We’ve just released a recording of the Boerenbond from Doek Festival 2003 in remembrance of Cor Fuhler.
“For Doek Festival 2003 I wrote music for a group with Cor Fuhler (organ and keyolin), Guus Janssen (piano and celesta), Oren Marshall (tuba), Michael Vatcher (trap drums, huge bass drum, gongs) and myself (cornet). We had the chance to practice 3 days extensively. We got ourselves to the point that we could play the music (the ideas) well and fresh.…
Doek is sorry to announce that our applications for structural four-year funding from both the Performing Arts Fund (FPK) and the Amsterdam Arts Fund (AFK) have been rejected. As things now stand this means that Doek will have no structural funding from the beginning of next year. We are currently considering our options – what is certain is that we have plenty of plans for the future, and want to continue to contribute to the development of improvised music, work with our many partners, and share our music with our audience, locally, nationally and internationally.…
LOOT, the new quartet formed by Oscar Jan Hoogland and featuring Ab Baars, Uldis Vitols and Onno Govaert, performed two sets at the Bimhuis for Doek Festival LIVE!
The second set was filmed beautifully by Bimhuis TV. Note in the description, they have included a link where you can donate directly to the artists. Not a bad idea…!
Doek Festival LIVE! presented numerous challenges for us as an organization but we are very proud that we were able to present a wide variety of fantastic live music in a responsible way. The festival was smaller, and not as many people traveled from abroad to perform or attend, but the spirit was soaring among those who were there.
Here’s a collection of images from the festival, shot by members of the audience.
Part 1 features photography of our dear friend Cristina Marx, #Photomusix.…
Doek Festival LIVE! has been great so far. Everyone is happy to play and hear LIVE music again! Thanks to de Warme Winkel, de Brakke Grond and het Bimhuis for hosting us. Today the musicians will host you in their gardens or open work spaces. Drop in between 12 and 5 hear some music, talk about it, have a drink, share some ideas. Entrance by donation, the musicians decide what they will do and when. Please respect social distancing! Here’s the program:
12:00 – 17:00 – Eerste Atjehstraat 146hs, 1094 KV
Superinca Galactic Green
Acoustic Garden Hang with Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti vocals, Thijs Elzinga guitar, Joop Bollinger guitar, Oscar Jan Hoogland keyboards, Marcos Baggiani percussion
14:00 – 17:00 – Levantkade 9, 1019 MC
Mark Nieuwenhuis trumpets and electronics, and Chris Corstens saxes, flutes and electronics will make soundscapes and beats in the garden.…
Day 1 of Doek LIVE! at the Peepshow Palace, created by De Warme Winkel, in De Brakke Grond. That’s right, the stage is spinning! And the audience is comfortably seated in their beautiful, individual cabins.
Wollo’s Brass Blast, the quintet trombonist Wolter Wierbos especially put together for the Peepshow Palace, featuring Eric Boeren (cornet), Salvoandrea Lucifora (trombone, sousaphone), Joost Buis (trombone) and Partick Votrian (trombone, tuba, sousaphone).
Excerpt from Train Ride, by the late, great Sean Bergin.…