The Guitar Festival Nordhorn (GFN) was an initiative of Kulturhaus NIHZ in Nordhorn, Germany, the enterprise of Bobby Rootveld and Sanna Rootveld-Van Elst.
Together they form the recorder-guitar duo Niet In Het Zwart (NIHZ) (which translates as Not Dressed In Black). Duo NIHZ has performed all over Europe, in South America, India and the Far East.
Kulturhaus NIHZ was intended as a meeting place for musicians, artists and audiences, a home for events like the Guitar Festival Nordhorn and the Recorder Festival Nordhorn.
The first Guitar Festival Nordhorn was held in 2011, in the same year of the establishment of Kulturhaus NIHZ. Eight more festivals followed until the corona crisis threw a spanner in the works. Organizing events at that time proved to be an impossible task, especially in Germany. At the moment (2022) the festival has been taken over by the Förderverein Erinnerung mit Zukunft e.V. resulting in the Nesjomme Festival, a festival focused on Jewish music and culture.
The lustrum of the Guitar Festival Nordhorn in 2015 seemed like a good opportunity for me to look back and reflect on five successful years of GFN! I had already written the reports of five years of festival, I planned to integrate them in a book.
Feast on Six Strings, Five Years of Guitar Festival Nordhorn contains my reviews of the first five years of GFN as published by the DOS Amigos Homepage plus interviews with supporters, artists, participants of the professional and amateur competitions. Statistics and a list of participants over the years are included as well.
Writing this book has been an exciting and instructive project for me. I hope that you will read this book with as much pleasure as I experienced in writing it.
With many thanks to all the people that cooperated in the interviews, provided me with photographs and helped otherwise!
Ordering
You can order this book on-line! With the Printing On Demand company Pumbo.nl I created a nice soft-cover book, 375 pages with photographs. It has a bit of weight: One Kilogramme exactly! To order, visit: http://www.boekenbestellen.nl/boek/feast-on-six-strings