Here's an article we had translated by a friend of the band from our Germany tour in March 2009!

Pandula presented their 20th festival on the Friday evening in the Hanse hall. Instead of a few Rough legged fellows playing, the “Celtic Ladies" sang. A special pleasure for ears and eyes at the same time.

Pandula still remembers the time when the festival was in the children's shoes when the groups still had to be written up by letter because there were still no e-mails, and some musicians were not even accessible by telephone. The " Fallen Angels ” had also formed up around this time, Irelands oldest woman's group which delivered the musical prelude of the arrangement on Friday. With their A Capella performance they showed that Celtic songs are not only barfighting songs. In ingenious arrangements of their nice voices in different sound positions they sang of subjects which moved not only women: from the green valleys of West Virginia and from the freedom-fighter James Connolly who was executed in 1916 fastened on a chair with heavy injuries. They also sang romantic love songs like Neil Youngs "Love is a rose" or ancient "She moved throught the fair".

The soloists of the quintet  "The Outside Track ” met each other in the academy of music and dance in Limerick. In this 2005 formed band , three Celtic nations are represented: Ireland, Scotland and Canada. Out of these roots they get their songs, orchestrated with violin, harp, accordion, flute and guitar. They proved that they are strong vocally with songs like " Broken of bridge ” or "Kiss in the morning early ." They succeeded the show a connection of traditional music with modern elements.

Although the audience was barely reserved withthe first two groups and showered the musicians with applause, it went off with the Canadian group "Searsons". The spectators were carried away by the cool rhythms, the roaring percussion, the funky guitar sounds and E bass sounds. Above all, Colleen Searson turned out to be a true devil's violinist. She played her Fiddle so that the bow threatened to glow. Colleen: "Ordinarily I get by three days with a bow, but today I already broke one ”. Accompanied sometimes only by the drum, “Searsons” surprised with skillful tap dance inserts. With "Jolene" and the famous "Super-Girl" all actors of the evening assembled once again on the stage and proved in such a way that musically absolutely different groups can make music harmoniously with each other.