Crooner - DAAN

For 30 years, Daan has been surprising his loyal audience with a whirlwind of musical genres, from pop noire to indie rock, electro to country, beats & ballads, usually in English, but sometimes also in Frans of Nederlands. Anyone looking for the common thread in his work will be able to discover in this theater tour that all those songs have something in common; the often melancholic and at the same time humorous lyrics full of visual metaphors (Daan is a graphic artist, after all) and a (storm and) urge to translate this into almost baroque musical paintings. Crooner distills all his songs in the same musical way; Daan behind the grand piano or guitar, Isolde Lasoen, Daan's permanent musical muse for 25 years, on vibraphone, drums, trumpet, bells, and angel vocals, and the virtuoso Jean-François Assy, known as a musician for, among others, Alain Bashung, William Sheller of Yann Thiersen, on his atypical cello. The theater hall of De Kluize allows Daan to get closer to the audience and take the time to share the stories behind his colorful life path and mysterious lyrics. Every evening something just a little different happens, because Daan interprets his favorite covers just as gladly and originally as his own repertoire of more than 300 songs, as if they were his own children.