Pink Umbrella- RIJU, Coja, Portugal April 17th, 2026

This was a very interesting jazz concert with some famous underground Dutch and one Brazilian musicians, who gathered to play the music by Peter Schön (Crypto, Mad Farmers Liberation Front, Nina Hagen, etc.).  A lot of tall Dutch people and a few people that I had met before but mostly new folks for me. The show started about 21:10 and there was probably about 60-80 people. I was in the front row, which was great for the view but since the left PA speaker had a blown speaker, the volume was heavily shifted to the right. It sounded more balanced when I went to the back at the end of the show. You did not need ear plugs. It was a bit too quiet but decent sound.  It started with a couple of lounge jazz like pieces and you could tell these guys were great players. Rosalinde, Peter´s daughter, she was a real pro singer as well.  Some really challenging vocal parts in some of these songs. They had learned all this music in 2 days! Zanzibar was next and by far the highlight of the evening with everyone taking a great solo and Toniko, the Brazilian 7 string guitar player going off like John McLaughlin. Wow… Wish I had filmed this track. Amazonia, featured a young lady, Amanda, on backing vocals to compliment Rosalinde.  Next was a song by Toniko and Rosa said they had sung 20 years ago. Wow… Lets try it Again?, had Amanda back and she did some of the lead vocals as well. She was nervous for sure. I should say that most of the singing and talking was in Portuguese but Rosa did speak in English a bit more after the first half of the show. The Brazilian song, Primavera was lead by Toniko. 

Next he did a solo acoustic guitar piece. They closed the set with a classic Portuguese song, Avé Maria, in which a group of 8 women joined on the stage and played percusssion and sang.  I though this was the end and left but I could hear they did come back and do one more, it seems. Great musicianship from all. A nice evening out…