Jools Holland and his R&B Orchestra 16/3 Paradiso Amsterdam
Always a favorite annual knees-up, as these funny Brits say.
We missed Lady Sam Brown this year, but Ruby Turner was fantastic and got the whole Paradiso singing HiHoSilver with her
Patricia Vonne Band & Ollabelle LVC Leiden 24/4
Lovely Patricia Vonne who we first saw in the now closed QBus, another vanished venue in Leiden, where Hans van Polanen used to promote tasteful Americana line ups, like this concertno.100, now in LVC
Patricia also acted as a kind of scary catwoman in her brother Roberto Rodriguez'( Oscar
winner was it? )movie Sin City, but in person she's a very gentle soul
By the way, the lady with the mandoline in the middle here is Levon Helm's daughter Amy.
Levon drummed and sang and played mandolines with the only band in the world known as THE BAND, the one that Dylan took to Europe in '65 or so to teach the swearing and"Judas!"-screaming orthodox folkies some electrics.OLLABELLE, named after a famous gospelsinger, kind of teaches the electric now crowd organic acoustics and soulclapping, wich they happily respond to for a change
Parne Gadje - De X, Leiden 29/5
Parne Gadje, meaning something like pale gypsies in the Roma language.
If you like Tom Waits' way of using self-invented instruments and around the house sounds, wait till you hear this and you will travel and revel !!!!!
They've made a beautiful CD with poet Gunther Abdula, called Bizoagor, to collect money to develop and print schoolbooks for Roma children in eastern europe. All the poetry is translated in english in the tasteful CDcoverpackage with the Roma symbol,the wagonwheel ,'in the sky'.
Money well spent and the music and poetry are an even greater gift in return......
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