Greeting from the Mayor and patron of the festival
 Peter VennemeyerAt pentecost 2009 the Greven citizens discovered a new facet of their town. More than a 1000 people from near and far and even from the european neighbouring countries visited the GrevenGrass festival.
They were listening to the music, spent their time in the campground at the Ems river, joined the jam-sessions and really ‘created’ a festival feeling our town did not know until now. The organizing team was overwhelmed by the response. To shorten it: The first GrevenGrass festival was a raving success.The GrevenGrass festival is a very special experience for visitors, musicians and even for the organizing team. I am very glad to see the meadows of the ems revitalized again this year with people and bluegrass-music. Although the festival is just in its second year, it is already a milestone in the Greven calendar of events as well as in the European bluegrass festival calendar.
I am confident, as well as the organizing team, that the reissue of the GrevenGrass 2010 festival will be a great success.
Dear visitors, I wish you have some pleasurable and unforgettable days in Greven!Yours
Peter VennemeyerMayor of Greven and patron of the festival
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 As the name of this duo implies, Bruno van Hoek and Elly Beurskens play their music – straight, clean and simple – from the heart, using their voices and the stringed instruments that are so typical for old-time country and bluegrass: banjo, dobro, mandolin, and guitar.
Both had been very active in different bands for quite a few years, when they met in the Amsterdam folk scene and discovered their mutual passion for honest acoustic music. Between 1986 and 1995 they joined French champion guitar player Jean-Paul Piquard in the successful country-folk trio Reckless Fingers, winning the Dutch Country Music Association’s award for ‘Best Acoustic Group’ for six years in a row, and bringing out two albums (‘The New Land’ in 1988 and ‘Below Sea Level’ in 1992).
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 Three experienced female musicians are now taking the European stages by storm as an all-girls acoustic trio. With their mish-mash of folk, bluegrass, ‘goldies’ and their extremely funny presentation, they succeed in creating an atmosphere that will cheer up even the most deeply depressed. In a tongue-in-cheek way they cover important subjects such as diets, broken hearts, inlaws, tight underwear and gambling addiction. Rumour has it that the government is considering including their music in health insurance.
We welcome Elly Beurskens, an excellent female bluegrass musician, who will be playing for the first time at the GrevenGrass festival.
However, she is not here for the first time. Elly, being on the road as an active member of the European Bluegrass Music Association has been in Greven, when the GrevenGrass association was found. Her experience helped us starting up the GrevenGrass festival. - Thank you!
Beppie Gasman is well known in Greven. She has been here last year at the first GrevenGrass festival playing at the beach with her Band ‘Lazy Tater’. We are happy to see her again on our stage, this time performing in her other band ‘Babes in the Grass’.
Adri Richter: guitar, mandolin, vocals
Beppie Gasman: double bass, vocals
Elly Beurskens: guitar, banjo, vocals
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 ...we are already working at our plans for the 2010 festival. Since about two months the planning group is meeting almost weekly to prepare the next festival.
We are proud to announce that our main sponsors will be with us in 2010. Their future support for the 2010 GrevenGrass Festival makes our planning easier.
The success of the 2009 GrevenGrass festival was a great experience for all of us. It’s a good ‘basement’ for the ‘construction’ of the next festival, we try to keep the GrevenGrass feeling alive.
The GrevenGrass Festival 2010 will take place on Pentecost, 22nd and 23rd of may, 2010. Same town, same location. We meet again in the “Meadows of the river Ems”! - Check your timetable and fix the date!
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