Recommendations of the Editorial team
The Canadian songwriter Jerry Leger has developed a special relationship with its German audience over the years. Loyal fans in this country organize his concerts in beautiful places like Rinkerode, Magdeburg or Norderstedt that are not yet bright enough on the pop map. He has also performed twice at our festival on the Baltic Sea, ROLLING STONE Beach. He recorded his current album, “Waves Of Desire”, which was released on the Hamburg label Devil Duck, with the Solingen musicians Suzan Töpfer and Julian Müller and the sound engineer Thomas Haumann in the Maarweg Studios in Cologne.
The concerts he is playing in Germany in May with the drummer of his band The Situation, Kyle Sullivan, and a few guests are a kind of homecoming. A highlight of his tour will probably be the appearance at the Orange Blossom Festival in Beverungen. There he is accompanied by Suzan Töpfer, Julian Müller and Thomas Haumann.
Concert with reading
His guest performance at the Fachwerk in Münster-Gievenbeck will be a very special (early) evening. Because there will be a very special encounter: Editor Maik Brüggemeyer, who has been following Leger’s work for ROLLING STONE for a long time, will be on stage with him. He reads to Leger’s songs from his new novel “As everyone knows, this is nowhere” (Ventil Verlag). It’s a kind of homecoming for him too, because his text takes place in the Westphalian province not far from Münster.
“As everyone knows, this is nowhere” is a melancholic-comic novel about the promises of pop culture and the question of whether it has ever fulfilled them. Fellow writer Jan Brandt (“Against the World”) enthuses: “It’s all so well observed and written, and I could relate to it so well. Rarely has anyone got to the heart of this dichotomy between our rural origins and pop culture influences.”
“I’m really looking forward to this tour,” says Leger. “It’s always nice to be out and about in spring. It gives you this feeling of renewal – it just seems like the perfect time to start a new adventure.”
Jerry Leger on tour:
- May – Wuppertal, Loch (with Suzan Töpfer, Julian Müller and Thomas Haumann)
- May – Münster-Gievenbeck, half-timbered Gievenbeck
- May- Lauenförde, house concert
- May – Albersloh, Fels Social Center
- May – Magdeburg, fire station
- May – Magdeburg, house concert
- May – Norderstedt, Music Star
- May – Raesfeld, Raesfeld Castle
- May – Beverungen, Orange Blossom Festival (with Suzan Töpfer, Julian Müller and Thomas Haumann)
