Karin Bloemen

Renaissance 2.0

After the extensive celebration of her 40-year anniversary in the theatre in 2023, Karin made a remarkable journey to the south of Chile in early 2024, a sparsely populated region with abundant natural beauty. It became an overwhelming experience, as if she had been transported fifty years back in time; not surrounded by stressed people absorbed in their mobile phones, but by people who have time and engage in real conversations with one another.

Experiencing this more natural pace of life, which we have long since lost here, acted as a profound mirror and led her to a simple conclusion: we need a new Renaissance! Just as the Renaissance, after the dark Middle Ages, drew its inspiration from the time of the Greeks and Romans, we too must once again draw inspiration from the past in order to wrestle ourselves free from the dark period we are currently in. And fifty years ago brings us precisely to the 1970s: freedom, creativity and the most fantastic music!

Step into Karin Bloemen’s time machine and travel back to a time before computers, mobile phones and the digital world. Back to a human scale. Together with her outstanding four-piece band, she delivers an inspiring production that sends the audience back into the twenty-first century, equipped to face the challenges of today and with a broad smile on their faces.
Not to be missed!

concept Karin Bloemen & Marnix Busstra direction Marnix Busstra vocals & performance Karin Bloemen guitar Marnix Busstra keyboards Berthil Busstra bass Norbert Sollewijn Gelpke drums Mark Stoop

This performance has no interval.