 | | Bird saved the night at a rain soaked Musikcafeen. |
The rain put a stop to the night’s electronic/amplified performances at Musikcafeen, but the acoustic humming of Bird saved the evening.
Just before 22.00 when the first of the evenings concerts at Musikcafeen was to begin, the water was dripping from the ceiling, and the staff where running slightly panicky around looking for buckets. About 80 guests, filled the café, but there where no moans of disappointment to be heard.
The Dj’s setup was deemed unusable, since it had already been showered in water, which had been dripping onto and into it, due to holes in the roof and the short but intense rainstorm, which had hit the town.
Sadly as they where trying to patch up the trickling water, they did not realize that the panel that the music equipment was to run through, was taking a cool wash down from the early summer rain. And at 22.10 the manager had to announce that the evening concerts where cancelled, so there was to be given a refund to the paying guests.
But despite the trouble, Janie Price on cello, better known as Bird, bathed in red light, conquered the small stage. Playing a relaxed and down to earth unplugged concert, herself on cello with her two co-musicians one also on cello and the other using himself as a human beat-box while playing a calabash, filled the room with experimenting and humbling melodies.
Charmed by Janie Price’s schoolgirl like manner, accomplished song writing, and sweet English vocals, she allured her audience and involved them actively in the performance. So the audience simply started pitching in, creating their own careful and vivid beats, singing along as Janie Price played The Smiths song ”Some girls” which she had re-written to ”Some Boys”, and likewise with her own song ‘Stalker’.
The audience did not seem to bother much about the technical difficulties, but dived into the acoustic concert readily and hungry. There was a sense of composed relaxation in the air, and five songs later the concert was over; and so the quit and attentive audience, actually got what they came for (a experience), and maybe a little bit more.
Outside the rain had subsided and the sky had turned indigo, as the guests started to move on, to the night’s other concerts and parties.
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