The first Electric Light Orchestra and Jeff Lynne fan
meeting.
(Chojnice, Poland : August 14th, 2005).
Chojnice is a beautiful city
and very exciting for tourists in the north of Poland.
By the way ELO are very
famous for the citizens of Chojnice.
We have to thank the
councillor Jerzey Erdmann for organizing the first ELO and Jeff
Lynne fan meeting in Poland.
At 3.00 pm the meeting
started with about 20 ELO fans from Poland and Germany (including my
wife and myself) in the music school. With coffee and cake
(organized by Grazyna Erdman), we got to know each other and talked
about the course of the day.
We got the possibility to
visit the city Chojnice and visited the inside of a very old and
beautiful church.
Then the highlight of the
day started. The mayor of Chojnice, Mr. Edward Pietrzyk opened the
musical part of the meeting in the beautiful amphitheatre.
The show started with
Hazard, a group from Warsaw. This group performed songs from ELO
for example “Xanadu” with Eva Brzezinska-Cielepa as soloist.
After the great beginning
the show continued with the instrumental group of the musicschool
from Chojnice. They performed three ELO songs, “Can´t get it out of
my head”, “Strange Magic” and “Telephone Line” on violin, saxophone
and the electric piano. The next appearance was the dance and choir
group directed by Ryszard Stopa. He performed the songs “Confusion”,
“So serious” and “Ticket to the moon”.
Between the different acts
the audience had possibility to play games all around the topic
“ELO”. The fans could improve their knowledge in a quiz or could
participate in the karaoke competition.
A lot of people watched the
concert “ZOOM” from ELO on a big TV-screen, and at the end of the
concert, Dj MC Marco invited the audience to dance.
A wonderful day came to an
end. It was a great adventure for each ELO fan.
Last but not least: Thanks
to all the people who made this meeting real and we hope that will
see us again next year, because Poland loves ELO!
More reviews,
soundclips
and photographs can be found at Jerzy's personal website -
www.erdman.chojnice.pl/elo/elo.htm.
Review
& photos by Manfred
Sapich (Poland / Germany)
