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Thread #99346   Message #1983134
Posted By: Susanne (skw)
01-Mar-07 - 04:01 PM
Thread Name: German Folk- and Blues-Singers
Subject: RE: German Folk- and Blues-Singers
Gulliver, Herzen in Terzen will be appearing in Kiel tomorrow night. I'm looking forward to that.

Ron Davies, you omitted to say that Walter Scheel is not another German folksinger but used to be Germany's Bundespräsident (head of state) back in the last century. Was the recording made for charity? I can't remember, but his wife was head of a cancer charity, so maybe it had to do with that.

Leadbelly - Fiedel Michel, long departed (though there was a reunion in Rudolstadt some years back, I believe)
Also, I could name quite a few extremely well-known songs by Reinhard Mey (Über den Wolken, Gute Nacht Freunde, Der Mörder ist immer der Gärtner and others) - a version of Cohen's Suzanne is not among them.

Next Whitsun there will be a songfest at Burg Waldeck, where it all started forty years ago.