| Sunday May 7 2006 |
Feeling hot hot hot!!!
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Dutch freedom celebration ...right...while we were happily and hotly stuck in the front room of Café marktzicht in Drachten. For the Fling-connaisseurs among you: we used to be a band of six in that cute little place! Soon, the café was filled up with brave and terribly sweaty Fling-fans. Now, our music is at it's best by candlelight and a hearty Frisian pea-soup with the bitter cold of the Dutch winter weather blowing outside. A little dance and you'd warm up soon and you'd forget all about the cold. You'd think, what with a temperature of 20 degrees Celsius at nine o'clock at night, everyone would be chilling on an outside terrace drinking icy-cold soda's. Not so in Drachten...The place was packed with swinging Guinness drinking Frisians!! Even in that sweltering heat they persevered and stayed and stayed...and stayed.
We worked up a healthy sweat as well. But...not a note was missed, no slipping fingers, no breaking strings (2-0 Peter vs. Strings!). No detuning fiddles or ripping overheated bodhrán skins. Evert-Jan's pipes stayed in tune beautifully, must have something to do with those Spanish reeds...But er...For the next summer-gig in Drachten we will bring our bikinis though! Come and see for yourself...
Bikini mini-me de Bie |
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