Simon Kempston Virtual Concert on Sunday Evening 13.12.20 at 20:00 hrs local German Time Here

https://www.facebook.com/events/1037750093364755

SONNTAG, 13. DEZEMBER 2020 VON 20:00 UTC+01 BIS 21:30 UTC+01

Dear Folk Club Bonn regulars,
greetings to you all and hoping you are all in good health and full of good cheer!?!!
The true regulars amongst you will be acutely aware that following keenly on the heels of FCB's inception in 2010 in Graurheindorf a Scottish troubadour by the name of Simon Kempston played one December in the folk club on his inaugural European tour. So from them on our futures have been somehow inextricably interlinked. There followed an after-show party at Detlef's and then roundabout midnight at the crossroads there, an, at the time, almost throwaway, pact was made. Simon had performed such a good concert that it was decided that he should become our most special of "special guests" and have a regular early December slot at Folk Club Bonn into eternity with the proviso that he produced a new CD each year, so that he could present it each year at the folk club, in order that the committee and other folk clubbers had at least one or two Christmas presents for family and friends already in the bag or bottom drawer by early December, thus ensuring a less stressful pre-Christmas period. 
It was quite a tall order for Simon because in addition to performing 150-200 live gigs a year, initially in the UK and western Europe, and more recently worldwide, he had to write new material each year and find the time to record it. Ironically earlier in this year, Simon hinted that he might have trouble managing it this year, after almost a decade of compliance, but he did not reckon with COVID-19 putting more free time into his hands this year that even a man on death row could imagine. The Coronavirus put an end to so many happy pursuits in 2020 that in the end, it was us, at the folk club that could not finally keep our part of the bargain and provide Simon with a public stage on the first Friday in December. Simon's CD for this year is ready and is entitled "Hand On My Heart" As one says in German "Aufgeschoben ist nicht aufgehoben!" ("Postponed is not cancelled!")
Thanks to modern technology you can actually hear a Simon Kempston concert live this Sunday 13.12.20 at 20:00 - 21:30 hrs local time, by simply following the link above. If you are sufficiently tight-fisted you could click on the link and watch the concert for free, just like you do at the folk club. However, any of you with a modicum of imagination, and most of you I know have "Vorstellungsvermögen" in abundance, could well imagine what kind of an annus horribilis Simon has had both financially and psychologically, as a performing artist in 2020. So I am sure that even the most Scrooge-like amongst you will be glad to send a few Shekels Simon's way. For those of you counting on acquiring Simon's new CD for the festive season, "the same procedure as every year", they are available at €15 each or two for €25 and Simon has done a backdoor deal with Santa's helpers for them to reach you all in a timely fashion prior to Yuletide"
For fear of not having been persuasive enough, here is a wee message from Simon himself,

"Sadly, my usual December performance at the Folk Club Bonn won't be happening this year - I very much hope you can join me on Sunday instead - please add yourself here to the event to set a reminder.

Hope to see you all then!

SK x "

PS

Simon Kempston

John Harrison

 thank you very much, although it actually starts at 2000 your time - . Many thanks, SK x

mea culpa Simon, I must admit I was slightly thrown at your lucidity with your ever- increasing international audience and your extensive global reach. 

UTC stands for Coordinated Universal Time and is to all intents and purposes a successor to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).

The etymology for the compromise of the term UTC is not uninteresting:

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The official abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC. This abbreviation arose from a desire by the International Telecommunication Union and the International Astronomical Union to use the same abbreviation in all languages. English speakers originally proposed CUT (for "coordinated universal time"), while French speakers proposed TUC (for "temps universel coordonné"). The compromise that emerged was UTC,^[which conforms to the pattern for the abbreviations of the variants of Universal Time (UT0, UT1, UT2, UT1R, etc)

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 The UK is currently on UTC which is always the same as GMT, rather than BTS (British Summertime) which is an hour in advance of UTC/GMT during the summer months, to make use of daylight saving hours. Germany is currently only one hour ahead of UTC or GMT as it is winter. In the summer months, however, Germany is two hours ahead of UTC or GMT.

So, to cut to the chase, Simon's concert can be viewed at 20:00 hrs on Sunday evening the 13.12.20 if you are listening in Berlin or Bonn, or indeed anywhere else in western Europe outside of the British Isles, or alternatively, it can be viewed and heard at 19:00 hrs if you are listening and viewing in either London or Dundee for example.

Quite simple, isn't it?

Q.E.D.