Harbor songs with the Hamburg musicians Daniel Kahn & Stella's Morgenster

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This afternoon of songs focuses on the port of Hamburg. Around 1900, it was the most important emigration port in Europe and a hub for millions of Eastern European refugees on their way to the New World, America. Pogroms, the threat of military service and economic hardship drove

drove people away from home in droves.

With workers' songs, exile poems and a portion of sailor's yarn, the musicians from the Hanseatic city sing the praises of the port of Hamburg as a place of departure and arrival, as a symbol of home and refuge and as a refuge for hopes and dreams. Hamburg's special musical tradition is brought back to life with an individual blend of shanties, folk songs and ballads by Hamburg originals such as the Wolf brothers or poets such as Hans Leip.