A Blues Jam Session with Matt Walsh in the Hospice’s Garden

Picking up the thread of the little garden concerts in 2020 we offered this year, too, to the seriously ill residents of the hospice a special musical program of chansons, melodies from musicals and jazz, or, in this case, of blues. So Matt Walsh and his fellow musicians made a Sunday afternoon quite an experience. Born in Ireland, Matt Walsh has been living in Münster for many years. It is rather the mellow, smoky tones that make up him and his music. Beside the mouth harp it is the saxophone which he knows to play brilliantly – supported in this session by his three fellow musicians on bass, guitar and cajon (box drum). The emotional sound of the blues deeply touched the audience. It showed once more that music is a consoler.

Whoever looked in the eyes of the musicians and the residents this Sunday afternoon could see: Each and everyone of them had been given a present.