CITY TRIPPIN’ 2.0: Jean Koning + Jacob Passander + Joke Kaviaar

Saturday, May 27, start 20:30, free entrance

An evening by and with musician, author and actor Jean Koning.

JEAN KONING
“Ultimately they’re all songs,” thought Sinner-Songwriter (no spelling mistake) Jean Koning, when he made the first set list for his City Trippin’ 2.0 tour. Songs with a beginning, an end, and a chord progression. Hard as he tried the past 25+ years to drown his songs in noise, experiment and screaming, they are still songs. And now he just brings his voice and an acoustic guitar.

But the passion with which he performs them is still there. Koning treats every concert as if it is both his first and his last. Because Koning is a Sinner-Songwriter (still no spelling mistake) that employs his guitar, voice, some screaming and mild percussion to bring exactly those melodies that uncover the diseases of the 21st century.

And all he wants is to sounds like something you’ve never heard, while being busy sounding as something you hear everyday.

A punk-symphonist, an evengalist for excentricity, too naughty to find a decent job like his father, grandfather, cousin and uncle. He left in 1990 for a fight with the devil, on his terrain: the world of Punk ‘n’ Roll. And he is still fighting that fight.

He sings stories about long diseases, using Viagra, beautiful sunrises in New York City, post-apocalyptic dance parties and horse racing. Like the book of Grimm, only in a strange language with many of the pages glued together.

In the end, Jean Koning simply is the sound of a man that lost all grip on reality.

JACOB PASSANDER
Passander, transition artist, storyteller, sensitive soul, but above all a poet. A poet that also writes poems on the spot, sometimes one on one, walking around on parties, writing poems for people that hit the mark after a short conversation. He is also the unofficial city poet of Zaanstreek. He feels that poetry should grind, challenge, catch you unawares. It should grab you by the throat, not because it is so literary, but because it scratches the scabs from you soul.

JOKE KAVIAAR
Joke Kaviaar is a poet, performer, singer, activist, writer, illustrator. In December she published a book of poems called Vuile wapens schone handen (Dirty weapons clean hands).

The poems and drawings spring from her activism against Dutch and Europeans migration policies. To her, writing, publishing and reading these poems is a way of showing what’s being kept hidden, and to awaken the spirit of resistance that lives in each one of us. Every word a spark!