Kiwi Entertainment, German Style
This is just another short extract of an enjoyable time and entertainment from one of my many overseas holidays.
During a visit to Germany and meeting up with some of my many friends this was one time that my sister Nancy and B.I.L. John happen to be in the same city of Worms as I was and we were all invited to dinner to the home of our mutual friends, Jutta and Andrea.
A superb dinner of various German dishes along with a wonderful array of tasty cheeses and dips were enjoyed and most important a selection of some of the countries finest wines.
There were lots of laughter and stories of old times fired by generous quantities of red wine, soon the music started along with one of our friends strumming on a guitar for good measure, the carpet was rolled up and the dancing began, only wished it stayed at that level but the liquid beverage stirred up a strong feeling of homesickness for my sister and I. After finding a suitable C.D. of some New Zealand favourites including some well known Maori tunes we were soon holding the floor to ransom with some hilarious attempts at singing and harmonizing with the beautiful sweet voices of some famous Maori entertainers. Surprisingly we remembered much of the beautiful language and maybe added our own flavour when certain words were forgotten, including the old favourites Haere Ra (farewell), Kia Ora, (welcome) and a few action songs, every now and then breaking in with a few bars of “Ten Guitars” seem to create an abundance of applause.
These amazing blasts from our past brought on a continuous application for encores, which we so gladly obliged, thinking all the time that we were performing some wild entertainment for our wonderful German friends.
Finally, exhausted and hoarse it was time to get back to some nice slow music to dance the night away with.
Unknown to us our so called friend Jutta was silently and painstakingly filming the whole scenario, and was delighted in sending us a video copy for our perusal, it was an amazing shock hearing our voices in full bloom sending out a frightening demonstration of song that would wake anyone who was unfortunate to be in a state of an induced coma.
This specimen of our combined talent is resurrected every now and then as entertainment for visitors who are ever so polite as not to remark on such an outrage of attempts to sabotage some of New Zealand’s most beautiful native music.
Payback time is still in keeping, many good ideas are still taking up a small part of my memory bank, hopefully to repay our friends for their hosting and editing of what could one day be a best seller
Memories are so precious.
Jumbo
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