Culture day

What a day! Full of exciting events. 
A friend of mine complained that she never got to hear mine and B's music-program about our Swedish poet and songwriter Evert Taube. I knew she has her birthday today so I suggested that B and me could do the rehearsal for our concert tomorrow in her home, as a birthday present. We have to rehearse anyway and tomorrows concert is not public. 
So she invited a few of her lady friends for a morning coffee and cake with some music to go with it. We had a very good live-situation rehearsal and they were a very good audience.

In the early afternoon I finished mixing a studio recording I made of the poetry/music program Eva and me has been playing for a while. 

Then, in the evening I went with some friends to the premiere of an event called "Unexpected Wednesday", which takes place in a very, very small theatre in the middle of the forest in Nowhere, quite a long way from where I live. A friend of mine, who retired from his job as a drama instructor at a school, just to be able to do this kind of thing instead, came up with the idea for this event. The last Wednesday every month in September-November he's organising an evening with different artforms. This evening a woman was doing a short lecture about local forgotten writers, an African actor performed some of his songs and told us about his life in Uganda under the dictator Idi Amin. When he was tipped by friends in the administration, that he was going to be killed for his role in a critical play about misused power, he managed to flee and ended up in Sweden. Then a writer told us about various projects on how to interest children and young people in writing and to publish their stories, and finally we listened to music written and performed by a coming young woman. I love this kind of events with a mixture of subjects and arts gathering on a stage. The blip shows a panorama of the small stage and the house orchestra, two musicians. The place was packed, which means thirty people. Next month, I'm one of the guests to perform. That will be a challenge.