Boeijen-Hofstede-Vrienten are set to premier their new line-up! Frank Boeijen, Henk (Nits) Hofstede and Henny (Doe Maar) Vrienten is a bit of a mouthful so they won't mind if we call them BHV for short. Three Dutchmen. They may not be tenors but they are major performers. These three delightful artists are already very well-known in their own right and joining forces they are guaranteed to spark off each other brilliantly, doing each other credit. Without any hankering for the past, because Frank and Henk and Henny are still too dynamic to indulge in that kind of behaviour, here is their account of how this exceptional project came into being.

At the entrance of Nijmegen station a man is standing waiting for a car. It is 1 May 1991, the morning after a heavy-going Queen's Birthday in Amsterdam. Everything is still is a bit blurred, while a man in a dark suit steps out of a black car that has just drawn to a halt. The car heads to the outskirts of the town, with Frank Boeijen at the steering wheel and Henk Hofstede sitting next to him. That day Frank and Henk worked on 'Twee Gezichten' (Two faces), a tune from Frank's first solo recording: 'Wilde Bloemen' (Wild Flowers). The recording also features a song Frank wrote with Henny Vrienten to break the ice ('Het IJs') between them. Even before then, back in the 1980s, they kept running into each other: backstage at muddy festivals, under festival tents and kicking their heels during television programmes: Doe Maar, the Frank Boeijen Group and the Nits. It is now 2007, 2008, history has been written and if you walk through Amsterdam every step can tell a story. They are standing in a guitar shop looking with eager eyes at the gleaming and cracked wood, the green lining of the cases, the mother of pearl... Standing there just as they did as youngsters, looking through a shop window at a guitar with a white tape featuring a photo of Elvis. The men are now older than their guitars. what are they going to do...?

TIMING

7pm doors

8pm Boeijen Hofstede Vrienten (part 1)

8:50 pm pauze

9:20 pm Boeijen Hofstede Vrienten (part 2)