LIFESTYLE
18 essential live events
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Like a Jazz Machine
Festival season is well and truly under way in April and May, with the increasingly popular Food For Your Senses celebrated over three days, the new Like A Jazz Machine event bringing top musicians to Dudelange and the Printemps Musical series of concerts still in full swing. Text by Duncan Roberts 01
The second edition of the opderschmelz jazz festival features 15 concerts in four days. The bill includes international jazz stars such as sax players Bill Evans (here with guitarist Mike Stern) and Ravi Coltrane (photo, the son of the legendary John Coltrane) as well as newcomers like Grace Kelly and local artists Pascal Schumacher (with Sylvain Rifflet), Greg Lamy and Ernie Hammes. May 9 to 12, opderschmelz, www.opderschmelz.lu 03
Villagers Heralded by some as a natural successor to Nick Drake, Conor O’Brien has won acclaim for his first two albums, 2010’s Mercury Prize nominated Becoming a Jackal and new release {Awayland}. O’Brien’s lyrics have been praised for their “dazzling imagery” (Dave Simpson in The Guardian) but the boy also clearly knows how to write a tune, as the wonderful pop melody of ‘Nothing Arrived’ indicates. April 27, Exit07 (CarréRotondes), www.rotondes.lu 04
Food For Your Senses
Organic growth
Headhunters
Proving that organic growth results in healthy and vibrant produce, the annual Food For Your Senses is now a sumptuous three-day feast of music. Featuring international and local acts, the festival has grown steadily since its inception as a party with live music for local youth in the basement of the primary school in Tetange in 2002. That event proved so popular it was repeated until 2006, when the organisers launched the first official Food For Your Senses festival. Now the festival is spread over three days and three stages and also includes a “Sensarea” side-show that includes a garden, theatre and poetry performances, an art exhibition, workshops and massages. The festival’s musical programme is truly eclectic and this year’s line-up of acts includes British indie-folk outfit Dry the River (photo), American home-recording whizzkid XXYYXX, German hip-hop artist Marteria and French hardcore band Shoot The Girl First. Local acts on the bill include folk-pop band Seed to Tree, rock outfit Versus You and hip-hop outfit De Läb. May 17 to 19, venue to be announced, www.ffys.eu
Some 40 years after being assembled to play on Herbie Hancock’s hugely influential 1973 jazz-fusion album, the reformed The Headhunters are still touring. The group attracted R&B and rock fans and defined the way funk and jazz could work together. Artists such as Snoop Dogg and George Clinton have declared their admiration and contributed to 2011 album Platinum. April 28, den Atelier, www.printempsmusical.lu
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