Featured Artist Darren Cross from Sydney in Australia a brilliant instrumental guitarist was warming up on the Thursday evening, prior to the Folk Club Bonn first Friday Folk evening, after arriving in Bonn from several days and gigs in Paris, on the Thursday evening in Kater 26 on the Römer Strasse in Bonn. Thanks to Tana and all the staff and guests in Kater 26 for a wonderful Thursday musical evening!
On the first Friday of the month Folk Club Bonn evening after a resounding, resonating, "Ladies & Gentlemen" call to order, the show got underway with a little bit of Blues from me. Dear Stephan Westphal followed me on the stage and the audience is still not quite sure, did he actually have a real violin in his case? and if he did have a violin in his case, could he actually play it? I do so love such mysteries! Watch this space and keep your eyes and ears peeled and attentive! :-)
The Molitones aka from left to right, Steffi Sawatzki, Carsten Exner, and Iris Brück.
They took us on a harmonious musical journey ending up with
Jethro Tull's "Locomotive Breath", written by Ian Anderson, Jethro's crazy,
wild one-legged mad flute-playing front man
Next up were Uwe Gillert, admirably accompanied on the guitar by Bernd Sachs. All songs were written by Uwe Gillert and the last one was a hommage to his wife Margot
Performer of the evening award went to a quiet dark horse who regaled us all, Ute Brüggerman.
who even gave us a wonderful a cappella rendering og "Summertime" from the musical "Porgy & Bess"
Before treating us to some Reinhard May and Bläck Fööss. We weren't quite expecting that dear Ute, but we were thankful nevertheless!
Darren Cross, our featured artist for the evening, was well rehearsed, having played every night for the last month on his European tour, finishing up in Paris prior to his final last three gigs before flying home to Sydney in Australia on the Sunday. He was a little bit sceptical about playing completely unplugged and acoustic as an instrumental guitarist to a seventy-strong Bonn Folk Club crowd, but his fears turned out to be unjustified and he enjoyed the experience as much as the audience did!
After the break came Wolfgang Schiefer and Hans Ihnen who took us on
a journey "Far, Far Away" with the old Slade song of the same name.
Next up were Gedankenspiel ( Play on thoughts, as in play on words) comprising of
Petra Sigmund and her wife Ragna. Petra used to visit the folk club in Haus Mühlestumpe
and it was good to hear her self-penned tunes again!
Another very regular visitor to Bonn Folk Club during our time in Haus Mühlestumpe in Graurheindorf was Richard Limbert who was schoolboy in those days, but was a persuasive one, who used to be able to persuade his father to drive him from St. Augustin to Graurheindorf on many a first Friday evening and this is probably where Richard acquired his love of the Blues and Folk music, which he later went on to study in Leipzig where he still lives and works, having landed a dream job as an archivist for a music publishng company, getting paid to accomplish something that he would have gladly done, just because he enjoyed it so much!. Oh, What a Lucky Man!
Richard is developing into quite an accomplished singer/songwriter himself and he has taken upon himself to write two songs a month, one in German and one in English, which is quite a formidable task and we wish you good luck with that dear Richard. On this evening when he performed three of his own songs and kindly invited me to play Blues harp on his last song, "Losers" by Dave Van Ronk. Always a pleasure to see and hear you Richard!
At the end of the evening we were treated to another five instrumentals from Darren Cross, all his own except for his penultimate tune "Sunflower River Blues" for which Darren gave us the choice and it was Richard who cried out for the John Fahey tune, expertly executed by Darren who quipped that ut was one of the younger members of the audience who knew the value of this tune from the 1970s!
Thanks for a wonderful evening Darren, and all that was left to be done and said and sung was the last song of the evening, dedicated to our patron, "Jock Stewart."
This is what Darren wrote on Instagram:
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D.C Cross at the Folk Club Bonn. What a wonderful night playing with a bunch of local Bonn Folkies. First show I’ve done playing acoustic without electricity to a large gathering! Super fun. Thank you Folk Club Bonn. 🦘🕊️ #folkmusician #acousticguitar #bonn song is D.C Cross - UNQUOTE
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