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November UK Tour Has Begun
Ray drove down to Eastbourne on Wednesday to play at the Lamb Folk Club, upstairs at The Lamb Inn. The inn was built in the 16th century and has historical features dating back to the 12th. The room was packed for Ray’s show with some sitting on the bar at the back. This was a
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The September Tour
In September 2025, Ray played twelve shows in Denmark and Germany driving some 5047 km, this time driving on his own. He says of the tour: “I made a lot of new friends, catching up with some old friends. I saw a lot of beautiful country too, driving across the Harz mountains several times, the
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The Tour Manager Story
Although Ray continues touring this June, with further shows including two festivals and then another tour in Germany in September, I will not tour with him again until he visits the UK in November 2025. To sign off these tour notes, here is a repeat of a story from the King Winter Tour of Canada
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4 gigs in 4 days
The last four days have been too busy to write a note so this will cover those four days and is written while I wait at Hamburg airport. The first show was a private house concert in Naumburg. There were some 30 people sat in the dining room where Ray played, in the kitchen and
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Naumburg and the Sonnenobservatorium Goseck
As we had a day off, we did some sightseeing. Naumburg has some very impressive medieval architecture but even more impressive, and much simpler, was the circle created nearly 7000 years ago and used for observing the sun and the stars. The picture above is taken from the Sonnenobservatorium Goseck website The site was discovered
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Schloss Goseck
The picture of the castle is taken from their website: www.schlossgoseck.de Ray has played a show in Schloss Goseck most years since 2013. This year he plays there next on Friday 26th September but as we were driving nearby, he arranged for his friend Robert to show us around. It is truly an amazing place.
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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
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Return to the Kornhaus
Today’s drive was just three and a half hours, initially along quiet country roads and through small villages where you have to know to keep your speed down to 50 kph although there is not always a sign saying this. Most of these country roads have a cycle track next to them with a wide,
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Elmshorner Musiknacht
Tonight, Ray played the opening concert for the music night in Elmshorn. For one evening, starting at 18.00 and going on until 22.30, music is found in twenty venues throughout the centre of the city. Following the opening concert, music starts in the other venues at 19.30 where one artist or band will perform two
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Communal House Concert
The first show on this tour is in the dining hall of the Grönne-Eng Eco-Village in Ørestad just outside of Copenhagen. The picture above shows Ray on the roof of the Eco-Village pointing out Copenhagen on the horizon, with the rooftop greenhouse in the background. The EcoVillage is a block of apartments and condominiums with
A Visitor On Europe’s Roads 