A festive finale to commemorate 10 years, celebrate success in the Eurovision Song contest, and look ahead to the future! All in all, three hours of great music!  Urban Trad have been around for ...

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A festive finale to commemorate 10 years, celebrate success in the Eurovision Song contest, and look ahead to the future! All in all, three hours of great music!
 
Urban Trad have been around for 10 years. Now, that is worth celebrating. And, at the same time, a very beautiful period is coming to an end. After 10 years of ‘Traditional 21st Century European Music’ (and that huge Eurovision success with 'Sanomi'), Urban Trad is calling it a day. Yep! The end!
High time, then, to find out more about these musicians’ new projects. It will be a colourful Sunday afternoon , an adieu and a preview, a matinee with Urban Trad and its many fresh offshoots:
Soetkin Collier presents her new CD, made with fellow band members Sophie Cavez, Didier Francois and Tom Theuns.
Dirk Naessens plays in Carmine, a brilliant new group; 'Simple Song', the first single from their debut album, was a regular on Radio 1.  
And then, of course, there is Yves Barbieux and his new, acoustic Polk project, which mixes festive Celtic music with pop tunes from recent decades – with references to Paul Simon, Stromae, The Verve, OMD, The Cure and many others. The band includes Jonathan De Neck (diatonic accordion), Baptiste Argouarc'h (fiddle), Jeroen Geerinck (guitar) and Yves Barbieux (whistles and bagpipes). So there you have it: Polk is a natural contraction of pop and folk!
 
Also expected to join Urban Trad on stage are a few merry friends such as Didier Laloy, N’Faly Kouyate...
 
It’s been great, time to party! (and the exact date will follow soon on the AB site).

Polk - Stromanarama from focus live on Vimeo.