At Wings for the walker Wilfried Van den Brande, accompanied by Benno Barnard, went in search of the music behind the poet W.H. Auden and ended up with the songs of Cole Porter.
After a series of performances and two concerts at the FENIKS FESTIVAL 2009, the Wings for the walker a second life in the Cole Porter Sessions at BAFF.
WALPURGIS hosts Wilfried Van den Brande in the period 2008-2009 under the name GENEROSITA. With this residency, WALPURGIS provides logistical, artistic and financial support in the development of Wilfried's individual artistic trajectory.
During his residency at WALPURGIS, Wilfried Van den Brande is curating a series of surprising encounters between writers, singers, musicians and philosophers.
After the successful series of Salons in 2008-2009, Wilfried ism WALPURGIS will again organise the Salon in 2009-2010 with his BAFF colleagues, a series of encounters between singers, poets, actors, musicians and thinkers. He does this together with Benno Barnard, Tom Van Bauwel and Adriadne Van den Brande.
On 10 Sunday afternoons, Wilfried Van den Brande (vocals) and Dirk Baert (piano) will take you into the musical-literary wonderland of Cole Porter.
They chronologically explore the oeuvre and life of this phenomenal American composer, an icon of the international jet set of the 1920s-’60s. Cole Porter wrote lyrics and music to more than 40 standards, songs that are etched in the collective memory. Night and day, Ev're time we say goobye, I've got you under my skin, Anything goes,....
But besides these hits, there is also a lot of unexplored yet extremely interesting territory. With quite a critical eye, Wilfried and Dirk made a selection of just under 200 songs from the more than 900 titles Porter wrote.
