For this sold out concert an exchange desk will be opened. The purpose is to bring people with spare tickets and people who are looking for tickets in contact with each other. So if you want to get rid of tickets of on the contrary are looking for tickets, do not sell and buy on the street, but check with the exchange desk between 7pm and 8pm.

Rapture, emotion, purification... such honest keywords spring to mind when hearing mention of this American singers' name. It was May 2002 ago that she appeared before a full AB. Compelling and engaging (and funny)! Now finally returning with a new (double!) CD: 'Leave Your Sleep'.

You know this distinctive voice from 10,000 Maniacs, especially in the 80's? Well, after that Natalie Merchant decided to continue under her own name. With an important turning point in 2003: the CD 'The House Carpenter's Daughter', which she released herself and exquisitely idiosyncratically based upon existing poems and lyrics.

Apparently there's more of the same now on 'Leave Your Sleep', meanwhile here with four new songs in avant-première already, during a brilliant and illuminating piece of BBC TV.

Also nice to hear then that, all together, more than 100 musicians have contributed to the new CD. While Natalie Merchant has also been able to work with Mavis Staples, R.E.M., The Chieftains, Dr. John, Billy Bragg, Booker T. & The MG's, Yunchen Lhamo ...