... Review ...


10 YEARS OF EWOB: "This remarkable collection adds a significant new chapter to bluegrass history, and a wealth of excellent music in many styles."
- Hilary Bean, Roots & Sprouts, Germany

EWOB FESTIVAL 2009 FanMail FROM THE Musicians

We get the nicest letters from musicians who played at the EWOB Festival, and with their permission, we'd enjoy sharing their comments with you.

Veit Doehler wrote:

Hello everybody from EWOB!

What a fantastic weekend that was! Not only that Maike fell in love with Holland and I hardly could get her out of there again, no, the whole event was just perfect. Everything was organized so well!

As a band we really felt that people (especially Pieter with his perfect sound) cared for us, the MC announced us nicely and for the extra gigs the bus-shuttle system worked fine. What could we wish more!

And as part of the audience we were overwhelmed by the great variety of music that was offered - far more than we had expected. Many styles, many European countries, many performers and all that at a high musical level.

And as jammers we had plenty of opportunities to jam and when we didn't jam, we could get rid of the instruments without being scared to death that they might be stolen.

And finally as customers we had the chance to spent thousands of Euros for excellent instruments, some Euros for a gigantic choice of records or just one Euro for a flatpick.

The whole concept - at least as I understood it - is just great. Low cost for the audience, a big variety of music centered around Bluegrass, non commercial, with European Bands and very FEW American performers.

And last but not least the presentation in the WWW was also excellent!

It was such a big event and you did so well (and I know how much work that means...;-)

Keep on doing it! 

Veit Doehler, Dawgmatic
Hamburg, Germany

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Petr Zizka wrote:

I had no opportunity to say good-bye today so let me [tell] you that we were very satisfied with EWOB 2009 in Voorthuizen, we spent great time, met famous musicians and many good friends, so thank you very much for the organisation and friendly atmosphere there. Give this my thanks to all your colleque and the festival crew, please. We do hope to meet you all next year again.

Best wishes,

Petr Zizka, Brzdari
Czech Republic

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