A jazz-oriented concert in the beautiful community hall in Mondorf-les-Bains. We could benefit of the excellent acoustics ot the venue as well as of the huge stage that would have been enough for an AC/DC concert. We'll gladly come back to Mondorf next year.
The more we come here, the more we feel at home at the Amadeus. Two fun evenings, a biggest crowd on Saturday, and a nice atmosphere as usual. Yann's latest original "AABA" passed the baptism of fire, whereas his hat ended its career here on Saturday. The CD is on its way, step by step... A big thanks to the whole team for the same old warm welcome, with a special mention to Laurent and Marie-Hélène for the nice pictures!
Our second concert at the Dagobert, without Antonio who went to get a tan in Italy (what a lame excuse!). Claude was everywhere with his two keyboards, bass played at the left hand, the remainder played with his two right hands and his feet. A pretty calm atmosphere overall that blazed up in the third set with covers such as "Pump it up" (we won't do that anymore, honest) or the now famous "J'aime pas le blues" (I don't like blues) written by Claude, good vibrations that allowed Marino to fly away in a great drums solo. Thanks to everyone there and especially to the team!
A second concert in the frame of the Télévie initiative to collect money for research against leukemia, this time without Antonio. We are a variable geometry band and we prove it! A good evening despite a fairly late performance (from 2:15 in the morning) and an audience that was a little scattered yet enthusiastic, with songs sung in various languages which lyrics we don't understand anyway. However, we book four backstage entrances for next year at a more standard time. Thanks for the bacalau, that was right on the money for April's Fools Day.
We were once more playing at the Amadeus this week-end and was a great time despite the unfair competition with the Galaxie next door (people who could not attend our concert had to bitterly fall back on Depeche Mode). On Friday night, we were in pretty good shape - and so was the audience - and the seismograph from the ReNaSS in Strasbourg warned us about a peak at 4.1 on the Richter scale and replicas, precisely when Marino played his solos (we all felt like we were playing with Led Zeppelin's drummer). We even had an encore in which we played Yann's new song the best we could (the lyrics were written on Wednesday). On Saturday, Antonio had kinda blown a fuse: to be honest, this time we tried to remove his straight jacket without giving him his pills, which always comes with a fair share of surprises. Another encore and we finished with an acoustic version of Europa. In any case, we had a lot of fun and we will happily come back soon.
Our first concert broadcast live on TV and on radio, on the Luxemburgish public channel RTL, with interview and all. A concert dedicated to Marino's dad who passed away Saturday afternoon. Thanks Marino for being able to play despite the sorrow: show must go on. Claude could not be here bacause of a last minute problem so we were a threesom quartet one more time just like last week: shit happens! All in all, that will be remembered as a great day with a wonderful unexpected spring weather, in the frame of the worthy European Télévie cause for people who suffer from leukemia. The audience was there and the concert jazz/pop-from-the-coutryside flavoured.
That was quite a heavy week-end for Yann who aso played with the Farfadets for St-Patrick's day, on Friday evening, Saturday evening and right after Serendipity for Télévie too.
What can we do when we are a foursome band and at the last minute Mr Claude, the pianistic wizard, is sick ? Answer is obvious: let's go and work around it. Of course, it must sound good too! A first set of jazz, a second pop-oriented, a third ethnic (notably Irish with Yann playing the fiddle and Antonio and Marino at the percussions) and a fourth energetic, what's more, with a quintette of frantic female dancers from Cap-vert at the end. During this concert, we met Kym again after several-years-no-see, she used to be the boss of the White Elephant where Antonio, Claude and Yann first met about 9 years ago. Looks like we're getting older!
The Dolmens was a nice place to play at thanks to the managing team and above all, thanks to the audience - kids up to seniors - who danced the night away, which ultimately is the utmost satifaction of any musician serious about it!
An evening including many folk dance and music: Brigitte, Carmen and Michèle, who celebrated 150 years by summing up their ages, belong to different dance groups. A first set dedicated to Latin music (bossa, cha-cha, ...), whereas the second set started with a jig, tarentelle and polka with Yann playing fiddle, and went on with a sirtaki thoroughly danced by the members of the dance groups persent.
Yet another concert imprinted with loss of voice : Yann was totally voiceless so the trainer asked Antonio to play in front, while Yann was doing frog noises every now and then. Antonio did pretty well and performed a few songs for the first time hidden behing his inevitable blue folder and music stand, on Marino's groove and on our international magical Claude's harmonies. This is how great it is to be in a band with three people who can sing!
The toughest concert of all times. Yann and Claude both had a loss of voice. Yann, who additionally had fever and only drank hot chocolates, had utterly lost his voice at the half of the second set. We therefore played music that was not in our playlist and to our surprise, it set the place on fire so we will play here again in March. People in the audience voiced their comprehension by coughing all together instead of applauding: call it solidarity!
A concert we will also not forget because Yann played Irish music live on fiddle for the very first time and Claude performed his newest song "Le message" also as a first timer.
Two great evenings with the audience getting more and more lively between Friday and Saturday. Our group therapy seems to work: Antonio smiles more and more, Claude cracks up more and more jokes, Yann now slams into the audience at his own risks, and Marino, even sick (bad bird flu), still throws his energy around on stage. It was Antonio's birthday on Friday, and everyone on stage and above all in the audience reminded him about that on many accasions. They wished him so wholeheartedly a happy birthday that he's now three years older.
Thanks to Moreno, Laurent-1, Laurent-2, Fred, Aurélie, Pat, and to all the Amadeus staff. Great place to be!
Encouraging week-end : two concerts at the Amadeus in Amnéville with two different atmospheres. Antonio had a few pills as he had a cold and he was in very good shape, a genuine entertainer. After the concert, everyone wanted the same pill!!
We played "Une Histoire de Jazz" and "Je n'aime pas le Blues" for the first time, two originals from our inimitable international star from Luxembourg: Claude (originals from his latest solo album : "La Vie, quelle Planète ?", CD available in every good record shop in Luxembourg).
Weather was our friend with a beautiful shiny sun for a jazz concert, with one more time a real piano so Claude could feel at ease and blow yet another fuse!
We have the great pleasure and privilege to perform at the last concert of the Bistrot, and to wish a new sunny life to Veerle, our lovely landlady who treated us like kings of the world! Happy Senegal Veerle on behalf of the band.
1.500 people in the audience this time at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg. No failure allowed! "Minestrone" repertoire : from "Orfeo Negro" to "I Will Survive", via "Miss You"!!
Antonio also celebrated his 25 years of music : a quarter of a century ago, in this very same theatre, he performed live for the very first time. The song, serendipitically, was "Miss You".
We know, we know, noone would have bet a dime on us with our perforated hats and our folk instruments, but on this Sunday, the usual audience of the Jazz Brunch at the Abbaye de Neumünster was really enthusiastic and warm. Surely our beach-jazz repertoire was refreshing, and Yann and Claude showed that our solists still can play cool with 40°C in the shade. Real piano too!
Two concerts in Thionville for the price of one! At first, aperitif-jazz concert at 18:30. Then energy-concert at 22:30 until it closed in the middle of a crowdy and enthusiastic audience. The Fête de la Musique is really a celebration.
The photograph unfortunately missed the spectacular folding of the tent at 4 AM. Heroic!
A very professional attitude of the people from the City Tourist Office for this one-hour concert, which was only the beginning of a marathon day (especially for Yann also busy with the Farfadets) et was the opening of the "Fête de la Musique 2005" in Luxembourg. Heat...!
Thanks to Claire-Lise Somer, Pascal Brahy, and to all the people who participated to this concert in favor of a project to rebuild a school after the disaster that hit Sri-Lanka in late 2004. A special mention to the excellent musicians who were there: Emmanuelle Somer as an oboe-magician, Marc Mangen infinitely melodic at the piano, David Fettmann who's Charlie Parker's reincarnation, and Jeff Herr on drums, amazing with hi dazzling energy.
Our first concert the Court seems to have been appreciated, so we played again early in the evening before 1.000 people, this time with the jazz repertoire.
Not so many people in the audience unfortunately but a really nice sound. And Fahem is such an amazing talented flamenco guitar-player. Thanks god we played before him!
Atmosphere just like we think it was in Woodstock back then on a truck in the middle of a field. And already a lot of enthusiasm. Thanks to Filippo, our Pete Best. He only performed once with us, but he's our fifth Serendipity member!
Tico-Tico (4.4 MB)
Morrisson's jig (2.5 Mo)
