Schumann, Beethoven and Bach via the Bee Gees

Dutch musician and self-professed 'sit-down' comedian Hans Liberg has been entertaining audiences by taking the mickey out of music from Mozart to Bach via the Bee Gees, for the past 20 years. In between renditions of Kermit the Frog’s 'Rainbow Connection' and Beethoven’s fifth symphony, he tells Arts Hub's Michelle Draper why his latest show features "Men in Black" look-alikes who pla
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‘Why are there so many… Songs about rainbows?’ Hans Liberg, the Dutch musician and self-professed ‘sit-down’ comedian, chirrups down the phone from Holland. It’s not intended as an impromptu serenade, although the rendition of Kermit the Frog’s famous banjo solo, I have to admit, is endearing. In fact, Liberg is demonstrating one of the moments in his life, when he discovered he was actually kinda funny, as well as a gifted musician.

‘It was during a children’s musical, and all these things went wrong!’ Liberg recalls. According to his wife and friends, the musician’s reactions to on-stage mishaps had audiences in stitches. In his mid-twenties at the time, Liberg decided he could use this subconscious knack of turning musical mistakes into improvised humour as the basis for a one-man comedy show.

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Michelle Draper
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Michelle lived and worked in Rome and London as a freelance feature writer for two and a half years before returning to Australia to take up the position of Head Writer for Arts Hub UK. She was inspired by thousands of years of history and art in Rome, and by London's pubs. Michelle holds a BA in Journalism from RMIT University, and also writes for Arts Hub Australia.