FCB # 161 Friday 03.10.25 with Tim Liebert aka Doc Fritz as featured artist and featuring the Waldzither as featured instrument

 

Dear Folkies and/or Folk Club friends,

October is coming with the last warming rays of sunshine of the year, and with it Folk Club No. 161 on Friday, 3 October 2025. We have dedicated the evening to the theme of golden leaves / golden autumn.

As featured artist, we welcome a master of his instrument: Tim Liebert, alias Doc Fritz from Jena, is the leading specialist for the Waldzither in Germany. For over 40 years, Tim has been performing folk music, mainly in German, both at home and abroad. It is a great honour for us that ‘Doc Fritz’ is paying a visit to the Folk Club. Further information about Doc Fritz can be found here: https://doc-fritz.de/.

As always, the evening will be rounded off with performances by several musicians from the region. The Waldzither instrument will also play a role.
The Waldzither is an instrument that is more reminiscent of a mandolin. Developed in Thuringia around 1900, it belongs to the box lute family, but more often has a flat back lie a cittern. It may have nie, or sometimes ten, steel strings. There are numerous designs and stringings. If you would like to find out more, don't miss the upcoming Folk Club evening. Let yourself be surprised and enjoy the evening!

Here is a summary of the most important details:

Date: 3 October 2025
Start: 19:00 hrs until approximately 22:00 hrs The hall opens at 17:00 hrs, offering the opportunity to enjoy a leisurely meal and drinks before the concert. Those who arrive early can also sit in the front row. (How's that for a WIN/WIN situation?)

Location: Dotty's Sports Bar and Restaurant (public clubhouse of the Bonn Tennis and Hockey Club – BTHV), Christian-Miesen-Straße, 53129 Bonn (Dottendorf)                And as always, admission is free.

Preview:
- 7 November; FCB # 162, theme of the evening: ‘Frost’; featured artist: Juhana Iivonen from Finland

A quick note:
If you would like to hear Doc Fritz before and after the Folk Club, you have the following opportunities:

- Thursday, 2^nd October from 20:00 hrs at Kater 26, Römerstraße 26, 53111 Bonn. Kater also serves a fine Pilsner Urquell and delicious Czech wines.
- Saturday, 4^th October, from 17:00 hrs at Café Bistro Melody, Werftstraße 5-7, 53117 Bonn-Graurheindorf
Admission to both venues is free, but there will be a hat collection for the artist.

Enclosed, above and below, you will find posters for the evening at the Folk Club and for the performances at the Kater and Melody.

Do come along and enjoy whenever you can.

If required, further information is available from

Your Folk Club Team

Elena, John and Detlef


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Liebe Folk-Club-Freunde,

der Oktober kommt mit den letzten wärmenden Sonnenstrahlen des Jahres und mit ihm der Folk Club Nr.161 am kommenden Freitag, den 03. Oktober 2025. Thematisch haben wir den Abend dem Goldenen Herbst gewidmet.As Featured Artist können wir einen Meister auf seinem Instrument begrüßen: Tim Liebert alias Doc Fritz aus Jena ist d e r Spezialist für die Waldzither in Deutschland. Seit über 40 Jahren ist Tim in Sachen Folk Musik hauptsächlich in deutscher Sprache im In- und Ausland unterwegs. Es ist uns eine große Ehre, dass „Doc Fritz“ dem Folk Club einen Besuch abstattet. Weitere Informationen über Doc Fritz findet Ihr hier: https://doc-fritz.de/.

Der Abend wird wie immer abgerundet mit Auftritten mehrerer Musiker aus der Region. Das Instrument Waldzither spielt auch dabei eine Rolle.

Bei der „Waldzither“ handelt es sich um ein Instrument, das eher an eine Mandoline erinnert. Das Instrument, das um das Jahr 1900 in Thüringen entwickelt wurde, gehört zu den Kastenlauten. Es gibt zahlreiche Bauformen und Besaitungen. Wer mehr erfahren möchte, sollte den kommenden Folk-Club-Abend nicht versäumen.  

Lasst euch überraschen und genießt den Abend!

Hier zusammengefasst die wichtigsten Daten:

Datum: 03. Oktober 2025

Beginn: 19.00 Uhr bis voraussichtlich 22.00 Uhr. Der Saal ist ab 17.00 Uhr geöffnet und bietet die Möglichkeit, vor dem Konzert gemütlich zu speisen und zu trinken. Wer früh kommt, kann zudem in der ersten Reihe sitzen.

Ort: Dotty’s Sports Bar und Restaurant (Öffentliches Vereinshaus des Bonner Tennis- und Hockey-Vereins – BTHV), Christian-Miesen-Straße, 53129 Bonn (Dottendorf)

Ferner das „Allerwichtigste“: wie immer Eintritt frei  

Vorausschau:

-    07. November; FCB # 162 Thema des Abends: „Frost“;                                                  Featured Artist: Juhana Iivonen aus Finnland

Kleiner Hinweis:

Wer Lust hat, Doc Fritz schon vor und auch nach dem Folk Club zu hören, der hat dazu folgende Gelegenheiten:

-    Donnerstag, den 02. Oktober ab 20 Uhr im Lokal Kater 26, Römerstraße 26, 53111 Bonn. Zudem gibt es im „Kater“ ein gepflegtes Pilsener Urquell und leckere tschechische Weine.

-    Samstag, den 04. Oktober, ab 17 Uhr im Café Bistro Melody, Werftstraße 5 -7, 53117 Bonn-Graurheindorf

Der Eintritt in beiden Lokalen ist frei, es gibt eine Hutkollekte für den Künstler.

Anliegend erhaltet Ihr Plakate für den Abend im Folk Club sowie für die Auftritte im „Kater“ und im „Melody“.

Bei Bedarf gibt es weitere Informationen bei

Eurem Folk-Club-Team

Elena, John und Detlef

John -  or is it Elena - or is it Detlef?  or all of them?  :-)

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 "Man, all music is folk music. You ain't never heard no horse sing a song, have you?"

Big Bill Broonzy 

Saturday following the September Folk Club in Café Melody in Graurheindorf

 On the day after the September FCB No # 160 our featured artists performed in the delightful café Melody in the north of Bonn in southern Graurheindorf. Midnight Fyre, aka, Butterfly Moon and Gareth and Ashleigh regaled us with a delightful array of melodious songs both from their own pen and covers.

Many thanks to Zema at Café Melody in the Werft Strasse for this wonderful opportunity, and we hope to see some of you there again this coming Saturday 04.10.25 to see and hear Tim Liebert perform

FCB # 160 Poets Corner

 

Poet's Corner

Release the Cudgeon!

It was fine for Dwight D. Eisenhower to base his foreign

policy on the notion that one should,&

„ Talk quietly but carry a big stick!“

but if the person one is talking to is much stronger,

and detects a certain weakness, like a

lack of a „big stick“,

then they tend to stop listening, and take advantage.

There is is an age old

„law of the jungle“,

a „law“ much older than the human race,

and it is based on, initialy the

„survival of the strongest“,

Unfortuately humanity has once more admitted,

that it is still not yet fit enough,

to talk quietly and wisely enough, and to argue convincingly,

without a sufficiently large accompanying stick.

It is to mankind’s disdain,

if we must in future,

come to the Grimm conclusion and

permanently release the cudgeon out of the sack,

in order to win over minds and so prevent future wars.

John Harrison

PS as Detlef quite rightly pointed out, you will not find the word  "Cudgeon" in the dictionary, although you will find the words "cudgel" acnd "bludgeon". Adding the suffix "-eon" indicating timelessness and for eternity onto the word cudgel expressed the desired sense better without the goriness of bludgeon, which was a thick stick sometimes strengthened with lead at its centre. The invented word "cudgeon" conveys, I hope, a more permanent display of Eisenhower's "big stick" than the brief, although effective, brief "cudgel out of the sack" forays in Grimms' fairy tales.

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This one was inspired by the post-Brexit demise of British shops in Germany due to the exorbitant cost of health certificates on food imports. The saving grace of REWE's house brand "JA" introducing a tea blend of Ceylon and Indian tea with a box of  50 teabags costing only €0,99 per box, which actually works out at 1.98 cents per bag, but this was near enough to two cents and has enhanced life for me.

Two Cents A Brew

CHORUS

It’s two cents a brew x 2

And there’s nothing quite like it for

Two cents a brew!

When you’re distraught and full of fear

Your first thought is often to reach for a beer,

But as often as not, there’s much more sense,

If you’re only half as mad as me, to settle down and rest,

With a nice cup of tea!

CHORUS

When you are feeling frail, and it’s wintertime,

And outside there’s just sleet and sheet and hail,

What’s better than a very nice cup of tea?

Well, just count me in, I’ll be glad to join you in

A very nice cup of tea.

CHORUS

If we’d never have had any explorers,

Then we would have perhaps never known of this,

Such a soothing brew from the sub-continent of India,

So simply refreshing and soothing and tranquil, and all a’ that,

For merely a measly two cents a brew!

John Harrison