Avalanche Quartet - Livestream 2nd of May

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Avalanche Quartet - Livestream 2nd of May

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MAY 2, 2021 AT 19:00h utc+2

Avalanche Quartet – Livestream concert <--- The Avalanche Quartet is a Dutch group renowned for their exquisite versions of the songs of Leonard Cohen. They’ve toured Holland, France, Switzerland and Belgium since 2006 and have released two albums. Henk Hofstede – guitar and vocals Marjolein van der Klauw – guitar and vocals Arwen Linnemann – upright bass Pim Kops – guitar, accordeon, piano.

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I think many of the Cohenites have good memories of them at the LC event in Amsterdam !
Here is a video made by Ken Kurzweil during the Amsterdam Event 2016.

https://kurzweil.smugmug.com/Leonard-Co ... -8fgfpvH/A


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https://youtu.be/vqSv1gVqnJg

1:04 stream of the concert!!!
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Great show, the Avalanche Quartet are one of the best intepreters of his work IMHO
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Nice to hear those songs that were not in the recent tours any more ; travelling lady, the window, you know who i am ...
Henk Hofstede was singing songs he really loved, one can feel that : he was opening his soul, allowing us to feel his own vulnerability.
I hope to see the quartet some day, and say thanks to them for these moments of beauty.
thanks for the link, i could not assist to the concert, when it was "performed live".
... precisely ...
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