Two concerts in Bad Neustadt: which is a town that was made in the shape of a heart. Stephan Beidermann has a big heart just like the town and he put on the sweetest private party I have ever played. An old barn that belongs to the village is called a Dorfscheuner, and Big Mel posters and the Canadian and German flags decorated the walls! The biggest wood-burning stove I had ever seen was warming the stone and brick building and 60 of his dearest friends. I loved the wooded stage as I could pound it in ‘What’s all the hype/somebody’s baby”! I got a bottle of Meritage from South Africa from Olaf at Stage one? as a welcome and a bouquet of yellow roses from Beidermann as a thank you. I LOVE FLOWERS! I LOVE WINE!
The following day we went to an Aqua land where I got to swim and go on a waterslide and then sauna and steam! At last exercise and real relaxation! Thomas is happy too. (we got AGAIN the next day!) In the afternoon Biedermann took Thomas and a camera man named Hans and me to a close by monastery on a hill which was covered in snow. We ate a warming bean soup with big wiener sausages and a stein of fantastic specially made Monk’s beer (since 1731) and then climbed up through the snow to the three ceremonial crosses. It was about 350 very slippery steps. I loved it!
The show at Stage One was a bit tight. I can’t see the audience because the layout isn’t good for live music, but the mood is! Unfortunately, the merchandise table caught fire and Thomas almost too while I was singing! We lost an acoustic ride t-shirt, my little gifted hand-knit snowmen made (who now look like burnt marshmallows!), a curtain and a blanket. Large buckets of water at high speed put on the fire. If you bought a CD it was no doubt wet…thus special in a way?! I couldn’t see the fire from stage, but we could all smell it! Holy smokes!
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