The Highway In The Rain

Today, the drive south was though gently rolling countryside, starting with country roads usually with a cycle track alongside it, and then the two-lane autobahn.

The long drive was well worth it for the gig in Wegendorf Church. The church was built in the thirteenth century and has lovely acoustics. We recorded one video from the organ loft.

Click here or on the picture to see Ray perform Brave Wolf.

A tree-lined country road, typical of this region.

You can just see the cycle track alongside the road and the line of wind turbines in the far distance.

There has been a huge investment in wind turbines in this part of Germany.

A model of the village church in Wegendorf

Tonight’s show was in the village church in Wegendorf, a small town jut north east of Berlin. Ray’s connection with Wegendorf comes from when he took a taxi in Berlin in 2013, got chatting to the driver and discovered that they had a lot in common. The driver was, and still is, Tom Hirschmüller who lives in Wegendorf. He has arranged a concert for Ray most years since then. Tom is a really interesting person, having grown up in East Berlin he can talk about what it was like before, during and after the wall came down and Germany was unified. Many people moved from the old East to old West Germany but Tom stayed and became one of the first taxi drivers who would take passengers anywhere in Berlin. The taxi drivers from the old West Berlin would not drive into the east.