ZEA

Next to 3 shows with I'll be playing a solo ZEA show in Canada next week. Looking forward.

Great news. The video for our song Komt ien oan is selected for the New Talents Award by Poetry Film Tage festival in Weimar, Germany. This video was made by filmmaker and cartoonist Guido van Driel. I will put a link to the video in the comments.

"A poem by poet Nelly Sachs is sung in Frysian by the artist ZEA. It deals with refugees and hospitality and is illustrated by means of old postcards , clay figures and toy knights.

Made by filmmaker and cartoonist Guido van Driel, this song is taken from the new album In lichem fol beloften. Released on Makkum Records and subroutine in collab with Explore the North and Popfabryk

The words are from German-Swedish poet Nelly Sachs, who was born to a Jewish family and managed to escape the n**i regime in 1940. Her work on exile and the Holocaust got her the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966.

Arnold de Boer translated her poem Kommt einer von ferne (published in 1946) into Frisian and made music to it. Later translated it into English, you will find that translation in the subtitles."

UK this week!

This wednesday we begin our UK tour .....beginning in London heading North to Birmingham, Glasgow and Manchester and ending in Wiltshire . see you there!!!!

Our venue today yn Warkum