Ricardo Volkert & Friends: Songs of Love & Peace

...because they’re more relevant than ever before, and because there’s always a need for love and peace.

We sing Songs of Love & Peace out of passion and conviction, out of enthusiasm and joy…

Songs of Love & Peace are songs that have traveled the world, songs we’ve been singing for what seems like “forever,” each on our own… and together with others…

Songs we love, written by songwriters for their times—times filled with love and violence, between the Summer of Love and the Vietnam War, between the civil rights movement and Woodstock—these are Songs of Love & Peace.

Songs by Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Pete Seeger, Simon & Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Kris Kristofferson… These new interpretations of old songs celebrate the feeling of a new beginning for humanity—a peaceful coexistence and mutual support—which becomes downright existential in times of increasing self-centeredness.

Classics from yesterday—shockingly (still/once again) relevant to our times today: war, arms buildup, the climate crisis, populism, the crisis of democracy, a lack of solidarity, anti-Semitism... We sing them as a counterpoint, so that the world sounds more like peace and shared global responsibility. After all: What’s so funny about Peace, Love, and Understanding? (Nick Lowe, 1974)

Featuring: Elke Brüsch (vocals), Dirk Trageser (vocals/percussion), Ricardo Volkert (guitar/vocals), Bernhard Seidel (double bass/vocals), Alexander Rudyk (violin) 

An event presented by Pasinger Fabrik GmbH