25 June 2010
Arena Hall, ul. Wyspiańskiego 15, Poznan

The concert will inaugurate the 20th edition of the Malta Festival Poznan 2010.
The event to open this year?s festival is a two-hour concert of Jacques Brel?s songs entitled "The Flat Country" to be held in the Poznan Arena. Although Brel sang mainly in French, believed himself to be a Belgian and was not the enthusiast of the Flemish nationalism, he attached great importance to his Flemish roots. He talked about it, for example, in the film whose screening will accompany the concert. Brel?s style is unique and inimitable, which is why the organisers have invited to take part in the concert artists who are themselves characteristic and recognisable, as they were not interested in imitation but in exciting and diversified interpretation of Brel?s songs. The concert performers include six artists from six countries: Marc Almond, former singer of the Soft Cell duet, from England, Arno Hintjens from Belgium, Dagmar Krause from Germany, Milva from Italy, Mouron from France, and mysterious singer from Poland. The whole is supervised in terms of music by Izidor Leitinger, Slovenian musician settled in Paris, and the concert will be run by Nick Hobbs, the project curator, and his alter ego, Nikolai Galen.