Jever Song Night – mit Juhana Iivonen (Finnland), Johnny Campbell (UK) und Lisa Ploeger (NL)

In the organizer's words:

Jever Song Night 07/2025, this time with:

Juhana Iivonen (Finland), Johnny Campbell (UK) and Lisa Ploeger (NL)

Lisa Ploeger
Raw country pop and stories that come from the heart. That's what Lisa Ploeger's music is all about.
The musician from Drehnte has already played her roots music at the Drehnte Liberation Festival, Eurosonic Noorderslag and Paradiso Amsterdam.
In addition, she toured with the Popronde in 2022 as one of the most booked acts and was the opening act for Tim Knol and the North Netherlands Orchestra.
On Sep 27, 2024 she released her second EP "We're All Just Human Beings". It is an EP that shows that she has grown up.
Her singles "I Blame Myself", "I Won't Back Down" and "Picasso & Van Gogh" already showed that Lisa has the talent. The EP features musicians such as Ivo Severijns, Rowdy Prins, Bram Hakkens and Jonas Pap.

Johnny Campbell successfully emerged on the British folk scene in 2015 as an interpreter of the music of northern England and stood out in particular for his strong original compositions. His latest CD From Hull & Halifax & Hell (2020) took him to the Faroe Islands for live recordings, where musical instruments first appeared in the nineteenth century. So it may well be that Northern English music was recorded there for the very first time during the live sessions. On tour in the UK and Europe, Johnny Campbell always finds time to write articles for well-known music magazines and has also been invited on stage at well-known festivals such as the Belladrum Festival and Tradfest Edinburgh.

" Juhana Iivonen comes from Finland and somehow his music sounds the same: a bit melancholic, a bit like a lonely hut in the forest. But also like the incomparable beauty of the Finnish landscape"
Juhana Iivonen's specialty is unhurried, quiet songs with a lot of feeling and beautiful, often plucked guitar accompaniment. He started his set with a song in his mother tongue "En Milloinkaan" (Never will I). His latest production is the song "Moonlight" with a wonderful fingerpicking guitar accompaniment, charming key changes and chromatic chord sequences. Juhana's wonderful, full, voluminous bass voice really came into its own on "This Corner Must Be Strange" - the audience thanked him with concentrated silence and lots of applause. "Native One" is Juhana's dedication to the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall - thank you very much for so much empathy! And he also has a sense of humor: he told us that he was once asked at a concert in Münster whether he had anything cheerful in his repertoire (funny, in Münsterland of all places!). Juhana's answer to the question was three songs about sunshine and brightness. "Dream We Lived", "Season's Sun" and "Paradise" are beautiful, but also more of the contemplative variety. "Again" also has something to do with the sun, but it only shines after it has rained properly. As an encore, he gave the audience the song "Some Good Time". Lots of applause for Juhana. Anyone who has bought his CDs will be rewarded with wonderful music for quiet evenings by candlelight. John Harrison summed it up in one sentence at the end: "You are a wonderful island of tranquility".

seated, free choice of seats

Price information:

Advance booking: € 12.00 Box Office: € 15.00 | € 7.00