Echo
Echo brings three generations of folk together: a handful of pioneers who shaped the Belgian folk revival in the sixties and seventies, Griff Trio, who went to visit them, and musicians in their twenties from today's folk scene who sat down and played with them.
Those pioneers — Hubert Boone, Herman & Rosita Dewit, Marc Malempré, Alfred Den Ouden and Marc Hauman & Ann Heynen — made sure that bagpipes, accordion and hurdy-gurdy can still be heard today. The encounters were filmed and form the basis of a docu-concert in which documentary and live music flow into each other. A tribute to the pioneers of yesterday, and to the folk of tomorrow.
Griff Trio is an eclectic folk trio that rubs tradition and the avant-garde against each other. With voices, bagpipes and flutes they build a singular world of sound where old melodies and new ideas meet. Griff Trio are Raphaël De Cock (vocals, whistle, uilleann pipes), Rémi Decker (vocals, whistle, pastoral pipes) and Liesbet Marivoet (vocals, flute, cornemuse).
The twenty-somethings in Echo are Laris D'Hose (bass), Pepijn De Pauw (accordion), Tiemen Kreupeling (bodhrán, fiddle, melodeon, bouzouki), Marie Temmerman (vocals, fiddle, piano) and Hannelore Valentin (bagpipes, musette, flute, vocals).
Documentary by Gijs Debraekeleer, Griff Trio & Bert Huysentruyt.
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En waar de ster bleef stille staan
After the success of their tale about Wannes Raps, Reineke Van Hooreweghe and Toon Van Mierlo set out again with the same team — this time with Felix Timmermans. In En waar de ster bleef stille staan (1924), three tramps dressed as the Three Kings go from door to door through the wintry Kempen landscape. What begins as a ruse to get food and a drink becomes a story of poverty, guilt and grace.
Organised by Westelfolk, Merodefestival and Griff Trio.