John Hurd's report from 3SongsBonn on Bonn Folk Club Meet # 138 on 06.09.23

https://3songsbonn.com/2023/09/20/folk-club-bonn-138-treemendous/

John Hurd was with us again to record in word and pictures yet another amazing evening of live unplugged music. The report is so good we can really easily overlook his massacre of the evening's theme of "old trees" by titling his report "TREE'MENDOUS"!

"AAAaaaaaaaaghhhhh!!!!!"  John, die you really have to "bark" that title quite soooo loud???"

""Sometimes, one simply cannot "see the wood, for all the trees!""

Naturally at Folk Club Bonn we have always favoured "roots" music above most other forms and genres of music!

As usual there is a whole page of wonderful photos of the evening here for your closer perusal:

http://johnno.jalbum.net/Folk%20Club%20Bonn%20Sept%202023/

Thanks again so much John Hurd!

You are certainly, one of a kind, and I personally look forward to your own next performance at this wonderful temple of live, acoustic music on the first Friday of the month!

Thanks for being John Hurd and carrying the proverbial torch of the folk club here for well over a decade!

Photos courtesy of John Hurd 3SongsBonn

It is perhaps little known, but after the UK decided in a crazy "non-binding" referendum in 2016 to leave the EU, I protested by not having my hair cut. 

OK, so it has grown a little since then and I normally wear it in a "pony tail", so that the "Brexiteers" do not find themselves quite so continually intimidated.

It is an unwritten "rule" at the folk club that we do not generally do "politics", but we do do "history", big time. I feel that "history" will eventually give me the benefit of the doubt on this one.

"What belongs together, will grow together", is a famous quote from Willy Brandt in a different context, the reunification of Germany and the falling of the wall in 1989, as a long convinced "European", I passionately feel that the UK is, and should be, an integral part of Europe.

There are, naturally differences. I have lived the vast majority of my life in and on mainland Europe.  People going abed on a Saturday night in the British Isles NEVER have the fear of awakening on a Sunday morning and finding a foreign tank upon their lawns. For people living in and on mainland Europe, this has always been a remote, but not impossible, possibility to discover on a rare Sunday morning. I think this is, perhaps an oversimplified, but an essential difference about the way that people from the British Isles view "Europe", compared to the many people who live on the mainland of Europe.

Thank you one again for the photo John Hurd, it's a cracker!

 If one cannot "let one's hair down," at the very least, then on a first Friday in the month? 

Then, when can one?

Gruß,

"Ramblin'" John Harrison

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