Singer Lisa Harms from Emmer-Compascuum awaits an exciting weekend. On Saturday she will participate in the Suns Europe festival, or the festival for European minority languages, in Italy.
Harms is thus following in the footsteps of, among others, Isa Zwart and Leon Moorman, who won the audience award during an earlier edition of this festival. She will perform the song at Suns Europe Until the sun pours outwith which she won the Drèents Liedtiesfestival in May.
“It is very exciting, but also super fun. Above all, I want to enjoy it, I let it all happen to me,” Harms looks ahead to the international event in Udine. “I’m not going to change anything or do anything special. I’m just doing my own thing.”
At the Suns Europe Festival she will face artists who sing in Catalan or Welsh, for example. Harms represents Low Saxon. “To be honest, I have no idea who my competitors are. But I didn’t have that at the Drèents Liedtiesfestival either and it turned out well.”
“It would be nice if I won again this time, but it is also about the experience,” emphasizes Harms, who lives in Ter Apel. “Because it is the first time that I am on an international stage.”
Next night the Drenthe woman will leave for Italy with her band. “I get up at 1:45 am and get in the car at 2:30 am. The flight to Italy leaves at 7:00 am and I arrive there at 9:00 am.”