'Lollig en Fries' is perhaps the best description of the not very traditional folk duo Pigmeat. Some will flee for that, but it is a fact that Jan Seunnenga and Sytse Haima (both on vocals, guitar and percussion) played the (Northern) pub stages flat for almost twenty years and en route a series of albums and singles (with often hilarious video clips). ) delivered. That is now a thing of the past;
on March 21, 2009 Pigmeat gave a last performance in De 2 Gemeenten, Jirnsum. This farewell concert in which all audience favorites in a set list of forty-six songs were played once more, was immortalized by Omrop Fryslân. Gluttony combined with Frisian dryness ('And now the second song again. That makes good progress') make the performance a pleasant affair for an enthusiastic audience. The combination of loosely played folk traditionals and own compositions (mostly sung in Dutch or Frisian) vary from chewed (The Wild Rover) to hit (the Blonde Alien sung to Geert Wilders). They will be missed there in the Far North. (MR)more
