Heijmans & Vrienten
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What happens when cabaret meets the deep South of America? In Waiting for Death, Maarten Heijmans and Xander Vrienten explore this question. Together they perform new songs and cabaret classics, somewhere between the Jordaan and the Mississippi.
How would Maarten van Roozendaal have sounded if he'd been born in New Orleans? Or Boudewijn de Groot in Nashville? What if Shaffy had washed up in Memphis instead of Amsterdam? Or the other way around: if Townes van Zandt's family had never left the Zaanstreek? And imagine the sound of Dr. John, but on Marken.
In short: what happens when cabaret meets the deep south of America?
Perhaps the worlds of folk, blues and cabaret are closer together than you might think. Loss, longing and the small tragedies of life. Stories about ordinary people and their fate. We more often have a piano, they prefer a guitar. But always armed with sharp wit and a generous dose of irony.
