Why you should book  me

 

I will put my focus on my own songs, though I like to play ethnical music or hommages to other artists. If I had to mention an artist to whom I feel especially connected, I would name John Lennon, whose spirit I try to keep alive by playing his songs.

 

It fascinates me about Lennon, that he was continously progressing and transcending. Today he is mainly associated with the peace-and-love-movement. But if you know his biography, it becomes clear, that he had a very complex personality and had his processes to live those ideals. With his creative ability to express himself, one can easily participate where he was standing at each point of his life. His life was driven by the strife to refine himself, to become more authentic and serene. 

 

Lennon was a genius as a musician and as a poet. Though, I think, the greatest gift he left behind, is the dictum “love is the answer“ -  which appears almost kitschy today and is usually assoziated with the hippy-movement, but which was made by poets and prophets since thousands of years. He has carried those words so prominently like no one else into the 20th centuary. This dictum is usually interpreted as weakness. But it takes courage to open up and show ones vulnerablity. Maybe courage is not the right word, if one has realized it as a necessity. For it is the only possibility to avoide to create ones life out of the garbage of the past, but to open a new chapter.

 

It is imbedded in the spirit of music, that only the present counts. Even if one uses tradional songs and compositions, the only possibility to breath life into them is the present moment. So every concert is an invitation to be connected by the flow of this ever-present. At least that's the challenge. In this sense: Bon voyage!