City Views Bonn – U-Bahn-Haltestelle/Subway Stop Deutsche Telekom/Platz der Vereinten Nationen

City Views Bonn – Moving Stairs to the Subway

City Views Bonn – Kennedybrücke seen from the Theatre/Opera Terrace

City Views Bonn – Pützchens Markt

City Views Bonn/Bonner Sommer – “Bühne frei für Beethoven” – Beethovenfest 2010 opening Festival

On Saturday, September 11,  Bonn Beethovenfenfest traditionally opened its concert series in the city with “Bühne frei für Beethoven” or “Stage free for Beethoven”. On this occasion a selection of  approximately 50 school ensembles - classic orchestras, big bands and choirs – were invited to perform on various locations in the city, e.g. Münsterplatz, Bonngasse and main station forecourt (Bonner Loch, now called Klanggrund). For the seventh time since 2004 several hundred school boys and girls changed the city in a pulsating multifaceted music zone where you could listen to impressive sounding pieces of classical music and swinging jazz melodies performed, amongst others, by EMA Orchestra with the talented piano player Fabian Müller and the Bonn Music School Big Band, directed by Bela Weissbach.

City Views Bonn/Bonner Sommer – Quartet “Paris la Nuit” – Clarisse Catarino

City Views Bonn – 26th International Silent Film Days

From 12-22 August visitors of the Bonn International Silent Film Days at the picturesque arcade court of the Bonn University Main Building could enjoy on a big screen a selection of 20 more or less popular silent movies accompanied by live music, including the recently restored version of Fritz Lang’s Masterpiece “Metropolis” (1927). 

Despite the many rainy days this year the admission-free 10-day open-air event managed by the nonprofit organization Förderverein Filmkultur Bonn e.V attracted approximately 20000 visitors.

The 26th and possibly last edition –  if the festival should no longer receive subsidies from the city -  of the Bonn International Film Days was closed on Sunday, August 22, with the American silent movie “Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata” (1909).

City Views Bonn/Bonner Sommer – Nulltarif

On Saturday, July 31,  Nulltarif perfomed at Klanggrund or Bonner Loch. The boy group from Neuffen near Stuttgart plays german pussy rock. it’s to say very loud, powerful  mainstream pop/punk/rock with german lyrics, the type of music especially teens like to listen to. Nulltarif are: Jules Zeidler (guitar, vocals), Denis Polanc (bass, vocals) and Tobias Hirner (drums, vocals).

See also: http://rudycouvreur.wordpress.com/2007/07/04/city-views-bonnbonner-sommer-musik-im-park-velvet-june-nulltarif/

City Views Bonn/Bonner Sommer – Bonn-Africa in Concert

On Saturday, July 24, only a week after the sparkling hip-hop concert-performance of Jesers, the music band Bonn-Africa played with great success at Klanggrund,  Bonn’s 2010 summer concert location in the city. Bonn-Africa is a multi-national band with musicians of various african countries, e.g . Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Sambia and South-Africa, supported by local musicians. The band, directed by Saico Balde (guitar/vocals), played enjoyable pschedelic pop based african music, where people got up on the floor and danced playfully on sunset.

City Views Bonn/Bonner Sommer – Guildo Horn & Die orthopädischen Strümpfe

It’s hard to imagine the annual Beer Festival in Bonn without kick off-concert of Guildo Horn and his band, Die orthopädischen Strümpfe (The orthopedic Socks). Traditionally the “Master” and his quartet - August Schrader, guitar/vocals; Addi Mollig, keyboards/vocals; Gisela Ginster alias Tommy Fischer, drums; Petra Pogo, bass/vocals -  closed the meanwhile 15th edition of the Beer Festival on the flower meadow at Rheinaue, on Sunday, July 25, with a fulminant and much applauded 2-hour music show with their best songs. 

City Views Bonn/Bonner Sommer – Jesers

City Views Bonn/Bonner Sommer – Sparkling HipHop Concert with Jesers & La Vieille Ecole at Klanggrund

Saturday evening, July 17,  Jesers, alias Serge Moniz supported by La Vieilee Ecole ( Philippe Moniz/percussions and Marc Geschickt/guitar) came together at Klanggrund/Bonner Loch to perform their show, called “J’aimerais qu’on sème”, a sweeping mix of cool sounding chansons, rap, slam and world music. Fairly quickly, Jesers – trio’s charming leader, singer and songwriter –  created a magical ambiance and managed the large electrified crowd that showed up for the spectacle to sing along and to jump to their feet to dance en masse towards the stage. Thunderous applause at the end of  the sparkling concert for the French musicians from Mulhouse en Alsace, who in return did several encores before finally leaving the stage.

City Views Bonn/Bonner Sommer – Bishop’s Stortford High School in Concert

Tuesday, July 13, brass band, modern jazz ensemble, choir and guitar trio of Bishop’s Stortford High School from Herfordshire/England visited Bonn to give a free concert on the large open-air stage at “Klanggrund”. “Klanggrund” –  better known as “Bonner Loch” -  in front of the Main Station is Bonn’s summer concert venue during restoration works of the old town hall at the market place. Despite the really hot weather this day, the approx. 30 young musicians, directed by Dubheasa Bray and Tim Litchfield, performed a brilliant and very applauded concert with a varied programme, from John Dowland to Miles Davies.

City Views Bonn/Bonner Sommer – Ensemble van Beethoven

Musicians of Ensemble van Beethoven in concert at Bonn Theatre’s season opening party on August 30.

City Views Bonn/Bonner Sommer – Schääl Sick Big Band’s first Concert

 Schääl Sick Big Band gave its first successful concert with mix of pop and swing music at the 2009 Beuel district party, on Sunday, September 6. The big band was founded in 2008 by musical instrument builder Gottfried Büchel and is directed by Hans Thomas. Schääl Sick Big Band comprises 25 musicians and is supported by lady singer Claudia Thiessen.

City Views Bonn/Bonner Sommer – Sir Williams, tribute to Robbie Williams

Sir Williams “the one and only Robbie Williams tribute show” from Siegburg, at the annual Beuel district party (Bürgerfest) on Sunday, September 6.

Michael Niess

Rolf Montenbrück

Markus Müller

City Views Bonn – Beethovenfest 2009 – Festival Opening Day

On Saturday, September 5, symphony orchestras, bassoon, flute, piano and violin players, children’s and youth choirs as well as brass bands took the stages for “Bühne frei für Beethoven”, the opening festival of  the 2009 Bonn Beethovenfest. From 12-19 pm more than 1000 young musicians performed highly enjoyable live music on nearly every corner of the city.

City Views Bonn/Bonner Sommer – Competition for High School Big Bands

On Sunday, August 30, a competition for high school big bands took place in the Chestnuts Garden of Rheinhotel Dreesen in Bad Godesberg. The theme was “Ode to Joy”  from Beethoven’s famous 9th symphony. Four big bands participated in the competiton, namely: CoJoBo Big Band (Collegium Josephinum), HBG Jazz Band (Hardtberg Gymnasium), Wooden Helmets-Big Band (Helmholtz-Gymnasium) and Rhine Island Big Band (Gymnasium Nonnenwerth). Finally, after a thrilling musical competition, the ensembles of Helmholtz-Gymnasium and Gymnasium Nonnenwerth were selected as the winners by the jury, chaired by the popular German trombonist and bandleader Peter Herbolzheimer.

City Views Bonn – An Evening of Jazz at Bad Godesberg City Park Summer Party

For the first time the annual Bad Godesberg City Park Summer Party on Saturday August, 29, closed with a very well-attended evening of swinging traditional and dixieland jazz on the main stage near the tennis courts. The meeting was opened at 7 p.m. by Papa Joe’s Jazzmen, a group of 6 musicians from Cologne, namely: Wiel Derix (sousaphone), Reiner Polz (drums), Ronald Schliewa (bass), Prof. Dr. Heinz Thissen (banjo/guitar), Klaus Wegener (saxphone/clarinet/vocals) and Didi Zander (trumpet/vocals). The second concert was presented by Allotria Jazzband from Munich, directed by Rainer Sander (clarinet/altosaxophone), supported by Gregor Beck (drums), Peter Cischeck (bass), Colin T. Dawson (trumpet/vocals) Juergen Hinz (guitar), Andrey Lobanov (trumpet), Fritz Stewens (trombone) and Thilo Wagner (piano).

City Views Bonn/Bonner Sommer – Schelmish – Mediaeval Hard Rock with Bagpipe and Shawm

Several thousand people came to Markplatz on Saturday, August 15, to see the powerful and highly enjoyable two-hour live music spectacle by Schelmish. Schelmish is a popular band from Bonn, founded in 1999,  who plays hard rock using – besides the electric guitar, drums and sampler – mediaeval instruments such as bagpipe, bouzouki and shawm. Great show and ambiance at Bonn Marktplatz from 8 – 10 p.m.

Schelmish was composed of : Dextro alias Esrael von Boeckstein (vocals, bagpipe, bombarde, bouzouki, flutes, guitar, shawm), Susanne DesDemonia (vocals, bagpipe, bouzouki, percussion), Picus von Corvin (davul, percussion, sampling), Samtron alias Jörg Duschanek (drums, percussion), Daniel San (e-guitar), Schwammi (bass), Rimsbold von Tiefentann alias Ulf von Schellenberg) vocals, bagpipes, shawm, flute, percussion) and Luzzi das L. (bagpipes,shawm).