Yiddish Summer Weimar

It was a boring evening in Erfurt, same time last year, when my friend Tanja and me decided - out of a mood - to see if there is something going on in Weimar, which is nearby. We weren't expecting much, Weimar is not a very big city...but we found something that i could never let go of. On the market there were people singing, dancing, laughing, the guests singing along, they looked like a band of gipsies to me,singing in a language i have heard before, long long time ago (when i was a 12 year old girl in one of our music lessons in secondary school)... yiddish. A language and culture that should not be forgotten. And the team of "Yiddish Summer Weimar" does an amazing job making people aware of it. I'd say not just aware...they do make them interested. Every summer they offer workshops in Weimar, also having concerts and jam sessions (which i love the most!) in this cultural city, giving not only their music and culture but also kindness, brotherliness and very very precious memories. Thank you, Other music e.V. team.

To give you a feeling of what is happening, i took some videos and cut them together into one video. And theres another whole video of them covering the Irish song "Dirty old town" (much better than the original! Great job!). Enjoy!

And some more pics from the evening...(the dessert you see on the first pic is called "Baklava", a DELICIOUS arabic dessert - the jam session took place at "Divan", an arabic restaurant).

Holy moly me-oh-my, I'm so happy I could cry

It's there :)

If this is what we've got, then all we've got is gold - meet Mister Blunt

Last night I've been at the James Blunt concert in Erfurt. It was the best concert I've ever been to. You either love or dislike his music, i think there is nothing in between when it comes to him. Surprisingly the soft music singer turned into a bit of a rockstar. His new album is alot more impulsive and lively then the others. In my opinion, he improves himself from album to album. There was no big show, the main focus was on his music, the words he is singing, which have a deep meaning most of the time.

It was a sitting concert but the crowd didnt want to sit. The fans rushed to the stage, so did I because I didn't see the point in a sitting concert, much to the anger of the security. But in the end, the fans were the lucky ones. I ended up being in the very front row, right infront of Blunt himself, where i took about 30 videos..

Here are two of the videos, just look at his facial expression, this man really means what he is singing. This is what i like most about him - his songs tell the stories of his life:

My friend won VIP tickets so theres a very close look ;-) :