2025 · Wiligrad Castle

The Beez The Beez

FINISSAGE · Concert with The Beez · 5 July 2025, 5 pm

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The Beez, Manfred W. Juergens The Beez, Manfred W. Juergens

The Beez, Manfred W. Juergens The Beez, Manfred W. Juergens

The Beez, Manfred W. Juergens The Beez, Manfred W. Juergens

Manfred W. Juergens, Wiligrad Castle Manfred W. Juergens, Wiligrad Castle

The Beez · Audio samples

With one foot in Germany and the other in Australia, the four sunny earthlings lavishly share the boundless summer feeling with their audience. There are virtuoso musicians like sand in the ocean, The Beez are like a beach with the sea. Together they have the power to blow powerful and sonorous waves of entertainment off the stage.

A flood of self-written hits and recycled flotsam rushes over the heads of the audience, who become happy surfers in this current.

Since the band's founding in Berlin in 1997, Deta C. Rayner and Rob Rayner have been Mama and Papa Bee; since 2020 (oops, what happened then?) they've been empty nesters, or in other words: the kids have left the nest.
Mum and Dad in Australia, their colleagues in Germany, Spain, or America. And so The Beez transformed the entire long lockdown into rockdown, rehearsing as a duo until the sparks flew, rocking until their tiny house walls shook, and are now an unbeatable duo and are celebrated as a highlight at many Australian festivals.
In the summer of 2025, they will return to Germany for the third time with their purring bass accordion, their grumpy yet velvety electric guitar, and wonderful choral singing. The casual, humorous style of their performance, full of seriousness and self-irony, is the icing on the cake of the show, easily fitting into any luggage rack and always there.
For eight wonderful weekends exclusively, they have enlisted two honorary superbees from Melbourne: Sarah Busuttil (violin/vocals) and Silas Palmer (Hammond organ/violin/ukulele/vocals). Old and new hits, their own songs, and idiosyncratic cover versions of famous songs were extensively rehearsed and Beezed. And lo and behold, the queen is back in the game: Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen!
Those who already know The Beez know what that means; those who don't can look forward to a great new discovery.


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