‘A Blues Legend’ muzikaal verhaal

Datum/Tijd
05/03/2017
15:00 - 16:15

Locatie
Het Eiland

Every day, every day I have the blues

Every day, every day I have the blues

Lost my money, lost my woman, ain’t got nothing left to lose

Zo begint de voorstelling ‘Ten Fingers Blind Willie’ geschreven, verteld, gespeeld en gezongen door Willem Niewold (gitaar, zang).

Basisingredienten zijn blues, ragtime en jazz

‘Ten Fingers Blind Willie was born blind, never got to see how good-looking he was until his miraculous healing by Doctor Brown at the age of eight-teen. That was one version of the story I came across in the Mississippi Delta. Not exactly what the devout people of Willie’s hometown church in Manchac, Louisiana, told me when I asked them. They claimed that Willie’s grandfather, the popular gospel-singer Reverend Jerry Daylight, taught him how to play guitar and sing gospel. They said Willie was obstinate, developed his own wayward way of playing and had the habit of changing words of a song after his own whimsical ideas.
Their version of the story was that in a fight with his grandfather over some controversial lyrics he wrote and sang to the local congregation, Willie, like Saint Paul, was struck with blindness in a bolt of lightning that lit up the southern skies that cloudless Sunday morning he ran out of church, slammed the door on gospel altogether and went out on the street to play the blues.’

Entree 10 euro (incl Slome Zondag)