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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.…

 We are deeply saddened by the passing of Cor Fuhler, founding member of Doek, musician, composer, band leader, instrument inventor and builder. His interests and contributions straddled genres and continents, so we join with people all over the world in saying farewell to an authentic, deeply creative spirit and a real human being.

We dedicate next week’s Doek Festival LIVE! to Cor and will be posting his music in the coming days. Later in the month Amsterdam friends will organise a get together to celebrate his life and memory.…

John’s timely mix has been up for a week or so! Didn’t notice? Subscribe to our Mixcloud, then you’ll be informed instantly with every new mix.

To say that we are indebted to African American Culture is a gross understatement. Here are just a few classic pieces from brilliant Black men and women from the past and today. Photo by Sara Anke Morris from the recent Black Lives Matter protest in Brussels.…

At present many people can’t hear live music. Here’s a few suggestions for online watching and listening:
– The Doek Bandcamp page for a large selection of Doek releases on various labels
– Doek RAW, our second bandcamp page featuring pay what you want digital only releases
– The Doek You Tube channel
– Cafe Oto live streams
– Bimhuis TV
– Fight Corona Series Live streaming of concerts and [performances

Of course there are plenty more, but this should keep you going for a while.…

DE PARTICIPATING MUSICIANS HAVE MADE THE DECISION NOT TO PLAY TONIGHT – sorry for the late notice. Hopefully we can present this great line-up at a later date.

Friday 13 March, 21:00, De Ruimte.
€8 SITP ft Doek, €6 2nd Stop is Jupiter, €10 combined ticket
Space is the Place ft Doek
Blue Lines Trio with Wolter Wierbos
Michiel Scheen – piano
Raoul van der Weide – double bass
George Hadow – drums
Wolter Wierbos – trombone
Rave / Skoric / Renfrow
Ada Rave – tenor sax
Aleksandar Skoric – drums
Tristan Renfrow – drums

The 2nd Stop is Jupiter
Yodel Queen A young Amsterdam band with one foot in postpunk and the other in the confessional.…