Monday 18th October Piano bar: Martin Salemi, Café Bonnefooi, Steenstraat 8, 1000 Brussels at 22:00. This week’s free Bonnefooi piano bar is with Martin Salemi. Jazz: Bart De Nolf (contrabas), Bruno Castellucci (drums), Michael Blass (piano), Master Session, Sounds Jazz Club, Tulpstraat 28, 1050 Ixelles at 22:00. These guys are back at Sounds this Monday […]
It’s not always easy to know what’s going on in the Brussels’ cultural scene. While there are good search engines available online (Uit in Brussel, for example – although you do have to be able to get by in Dutch), it can be difficult to find out about upcoming events unless you already know what […]
Monday 11th October Mozart String Quartet KV 421. Landini String Quartet, Town Hall, Grote Markt, 1000 Brussels at 20:00. A lovely dark D minor quartet. Schumann’s 4th Symphony and Chopin’s 2nd Piano Concerto. Symphony Orchestra of Flanders, BOZAR, Rue Ravenstein 23, 1000 Brussels at 20:00. Symphonic music has to be experienced live… Song recital: Berg, […]
The summer was good; the summer was long (but not long enough). Now time to pick up the projects and run. (Run on, that is, not run away, of course.) A whole new path is opening up for me. I’m excited but apprehensive; confident yet vulnerable. We shall see – watch this space…
A quick word in praise of the “Site du Grand-Hornu” in Mons. It was buit as an industrial mining complex in the early 19th century, and comprised workshops, offices, as well as housing both for the workers and the administrators. In its hey-day, the Grand-Hornu was producing nearly 120,000 tons a year and employing nearly […]
