Frenchy’s Fracas

Second gig that evening.. A nice follow-up to Terry Callier ’s show earlier that evening!

General Info
Artist: Fertile Ground
Location: Paradiso, Amsterdam
When: 23 March 2007

Who?
Well, this time Hieronymus Fox was totally clueless, he never heard of these guys. So this time I wasn’t the only ignoramus, heheh..

The Show
After a great soul and blues gig, this concert by Fertile Ground was a nice switch. A master behind the keyboards, a solid drummer, trumpet player and sax man. And a strong and beautiful Black Woman on vocals: a powerhouse!
These guys played a powerful set for about an hour and the crowd in the smaller venue went wild. Although sometimes, they did tend to get a bit to overeager in showing their prowess, but that wasn’t too annoying.

Conclusion
Very nice show, these guys are an act that’s worth watching and listening to. Hope to see them play live again soon.

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First things first..
I went to Amsterdam to see just one show, but I got terribly lucky and got to enjoy two great performances!
The second show at Paradiso was a Baltimore band called Fertile Ground and after that, the guys from Kindred Spirits set up a weird and interesting DJ set which also was a nice surprise. So, the whole evening was quite nice, I guess

General Info
Artist: Terry Callier
Location: Paradiso, Amsterdam
When: 23 March 2007

Who?
Well, read about this here and to be honest, I didn’t know a lot about this artist: I just got dragged along by Hieronymus Fox. He kinda usually gets these things right in one try.. Damn his heart, heheh..

The Show
Seasoned musicians.. These guys get on stage and you immediately know that you’re gonna get entertained by a class act. These guys did need some time to warm up and standing in the back with a way too noisy crowd wasn’t helping either. But during the second half of the show we moved a bit more to the middle of the crowd and that made quite a difference. Mister Calliers sweet and powerful vocal chords mixed beautifully with the well-balanced band of music lovers.

Conclusion
Didn’t know exactly what to expect, but the love and caring mister Callier and the band showed for their music shone through and that was a great experience. You know, that week, the Rolling Stones announced they’d be revisiting Holland this year for another concert: big effing deal - it’s an embarrassing thing to see those oldies make a fool of themselves.
What I saw this evening were musicians with true heartfelt love for their music: these weren’t oldies, these were Grand Old Men.

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