I was asked if I could do something at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Vereniging Behoud Moerenburg in Tilburg (association to preserve the park). The landscape park is in the spotlight in our city, also because the Tilburg municipality has a controversial...
Here is a report of the Balafon Meeting held on Saturday 4 February 2023 in Tilburg. We worked on two rhythms that day: Térété & Sanji. We also had a live video conversation via a big screen with Youssouf Keita, who gave an introduction to...
Just like last year, we performed with our Balabos group at Convivio Kingsday 2021. Mirjam, Anton and myself have been playing together for a while now and have built up a beautiful repertoire and can tell a nice story. With this we try to give...
In the weekend of 26, 27 and 28 February 2021, a Window-Expo was organized in the St.Anna district in Tilburg under the name Framed Art 013. Artists and other interested residents could do something in or in front of their window on the street side....
On 13 September, Balabos played at Grotto! It was a sunny weekend and in such a case, we are keen to just have a little gig somewhere. Grotto is a small forest café in De Warande, the park forest in Tilburg-West (close to where I...
Just a quick note: the Tuka-Tuka 2020 Report; fun to look back at. Just before the pandemic made everything impossible, we had another great Tuka-Tuka Weekend 2020! It started, of course, with a call. I had only just returned from Burkina Faso and had also...
]There will be a Tuka-Tuka Weekend 2020! Daan and Emma are back in full preparations and promotion has started for their lovely activity. I too have been asked to conduct a workshop again. This time for Balafon and Singing. Sometimes the weekend falls just in...