ON FRIDAY The Beez from Germany performed at the Candelo Town Hall with their show “Don’t Mention the Wall”.
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The performance included songs, stories, short films and slides from the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond.
The Beez are Julischka (bass/voice), Deta and Rob Rayner (accordion/voice, guitar/voice) and Peter D’Elia (dobro, banjo/voice).
From Balkan to bluegrass, polka to punk and Klezmer to cabaret, they told the unadulterated truth about the dramatic post-Wall banana shortage, East German country and western harmonica production and Stasi-assisted sound checks, all from their unique German/Australian/American perspective.
It was a funny and moving account from four musicians unwittingly caught up in one of the most significant events of the 20th Century.
Photos by Peter Smith
