Kaisa Ling & Rene Paul: Christmas concert in Tartu

Kaisa Ling and Rene Paul invite you to spend an evening in December where music, stories about life and everyday matters, and a good dose of palagan (the Estonian art of comic chat-and-ramble) meet.

Kaisa: “Shall we also tell people what the concert is about?”

Rene: “I suppose we should.”

Kaisa: “Well… you play the piano.”

Rene: “Certainly. I even sing now and then.”

Kaisa: “I sing too.”

Rene: “Hopefully.”

Kaisa: “And Christmas songs?”

Rene: “Well, one might accidentally happen.”

More or less that is how it goes!

On stage you will hear songs from Kaisa Ling’s Thing albums, a few gems from the bottom of the drawer and a little festive Christmas spirit. We bring along a piano, microphones, sparkling costumes and as much Christmas mood as one evening can sensibly hold.

Kaisa: I sing about what it is sometimes hard to talk about. That way we can knock all these taboos clean out of the way.

Rene: I play the piano as if I had an old hen to pluck with it.

This is not a concert where you have to sit quietly with a straight back and clap politely at the right moment. You may laugh. You may nod along. You may sing along. Sometimes you may even get a little sentimental. After all, Christmas is at the door.

Kaisa Ling is the best (even if the only) palagan blues singer in Estonia. Sharp humour, scolding and jabs go hand in hand in her with a sense of the world’s pain.

Rene Paul is a pianist and comedian who steps on stage knowing that until the piano smokes and the crowd laughs, the evening has not really started. When the noise and musical antics briefly quiet down, Rene’s blues-man soul is revealed, which makes even the toughest men sigh with tenderness.

Even they do not quite know exactly what will happen this evening. But you can be fairly certain that music will play, there will be laughter, and somewhere in the middle of it all a real Christmas feeling will creep in.

Kaisa: “So has everything been said now?”

Rene: “I think so.”

Kaisa: “Shall we bring Christmas peace too?”

Rene: “Don’t overdo it.”

Kaisa: “Fine, we’ll tell the rest on stage.”

On stage: Kaisa Ling & Rene Paul

Doors open at 18:30

Start at 19:00

Runs for about 2 hours (with interval)

Tickets €10–20 on sale on Fienta

The tour is organised by House of Palagan

Tour information and media contacts: see the organiser’s website