16 July 2011

Palmarès du concours solistes 2011

Our friend Johannes Geworkian Hellman, is a very competent hurdy-gurdy musician but he is never pleased with his playing or his performances.
Therefore it took some time for him to decide whether or not to participate in the competition for hurdy-gurdy's. Finally he did and what happened? He won of course!
Below the announcement of the laureates and after this photos and a video displaying Johannes with his instrument.

Below the video, you find a photo of Rémy Villeneuve, who won the cornemuse-competition.



Here he is in our car, happy to be in France and on his way to Château d'Ars:

In these pictures he is trying different hurdy-gurdy's from different manufacturers:




















As a musician you must also give yourself the chance to romance 'un peu'
In this photo we see a young, charming woman by the name of Cassandre and Johannes.
She is a very competent musician but also skilled in most folk dances.
She is doing research on folk music and she speaks four-five languages:

Below the video displaying Johannes playing for the audience after having won the competition.
The quality is not the best as it's recorded with our iPhone:



René Villeneuve (above),
evidentally talking with his fiancée
as he has such a dreaming look
on his face!

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