NH’s Culture Club editors come every week with three nightlife tips for the coming week: performances, events or other cultural events in the province that you should not miss. This week the simple, but rich songs of the Amsterdam musician Toverberg, beautiful photos at the Silver Camera exhibition in Hilversum and the French Eurovision diva Barbara Pravi is coming to Haarlem.
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Nightlife tip 1: Toverberg brings songs about life
Lars Kroon makes songs about life under the name Toverberg. On his latest album ‘Tranen in de wind’ he sings everything in the Dutch language for the first time. He’s doing well. “When I hear the English songs now, it feels like a mask. Singing in Dutch brings me closer to who I am,” says Lars.
Lars himself once studied Dutch. A great source of inspiration is Gerard Reve, the writer who managed to turn the everyday into literature. “I think that’s the highest achievable for me,” says Lars.
From 2008 to 2016, Lars was bass player in the successful rock band Go back to the zoo. “I’m very proud of what we did back then and I’m glad I’ve been through all of that, being at festivals, touring, things like that.”
The songs Lars makes now are introverted and simple, they are about life. The song ‘Warm greetings’ is about the transience of life. “It’s a beautiful, sad day,” sings Lars in the song. In the self-filmed clip you see Lars riding a bicycle with his son. “Maybe beautiful things are only beautiful because they are transitory and you know it will pass someday,” says Lars.
The album Tears in the wind by Toverberg is out and can be ordered via the Magic Mountain website. Toverberg will perform in the Fotomuseum on Saturday 4 March during the Rotterdam museum night and can be seen on Thursday 30 March in the Roode Bioscoop in Amsterdam.
Nightlife tip 2: Silver camera exhibition Hilversum
The war in Ukraine, hostage drama in Amsterdam, the asylum crisis in Ter Apel, but also photos from everyday life. The Silver Camera exhibition provides a picture of an eventful year through the eyes of the most talented photographers in the Netherlands. The winners of the Silver Camera, Prize for Storytelling and Paul Peters can be seen in Museum Hilversum together with 215 other award-winning images.
The Silver Camera exhibition can be seen in the Museum Hilversum.
Nightlife tip 3: Eurovision diva Barbara Pravi in Haarlem
The Dutch entry for the Eurovision Song Contest was announced this week. Whether ‘Burning Daylight’ by Mia Nicolai & Dion Cooper will do just as well as ‘Voila’ by French singer Barbara Pravi, we have to wait and see.
Pravi came second in Rotterdam in 2021 with her song. Pravi previously made a sold-out club tour through the Netherlands and now she is back with a theater tour. The music of the chanteuse is firmly rooted in the francophone tradition; she was inspired by vocal greats such as Jacques Brel and Edith Piaf and incorporates these influences into a fresh, contemporary interpretation of the chanson. She also shows her social involvement through her contribution to ‘Debout les femmes’, the official song for the French women’s liberation movement.
On Saturday, March 4, Barbara Pravi will be in the main hall of the Philharmonic in Haarlem.
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