The Cuby+Blizzards Museum in Grolloo starts this weekend with a new exhibition. After a successful exhibition about the life of lead singer Harry Muskee, the museum now focuses on his legacy with the exhibition Legacy Lives.
“Look, someone just walked in here a while ago.” Beaming, Sjoerd Looijenga points to an open black leather suitcase that has been placed on Muskee’s old box bed. “Harry’s real suitcase that he often carried with him. Was just at someone’s house. Even his agenda was still in it!”
According to Looijenga, all sorts of people are increasingly knocking on the door of the museum in Muskee’s old farmhouse with items from the glory days of Cuby + Blizzards. They are fans, but also regularly relatives who have cleared out the attic of their loved ones.
“Some put it on Marktplaats to earn something from it, but fortunately many people also bring it to us. This morning there was another person on the sidewalk with a bag full of stuff. We can then sort that out and show it in the museum .”
According to Looijenga, it is one of the examples that show how committed people are at Cuby+Blizzards. This also applies to a new generation of blues musicians, who are put in the spotlight in the new exhibition. Because despite the fact that Harry Muskee has been dead for almost twelve years, the music that ‘Cuby’ made is still very much alive.
One of the new parts of the exhibition is a showcase with posters of musicians and bands who continue to play the music of C+B. For example, there are notes from the Cuby cover band Grollo (“Yes with one ‘o’!”) and an announcement of the theater show with the musical company of Erwin Java and Erwin Nyhoff.
In addition to Muskee’s old ‘fire room’, the museum has set up a special blues cinema, where the music of a new generation of blues musicians can be heard. “And people can watch documentaries about Cuby+Blizzards. I can already see it in my mind: with popcorn, a drink and blues.”
The exhibition Legacy Lives can be visited from 30 April on Sundays between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.