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Aug 25, 2018 WARFHUIZEN - Every stage has its golden rules. At Roodehaan in Warfhuizen by 11 p.m. at the latest it must be quiet. With some imagination it is possible to picture how manager Teus stands in front of the band and lectures these restrictions to them strongly, because he also requires this of his camping guests. Otherwise the plug will be pulled! However, an uprising threatened to happen at 11 p.m. at the performance of Saskia Laroo's Funky 5 if an encore would not ensue
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Nov 18, 2014 "Some fools say jazz is also a monolith. Not as long as there are vibrant energizers like Laroo's crew playing. Her stage was small scale, but her performance was large. It was exactly the kind of thing that keeps jazz alive." Concert review 'Saskia Laroo Band at Cotton Club' by Philip Woolever for AllAboutJazz
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Oct 17, 2014 "As a movie for the ears, you are immediately sucked into the interaction between stage and audience. Laroo plays the stars out of the heavens, while her grooving band trundles on, fiercely propulsive. It is funk, jazz-dance and hip-hop in one" CD review 'Saskia Laroo Band - Live in Zimbabwe' by Stan Rijven for Dutch National newspaper Trouw (translated by W Byrd)
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Oct 17, 2013 'Jazzy Saskia Laroo'
Article by Klaas Koopman for Dutch newspaper "Gooi en Eemlander"
Photo: Freddie 'gig' Vialle.
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Oct 15, 2013 Interview on Voice of Russia (radio and press)
Journalist Anna Delitsieva has painted a portrait of Saskia Laroo.
'Mein Leben in der Musik ist die Suche nach Identität'
click for link to audio and text (in German)