Program – OGBL

The 1 May 2024 programme

neimënster, Lux-Grund

Concerts

10:45 & 11:30 Big Music Band

Swing, Rock, Latin
10:45 – 11:00
11:30 – 11:45
Parvis

Founded by 3 musicians, Big Music Band 2001 is today a classic big band formation and also has a combo formation with 14 musicians. The program includes popular swing, rock and Latin tunes.
11:45 - 12:00 Dany le Loup & DJ Headmasta

Rap
11:45 – 12:00
Parvis

Luxembourg rapper Dany le Loup has won the “La musique, c’est nous” competition organized by the OGBL in collaboration with the “Fédération luxembourgeoise des auteurs et compositeurs” (FLAC). His song “Le chant des travailleurs” makes you want to claim your rights.

The track is produced by his old sidekick MC Headmasta, who Dany knows from his punk music days with the band Los Duenos (2010-18), which enjoyed some national and international success. Since 2018, Dany le Loup has released two albums with rapper Bristol Drapes before releasing his own album La tête qui explose in early 2023.

Spotify
12:15 - 13:00 De la Mancha

Rock
12:15 – 13:00
Parvis

De la Mancha is a rock band based in Luxemburg and formed in 2011.The original line-up was Marc “Frisko” Frischkorn (guitar), Jos Seil (guitar), Paul Lebrun (bass), Paul Neuen (drums) and Pol Dechmann (vocals). After Pol Lebrun’s sudden disappearance in 2014, Gilles Loes joined the band as new bass player. Pol Neuen left the band in 2018 to leave space for Konni Trost on drums. Gilles left the band in 2019 and was replaced by Dan Thurmes. The band’s original name, “Sacred numbers” was changed in 2014 to “De la Mancha” as a reminiscence to Cervantes famous literary hero “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, fighting the windmills. In remembrance of their lost bass player the band kept this name but put it into the shorter form of “dLm” in 2020.
13:30 - 14:15 Bantou Kingz

13:30 – 14:15
Parvis

Three young men from the Democratic Republic of Congo with a love for black American music, Congolese rumba and French chanson launched the “Bantou Kingz” project.

“Bantou” (“bantu” means “human” in Kikongo) refers to the people who speak Bantu languages (about 450 languages) on the African continent, from Cameroon to the Comoros and from Sudan to South Africa.

Bantou Kingz is a multifaceted musical adventure, a meeting between the rhythms of the African Mother Earth and the sounds of the country where they have chosen to live, mixing Western influences (RnB, jazz, French variety, blues, gospel, soul) and African sounds (Congolese rumba, ndombolo, afrobeats…). The Bantou Kingz pay tribute to the culture each of us carries with him, and the one we embrace when we arrive in a new place.
14:45 - 15:30 One Soul Journey

singer-songwriter
14:45 – 15:30
Parvis

The One Soul Journey is a solo project by singer-songwriter Randy Melton that pays homage to U.S. black music culture spanning the last 50+ years.Supported by Bojan Perko, OSJ is a theme based experience covering Jazz, Soul, Funk, Gospel and R&B, that gives the audience a chance to participate in the ultimate flashback in time.
16:00 - 16:45 Nicola Són

Latin Samba, Groove & Pop
16:00 – 16:45
Parvis

Nicola Són is considered in Brazil and undoubtedly as well in France as the most Brazilian of the French singers. He offers a new repertoire of Latin and pop songs mixed with samba chanson and Brazilian groove.

His new album Pas de Panique was released on September 15, 2023.
17:15 - 18:00 Fred Barreto Group

Rock
17:15 – 18:00
Parvis

The furious Brazilian guitarist, Fred Barreto, is one of a kind! He belongs to those musicians who are recognizable straight away from the first notes played. His huge sound doesn’t leave the audience indifferent. Barreto means serious when it comes to play solid Rock or raw Blues and there’s no need to try finding similarities with other guitar players: Fred Barreto is an accomplished guitarist and does his own “thing” with great talent, virtuosity and soul.

Teaming up with Nadja Prange on the organ, Daniel Fastro on bass, and Michael Stein on drums, they unite to form the Fred Barreto Group, affectionately known as FBG.

This passionate Luxembourgish Blues Rock Quartet blends the enduring vigor of Rock music with the soul-stirring essence of Blues, which can be felt and seen especially during their live performances.

Intermission Music

14:15 - 16:45 Les Lutins

14:15 & 15:30 & 16:45
En déambulation

They have just just out of their forest: the Argonne forest. These elves, with their well-defined characters, take you into their world… Led by their patriarch, they retrace the footsteps of their ancestors. As life takes them through its twists and turns, they search for their source of energy. Will they find it?

By: Cie Cirque Asymétrik

Pictures: Sébastien Le Couster

Shows for young and old

15:30 - 16:50 Evidences inconnues

Show, ages 12 and up
15:30
Salle Robert Krieps

In “Évidences inconnues”, Kurt Demey and Joris Vanvinckenroye try to defy chance, in order to catch the fleeting glimmer that shows its existence. The audience is plunged into a mix of genres, combining theater, music and mentalism, where the accumulation of coincidences becomes pure magic. “The funny duo surprises and amazes and […] plunges the audience into a moment out of time. The impossible becomes possible. And always incredible.” Nathalie Simon, Le Figaro – February 23, 2019.

Production: CIE Rode Boom / Distribution: Script, conception, interpretation, mentalism and scenography: Kurt Demey / Concept, music and interpretation: Joris Vanvinckenroye / Dramaturgy: Frederika Del Nero / Performers (alternating): Benjamin Mouchette, Frederika Del Nero, Cédric Coomans, Peter Michel / Assistant director: Cédric Orain / Lighting design: Janneke Donkersloot / Lighting direction: Fabien Gruau / Construction: Jeronimo Garcia / Distribution: AY-ROOP

Special thanks to Satya Roosens, Peter Michel, Jan Verschoren and Fabien Gruau.
14:00 & 16:00 Tri2pattes : Fir Laachen, dréckt 3

Tri2pattes: Fir Laachen, dréckt 3
Comedy in luxemburgish
14:00 & 16:00
Salle José Ensch

New program by Tri2pattes, the only comedy ensemble in Luxembourg. On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, Tri2pattes presents a special anniversary comedy program, a mixture of new material and a best of.

A day without laughter should be forbidden! And yet laughing is not a matter of course for everyone! Stress, lack of motivation, annoyance, grumpiness and sometimes even anger are all part of our daily lives, but none of this really helps! We could even laugh at our own stupidity if we didn’t take ourselves so seriously! And with this attitude, a look in the mirror could open up a whole new perspective for some of us! What fun that could be!

This is the leitmotif and the main source of inspiration for many funny sketches, songs, dances, pantomime and clowning in the new comedy program by Tri2pattes. Humor is the name of the game here. Laughter is not just an option even for those who may find it difficult! Come and see for yourself.
14:00 & 16:00 Une journée à Takaledougou

14:00 & 16:00
Salle Edmond Dune

From waking up in the morning to preparing meals, having a nap, and working in the fields, “Une journée à Takaledougou” is a musical evocation of daily life in a village on the banks of the Comoé River in southwestern Burkina Faso. The combination of sounds collected on location, revisited traditional Mandingo sounds, and ambient electro immerses us in this small West African village, where the griots use their voices to punctuate the small and large events in the lives of its inhabitants.

Production: Du Vent dans les Ouïes / Distribution: Gurvan Loudoux (composer, musician), Amadou Diao (composer, musician and performer), David Arnassalom (lighting director)
14:45 & 16:30 Jonn Happi

One man circus
14:45 & 16:30
Garden, in case of rain: Salle Michel Delvaux

With a lot of humor and elegance, Jonn Happi leads his charming audience into a world of magic, juggling and improvisation.

Workshops

Expositions

10:00 - 18:00 Lucien Wercollier

Permanent Exposition
10h – 18h
Déambulatoire

Stone, bronze, marble, alabaster, glass, the work of Lucien Wercollier is embedded in these various materials that he will discover in each turn and will never leave. A work to be (re)discovered at the Abbey of Neumünster where the private collection of the Wercollier family is reinstalled in the “Déambulastoire” of the Abbey, in a scenography specially designed for the place. Although Wercollier‘s sculptures are present in numerous collections and public museums in Luxembourg and abroad (Musée d‘Art Moderne in Paris, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Olympic Sculptures Parc in Seoul, Palais de l‘Europe in Strasbourg…), this permanent exhibition is the only one that documents the life and work of one of the great artists of the 20th century.

Born in 1908, Lucien Wercollier died in 2002, at the age of 94. Between these two dates, the years of studies in Brussels and Paris, the discovery of Maillol, Brancusi and Arp, but also the years of war, the arrest and the incarceration in the Grund prison then the deportation in Germany and in Silesia, will make of a talented sculptor, an exceptional artist, „in search of the most total agreement between lines, structures, forms and signification, an increasingly deep and perfect agreement“ (G. Wagner).
10:00 - 18:00 The Waiting Rooms | Stéphane Roy

Exposition
10h – 18h
Cloître Lucien Wercollier

The Waiting Rooms, a new project by the artist Stéphane Roy, is an evolving cycle of environments that use the codes of the waiting room to explore its concept, functionality, rules and possible deviations, offering a multitude of different experiences over time. A sanctuary for encounters, an exploration of forms of well-being, a laboratory of desire and disobedience, or a social playground that invites the participation of individuals and communities.