Music & friends

Tony used to play music in the streets, busking. He also played gigs with friends. For a while Deroll Adams and Norris Bennett and Tony would play in bars and youth centers. In the seventies, you would find them every Tuesday evening in the St Mathijs in Antwerp. So Tony brought musicians in my life. Here you see a picture of Norris playing the dulcimer under a painting. Music was always important to Tony. He played mainly folk, country, some rock and eight bar blues in seven and a half. Some of the Dutch musicians were too precise for him: If a fly lands on their sheet music, they play it... He loved to play flamenco: bullerias, fandangos, ... He played even a few classical pieces. He owned several guitars, two banjo's, and a harmonica on which he liked to blow Irish songs. He has given away several guitars. He gave away a lot of other things too. The painting from 1999 is called She holds nothing.