MUSIC

Sanda Weigl: The Commie Girl

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2022
8:00 PM

Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn

$20
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Sanda Weigl tells the story of her life in 15 songs. But it’s a really interesting story. Born in Romania to German parents, she became the lead singer of the most popular rock band in East Germany (what could that have sounded like, I wonder?) (actually with the internet you don’t have to wonder — although that appears to have been before Weigl joined) — until being thrown into a forced labor camp after expressing her opposition to Russia’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, and then expelled from the country. In the West, she has made herself known as an admiring but ironic outside singer of Roma music (kind of what the Rolling Stones are to American R&B) and also of the cabaret that is her birthright as a relation of Bertolt Brecht. This should be good.

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