During the first weekend of August I am going to play with my old father at the 39th “Bardentreffen Nürnberg”, which will mark that it is exactely 100 years since Germany declared war against Russia, and a couple of days later, against France.
The headline of the festival is “War and Peace”, and the job is to sing soldiers’ songs and peace songs from Denmark, the serious ones as well as the many joking songs that the Danish soldiers used, to keep up the spirit. We will work with a tranlater on stage, and it is going to be ver interesting and probably pretty entertaining, to see the old man tell his many great stories to the German audience through an interpreter.
We have, with generous help from the people behind this great festival, made sure that we have a couple of days in Nürnberg. It has been quite a while since I have been visiting such a large city with my old man, and I am sure that Nürnberg is going to be a lot of fun. We will be looking for exciting instruments, cloth for the traveling people and German beer, of course
More info at www.bardentreffen.de