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welcome to the official Bernie's Lounge website.
BERNIE'S LOUNGE:
AMSTERDAM WORLD GROOVES
Close
your eyes and imagine yourself at the carnival in Rio, a marketplace
in Dakar, a busy street in Havana, a bar in Barcelona or a freaky
party in
Amsterdam. Open your eyes again, and there is Bernie’s
Lounge!
Bernie's Lounge is a 9 piece band with members from all
over the world, based in Amsterdam. Top class musiciansspecialized
in a unique blend of Afrobeat,
Latin, funk, samba and hiphop.
Singer
Susana Raya and singer / saxophonist David Beukers know how the work
the crowd.
Backed up by a dazzling rythm section and sparking horns
they'll make sure you will dance until the last note has faded.
Bernie’s Lounge has played numerous festivals like
Lowlands, Noorderslag, Amsterdam Dance Event and toured in France,
Spain, Italy,Ireland,Belgium,
Turkey, Guatemala, Jordan and
Brazil.
They played as an opener for the Buena
Vista Social Club concerts and
performed with guest musicians like trumpet player Roy
Paci
( Aretuska / Banda Ionica) and afrobeat legend keyboard player Dele
Sosimi (Fela Kuti), who are also
appearing at their most recent cd RED mango.
This was a release by
PIAS. At the
releaseparty the Melkweg in Amsterdam was packed. In 2010 a new album
with new singer Susana Raya, rising star in
Europe, will be
released.
"Theirs
is the music of sunshine and siestas, of leisurely, wine soaked meals
preceiding wild hot nights. SKOPE
magazine
SUSANA RAYA
from Cordoba Spain, joined the band. Please come and check out BL
and Susana Raya during one
of our shows the coming time! Here you see
her in Jordan, on tour with Bernie's... Although sandy, we had a great
time there.
Bookings:
Four
to the Floor
Jantien
Plooij
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+31206238550
+31618403805
www.fourtothefloor.nl
Line
up:
Susana
Raya - vocals
David Beukers - tenorsax, vocals
Mark Tuinstra -
guitar
Dominique Brackeva - trombone
Janfie van Strien –
alto / baritone sax
Heiko Ebner - trumpet
Jasper de Beer -
bass
Jasper Goedman - percussion
Mark de Jong - drums
Marc
Schots – sound
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