"The day of the Lifesong"

Here in Nijmegen we are lucky enough to be able to celebrate Mothers' Day with a bizarre, only in NL music festival - De dag van het Levenslied.

I can only describe it as a totally tongue in cheek Eurovision-style music festival. Basically every act (all 28 of them yesterday!) dresses in bizarre outfits, looking like everything from glam rock revival bands to 1960s girl bands. The music is generally tragic, tear jerking schmaltz, with the singers bemoaning their lot ie their girlfriend has just left them, they have become an alcoholic, they will never find love again etc etc The songs are mostly covers of tried and true old time favourites so EVERYONE knows ALL the words and loudly sings along :-))

See pictures below to get a bit of an idea.

Alli xxx