I have to admit that I had been very nervous before that concert. The LANXESS arena, Germany’s largest multiplex arena in Cologne hosted the concert of Ben Zucker on 6th November 2019. I have been to this place easily more than 200 times, for concerts, ice hockey, Handball World Championship and some more reasons. It was my second time in the arena with my camera stuff – but being in front of the spectators for three songs, though, was my absolute debut.
Ben Zucker is an exciting act, who had massive success in the last years in Germany. He selected very interesting support for his almost sold out shows: The Cologne concert belongs to the first part of the tour, where he is supported by German country -pop artist Van de Forst. During the second part of the tour, Canadian country music superstar Lindsay Ell will be heating up the crowds before the main act. Still not a Sound of Nashville show, but a lot of country music in it 🙂
This posting comes with a 522 major size picture gallery in the concert gallery section.
LANXESS arena Cologne – About the Venue
The Cologne LANXESS arena, which is also called Kölnarena (Cologne Arena , its original name) or Henkelmännchen (“Henkel” means handle – the name points on the remarkable architecture) in Cologne is located on the East Side of Cologne, in the Deutz borough, very close to local transport and the Cologne trade fair. It is also quite conveniently linked to road traffic. Its maximum capacity is 20,000 for concerts and 18,700 for ice hockey. In the beginning of the Kölnarena days, the only variation of capacity for concerts was not to use the upper tier. Nowadays (and also due to a lack of arenas in Cologne with that capacity), the stage is sometimes also moved forward significantly, so that you get a theater feeling.
Apart from Premium / VIP tickets, the admission to the Ben Zucker show was 60 Euro in the best category. The venue was not sold out, but 7,500 was a quite impressive attendance.
Ben Zucker & Van de Forst – About the Artists
Selling 400,000 copies of your debut album and already having 50 millions streams of your songs at that stage of the career is not all bad. Ben Zucker is reached these milestones already – and this is even more remarkable as the 1983 born artist, whose original name is Benjamin Frisch, is singing in German. His music, which is performs with a very powerful voice, is a mixture of different styles, a touch of pop, German Schlager and country music. He started playing guitar at the age of 14 and soon changed from covering English rock songs to German titles. His debut single in 2017, Na und?! (meaning So what?) had limited success and made it into the Swiss charts, but the same-titled album reached double platinum status in Germany and made it to the Top 10 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
In summer 2019, he released his second album Wer sagt das (english: Who says that? ) and had similar success in the album charts, at leasr regarding the album placement. He sang with and supported Bonnie Tyler and Helene Fischer (one of the best selling female artists of the world, despite singing German) in the past.
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Van de Forst is one of the few successful German acts who clearly state that they are doing country music . The mid-20s young lady already had remarkable success by supporting a couple of really prominent names like Michael Bolton or Bonnie Tyler. She published her debut album in 2015, Lucky . Her artist name is a short form of her given one, Vanessa von der Forst. I was very much looking forward to see her on stage, as she could be one of these domestic country artists, who helps to boost the genre in Germany.
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Ben Zucker & Van de Forst – The Show
Van de Forst started with her 20 minute set right in time at 19:50 hrs. She introduced herself as being a proud country musician and started her set with Dolly Parton’s Jolene . Thereafter, she performed five of her own songs, including Round The Bend . The final song of the set was Paint This Town. Overall, the songs on stage sounded significantly less country-alike than the studio versions do. The crowds partially appreciated her show.
Very unlikely for an arena show with a support act, the lights in the arena stayed turned down and during the intermission to prepare the stage was some decent light show and background music. Ben Zucker was scheduled to step on stage at 20:30 hrs. The first three songs of his set were Verschworen, Wer sagt das?! and Ja ich will . While he used the main stage for these songs, Zucker and the band later performed on the gangway which has been used by Van de Forst before. Definitely one highlight of the concert was a duet of Zucker and his sister. Later a bridge was lowered from the roof area and even brought the artists to the minor stage in the back of the spectators area. They played Immer wieder Du and Alles für mich as acoustic versions, before they headed up the arena with a medley of German classic (mainly Schlager) songs like Rio Reiser’s König von Deutschland or Helene Fischer’s Atemlos durch die Nacht .
Back on main stage, there were more party songs like Mein Berlin , where confetti was shot into the arena for the second time. After a couple of more songs, the last two songs of the ordinary set were Wir lieben uns wieder and Na und , which finished around 22:15 before the encore. The show finished around 22:30.
Ben Zucker & Van de Forst – The Gallery
The concert gallery hosts 522 major size pictures in the following sub-section:
Ben Zucker & Van de Forst – My View
First of all, it was great to see Van de Forst on stage. She sang we a lot of spirit and attitude and proofed her skills. I think she got a lot of talent, but she did not get a good touch that evening for the audience – maybe she just needs one or two songs, which the people like at first sight / first listening. I felt her songs are stronger as studio versions and as a support act with a 25 minute set, you just don’t have a second chance. Nevertheless, I feel that we will see her back on country stages as well as on major ones very soon. There is too much good music in this young lady!
Ben Zucker was just awesome. At the beginning, I felt that the audience was not too powerful and willing to cheer this evening, but towards the end of the set, he gave the Cologne large arena a real treat. His voice, his power is just amazing. He loves telling his fans stories about his life in his songs. That works – no matter in which language. And it feels just like a great and honest show!
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Quite some interesting rock music to be released on 26th February 2021. I originally wanted to start my reviews of ...
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Nino de Angelo is one of my favorite German artists. I will definitely tell you about a very special concert ...
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While so far the only German dialect I feature on Flyctory.com is Kölsch, the lovely way to speak in my ...
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Jack McBannon does a quite interesting and versatile fusion of different Americana music styles. Being on stage for twenty years ...
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With Flyctory.com growing and thus having access to major promotion networks, I get in touch into music I would likely ...
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During a dinner concert in June 2020 of a Cologne local band, Cat Ballou (who will be part of my selection), I ...
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Apart from global mainstream sounds, there are some genres, which have a quite local popularity. The German Schlager is one ...
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I enjoy to present German acts as part of my media reviews - and even more if they are successful ...
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Originall, the German Neue Deutsche Welle legends Paso Doble were scheduled to release her new album Urknall on 15th January 2021, ...
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I am always happy to chat with German artists on my blog in the Spotlight interview category. Ann Doka is ...
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It started on 27th July 2018 with Talk of This Town by Catherine McGrath. Last weekend, I reached another milestone: with Immortal ...
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Covid-19 has some weird impacts: as a major German pressing plant had to reduce operation due to the pandemic, a ...
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Happy Birthday, Michael Schenker - some three weeks after the German rock legend turned 65 years, he is back with ...
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Gehst Du mit mir unter - "Are you drowning with me" is the album title of a new German music project ...
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Even though Tragedian is a Hamburg-based project, their members come from quite some parts of Europe. I got to have ...
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While I guess that you knew a lot of the songs I presented you so far as a Song of My ...
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Lina Larissa Strahl, as a musical act simply called LINA, is having a bit of an age issue: the nowadays ...
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After they got quite some good critics for their debut album, the German metal / hardcore band Bashdown starts 2021 ...
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Peter Schilling is a legendary name of the German music business. Major Tom gave him international reputation. So far, Schilling ...
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292 Media Review postings - looking into new music (and a few other) releases was definitely some sort of core ...
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2020 is about to come to an end - and the last three posting of the years re about to ...
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Sodom is one of the finest names for Thrash Metal made in Germany. The band is already having a 38 ...
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Alternative rock made in Hamburg - the German band Tusq is already active for eleven years. Time to release some ...
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Dirk Busch's 1980's song Du bist keine Mona List would be a perfect candidate for my new Songs of my Life category ...
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The story of Ross Antony is quite amazing: having an English education as a musical artist, Antony is nowadays a ...
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50 years of Bläck Fööss - the "naked feet", what is the literal translation of their band name are a ...
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Latest when Michelle represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 in Copenhagen, she became an important part of the ...
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Just ten days before she is releasing her debut album Desert Diamond, I introduced you to the promising German country music ...
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When you look at European country music, you very often purely focus on British artists. However, the German country music ...
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From street music to the tops of the German charts - Saltatio Mortis have taken the very tough route to ...
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Since I have been registered at a promotion company, I receive quite frequent teasers and links to various types of ...
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The Yonder Boys are definitely an interesting, but also kind of weird and funny combo, which is based in Germany, ...
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Undoubtedly, Van de Forst is one of the most interesting German acts in the country music scene. Her country / ...
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Scanning the new releases as of 28th August 2020, I ran into the Hamburg-based band miu. The gained quite some ...
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Fourteen years after their latest album, the German project X-Perience is releasing a new album. The fifth long-play release of ...
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I saw Sarah Zucker for the first time on stage, when she joined her brother Ben in Cologne's largest LANXESSarena ...
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When I read about the collaboration, I knew I just had to do a review of this project: one of ...
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Marquess is a very popular band in Germany and the neighboring countries. With Turbulento, they are back in the record stores, ...
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Beyond The Black got some additional focus in Germany when their lead singer Jennifer Haben joined the popular TV format Sing ...
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20 year old Marie Reim is an interesting upcoming artist in the German schlager scene. Both of her parents are ...
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Thomas Anders and Florian Silbereisen are some sort of a new super-band in the German Schlager genre. Both are famous ...
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During the Covid-19 crisis, I visited quite a couple of drive-in movies, which became a very popular kind of entertainment ...
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Sometimes, life as a music blogger is strange. Scanning the new releases (as every Friday) on 22nd May 2020 made ...
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Covid-19 has a huge impact on the music industry. My home town Cologne's local country music heroes, Mrs. Greenbird, were ...
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Even though Covid-19 is taking quite much of our time, we should really enjoy the good things - and at ...
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Nico Santos is a German artist, which made it quite big and gained international attention the last years. He is ...
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60 years of Axel Rudi Pell - one of the big names in the German metal scene is celebrating this ...
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Already the first single Back On The Road felt very promising - and at least when The Cumberland River Project released their ...
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Typically, after I have completed my first wave of reviews (which was quite quick on that 17th April 2020 due ...
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Many people in the German country music business see a lot of potential in Southern German artist Nik Wallner. At ...
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Van De Forst is one of the most interesting German country music / country pop music act. Vanessa, the person ...
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Country music made in Germany? There are more and more projects which feel to be very promising. In my point ...
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Time for some discussions in the German music scene - the Böhse Onkelz released their 17th studio album on 28th ...
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Heinz Rudolf Kunze is one of the biggest songwriters and rock musicians in Germany. Already in the 1980s, he had ...
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Country music made in Germany? Especially in the last few months, there have been a couple of acts, which feel ...
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While there were not too many country music releases on my intiial review list, there were some quite interesting new ...
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I decided to split the "Best music" postings of 2019 into two parts: while I already published my personal Best ...
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2019 has come to an end - and music has been one of the key topics of Flyctory.com in 2019 ...
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Right after I returned from Pittsburgh, Sound of Nashville and the German country music scene came back on my schedule ...
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Though the Pete Wolf Band just released their second album on 6th December 2019, they are big names in the ...
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I was quite stunned when I ran into an Instagram advertisement: Björn Heuser, a Cologne singer- songwriter just recently released ...
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Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester is likely not the kind of music you would expect to be reviewed on ...
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When I was on social media, the account of a friend reminded me that Alex Christensen. After two amazingly successful ...
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One of the few German country/folk acts, which gained some international reputation in the past is Cologne-based Mrs. Greenbird. Before ...
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There is an easy musical way to make myself happy while driving my wife nuts in parallel: Andreas Dorau. I ...
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Mrs. Greenbird was the only Germany-based band who were playing at the C2C debut in Berlin 2019. This definitely illustrates ...
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Avantasia, one of the most successful German music projects, released their seventh album (eighth, if you count in a live ...
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As blogging on music became a quite frequent category at Flyctory.com, I felt to look back to 2018 and introduce ...
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Kiddo Kat already a viral hit on Youtube in 2016. Now, Anna Guder produced her first album "Piece of Cake" ...
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Doro Pesch is back - before she will tour in late 2018/early 2019, she just released a double album: while ...
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The former German capital Bonn has a vast tradition of open air concerts. Their current premier open air location is ...
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Postings about Concerts
All postings about concerts I visited:
Home town Cologne instead of Nashville: after my trip to CMA Fest in Nashville had to be cancelled due to ...
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Somehow, a sad moment. The last show of Weird Al Yankovic on this trip. Day 5 would take me from ...
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Day 3 of my Weird Al Yankovic trip in April 2022 likely had the most relaxed schedule of all. No ...
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I did do the Opry Backstage Tour before, but ninth day of my Pittsburgh Penguins trip in March 2022 also ...
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During the last years, October has been one of the big months for European country music fans: being already "traditional" ...
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During the Covid-19 crisis, I visited quite a couple of drive-in movies, which became a very popular kind of entertainment ...
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Not just in regards of the third day of my time in California, but also for the whole trip following ...
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The last four big acts of the C2C Country To Country in Berlin 2020 - the three days have been ...
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My third and final issue of stories around the C2C in Berlin - time to finish the days of country ...
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Sunday, 8th March 2020, the third day in Berlin. Already that typical mixture of feelings: looking forward to the last ...
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After a good start on Main Stage on Day 1 with Luke Combs, Jimmie Allen and Darius Rucker headlined the ...
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After the the first side stage acts on Day 1 of the C2C Country To Country 2020 in Berlin, Day ...
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Saturday in Berlin is over. A lot of good music has been played on several stages - but some stories ...
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Time for the big party - after the side stage artists of Day 1 have cheered up the audience, it ...
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C2C Country To Country in Berlin 2020 - time to start the second edition of the festival on 6th March ...
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The German Country Music Scene is having their highest holidays - The C2C in Berlin started on 6th March 2020 ...
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A lot has happened since the Country 2 Country 2020 headliners for all five venues have been published in October 2019 ...
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Going to Hassocks, a village North of Brighton, was a very special moment to me on Saturday, 8th February 2020 ...
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Five days after I saw Brett Eldredge and Lauren Jenkins at the Carlswerk Victoria show in Cologne, Germany, I traveled ...
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Right after the show of Brett Eldredge and Lauren Jenkins in the large venue of the Paradiso, the Dutch Sound ...
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The first Sound of Nashville show of the year - it felt really good to be back close to the ...
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Right after I returned from Pittsburgh, Sound of Nashville and the German country music scene came back on my schedule ...
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After I visited a couple of Sound of Nashville shows in Cologne and surroundings, I felt lucky to do my ...
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One of the few German country/folk acts, which gained some international reputation in the past is Cologne-based Mrs. Greenbird. Before ...
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An eventful debut of the first German Country Music Week presented by Sound of Nashville ended in Cologne with the ...
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While the Sound of Nashville October started big with the the concert of Old Dominion. One day after the big ...
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I had a quite unfortunate timing with the debut of the German Country Music week. I missed some shows due ...
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During the London Country Music Week, Country 2 Country traditionally presented the lineup for the festival. Every year, fans pray ...
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As I really enjoyed to listen to Andy Clark's new album I Love Joyce Morris, I was really hoping to manage ...
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Right after I returned from a vacation trip to Tenerife, I headed from Frankfurt Airport to Das Bett (literally: The Bed), a Frankfurt ...
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Rock of Ages is my favorite musical. At the time of writing, I saw it 30 times, in four countries ...
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Just one week after I had seen Lauren Jenkins together with Jilian Jacqueline and Gary Quinn at the YUCA in ...
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The final day of the British Country Music Festival differed significantly from the two days before: the program started slightly ...
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After Sarah Darling's amazing performance on Day 1, Saturday evening had a massive Ballroom line-up, featuring Twinnie, The Adelaides, Honey ...
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Friday, the 13th - not the most luck-calling date for the first day of the debut of this new country ...
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Quite surprisingly, there seems to be a quite sudden competition about the promotion and management of country music concerts in ...
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The Sound of Nashville series of concerts more and more established in the German country music scene. While I visited one ...
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September 2019 is a country music concert months full of highlights. Just one day after I returned from my Aschaffenburg ...
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Eric Paslay and his song Friday Night was one of the first songs, which really made me get in touch with ...
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As part of my Weird Al and Grass Court Tennis 2019 trip, I already visited two concerts of Weird Al ...
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After taking the first steps into country music and country music concerts in the early Flyctory.com days, the website is ...
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The second half of 2019 features a massive lineup of country music stars in Germany. As you can see in ...
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String Attached - the 2019 tour of Weird Al Yankovic is backed up by (local) symphonic orchestras. I traveled into Gilford, ...
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During the CMA Fest 2019 in Nashville, I did quite a lot of Meet & Greets. I just felt it ...
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The beginning of June was a very flattering moment to me. After I got more and more into country music ...
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Just two days after I touched German soil back from CMA Fest 2019, I flew to London for another country ...
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Facebook, Instagram and all other kinds of internet sources nowadays allow you to (sometimes by chance) find, follow and support ...
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The closer CMA Fest 2019 came, the more I became aware of all the side events, which are not happening ...
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Getting more and more into country music, I more and more love songwriters rounds. Several singers or songwriters are on ...
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While country music feels to have a first boom in Germany, the Netherlands are slightly ahead and have a quite ...
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On Friday, 10th May 2019, the Arts Club in Liverpool hosted the 2019 stage of the CMT Next Women of ...
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The beginning of March 2019 was a country music powerhouse to me. The Country 2 Country (C2C) debut in Berlin, ...
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After my 2018 debut at the London Country 2 Country and the first-time German event in Berlin the weekend before, ...
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How to spent the time best between Country 2 Country 2019 in Berlin and Amsterdam and the "main events" in ...
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I visited Europe's biggest country music festival, Country 2 Country (C2C), for the first time in 2018 in London. I immediately ...
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The first time I saw Danielle Hope on stage was in the female lead character Sherrie in my favorite musical ...
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I love musicals in general - but two ones massively influenced my life. The first one was We will rock ...
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As part of her "Talk of this Town" tour, Catherine McGrath presented her equivalently named album. I visited the tour ...
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The former German capital Bonn has a vast tradition of open air concerts. Their current premier open air location is ...
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Day 4, back to Atlanta, heading to where the trip started... and to my final concert of this trip. The ...
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Saturday, 14th April, has not been regarded as the most thrilling day of this trip anyway. Travelling from the very ...
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So long awaited... Time for the first concert of my trip to the Weird Al Tour 2018! Tried to start ...
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As you might have seen in the other blog entries, I have been attending Europe's major country music festival, the ...
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Country 2 Country, short: C2C, has established to be the largest country music festival in Europe. In fact, it is ...
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