SASKIA LAROO

This Week Upcoming: 

>Oct 23, 2020: Erasmushuis, Indonesia presents: Duo Laroo/Byrd meets Colladur
>Oct 23, 2020: 32st Weekly Free Friday Feelgood concert by Duo Laroo/Byrd live & online

Dear Music Friends, 

We're past Middle October and the colored leaves are falling down, we hope you feel good, we do! Many concert cancellations due to a second wave of the virus. This Friday however we have two events! Next to our weekly Duo Laroo/Byrd Friday Feelgood Concert we're very excited to share an online collaboration by the Erasmushuis, Jakarta of our Duo Laroo/Byrd with the band Colladur from Indonesia premiering four hours earlier:

We always love to share our music and connect with you live and online wherever in the world you are--explore us!

>Formations:

• the Saskia Laroo Band -  jazzfunk
  Latest LP/CD: Trumpets Around The World
• Duo Laroo/Byrd - organic jazz
  CD: Two Of A Kind - A Tribute To Miles & Monk
• Jazzkia (Saskia Laroo Jazz Quartet)
  CDs: Jazzkia; Sunset Eyes 2000 ft Teddy Edwards & Ernie Andrews
• Warren Byrd (aka Byrdspeak Ensemble)
  CD: Truth Raised Twice

>Upcoming: 

• If circumstances allow, we still anticipate one tour to Thailand in December. All other tours are now cancelled and postponed.
• The continuation of our weekly Duo Laroo/Byrd Free Friday Feelgood concert series live & online from home since March 20 this year 
• Live & online giggin' in the Netherlands and the US. 
• Commissioned film productions exposing our musical heritage to audiences of other countries.
• Intercontinental Virtual Concerts in collaboration with musicians based in their native countries.

>Recent past: 

• Virtual concerts & a drive in performance in the US: 

>With the Saskia Laroo Band 
 -Virtual: in Hartford, CT for Sigourney Square Festival and Keney Park Pondhouse Jazz Series 
 -Virtual: in Somers, CT Live From the Farm Store II 
 -Drive in: in New Bedford, CT for the Zeiterion @ Whale's Tooth Parking Lot
>With Duo Laroo/Byrd 
 -in Hartford, CT: Live for the Hartford Jazz Society and Theaterworks 

• Live concerts for limited audiences in the Netherlands 

>With The Saskia Laroo Band: 
 -in Rotterdam: A Tribute To the Northsea Jazz Festival 
 -in Austerlitz: Het Beauforthuis + extra concert 
>With Jazzkia 
 -in Leiden: Grand Cafe Van't Huis part 1 & part 2 
 -in Leimuiderbrug: Cafe Ruimzicht
>With Duo Laroo/Byrd
 -in Amsterdam: De Balie & Het Pompstation
 -in Haarlem: Music Cafe Stiels

>Coming up this week: 

 Our Free Friday Feelgood concerts from home with Duo Laroo/Byrd, this friday our 32st edition !

>Oct 23, 2020: Continue to start your weekend with our Duo Laroo/Byrd's weekly free Friday feelgood concert series, live and online from home! 
 
Watch our upcoming performance here:

• Tune in: https://www.facebook.com/SaskiaLarooOfficial/  
• or https://www.facebook.com/SaskiaLarooOfficial/live 
• More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1678307462340599

Times: 

• US East Coast time: 1 pm  
• Netherlands and Europe time: 7pm /19:00 hours  
• Far East time: late evening / round midnight