An evening with Thomas Kraft and the band "tell me no lies"
Our focus is on America, the land of unlimited possibilities, and its music. More precisely: the other America. Not the country we idealized as teenagers, not the land from which everything we desired came. The land of dreams and myths, the land of cowboys and vast prairies, the land of freedom and equality, where the pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the constitution. The country has changed - and its music has changed.
An evening about today's America and its music must also be a political evening. The country is divided, the political factions are uncompromising. This situation is not new and it has also shaken the previously idyllic world of country music. The traditional music from Nashville, which mainly extols rural idyll, the dust of endless highways, beer, whiskey, "God's Country," and the unwavering patriotism of its inhabitants, has renewed itself in the past thirty years. It is now called Americana and in its stories, it also addresses the poverty and misery of rural dwellers, tells of drugs, migration, racism, and social problems.
And so, on this evening, we take you on a musical-literary journey to the Appalachians, to the swamps of Florida, to the farmland of the Flyover Countries, which feel disconnected and neglected, and where tensions are simmering, and where the future destiny of America will be decided. Not only because presidential elections are scheduled for November 5, 2024. With texts, photos – and music by Jason Collett, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Jamestown Revival, Sheryl Crow, Band of Heathens, Ryan Bingham, Jason Isbell, High South, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, The Jayhawks.
Admission at 7:30 pm.
Hallo, ich bin Maya.
