Alexander Broussard – The Songbook Sessies: Echoes from the Seventies
In the show Echoes from the Seventies at Theater Ludens, musician Alexander Broussard dives deep into one of the most colourful decades in pop music history. This theatre concert is part of the multi-part Songbook Sessies series.
The seventies were anything but one-dimensional musically. Rock, prog, funk and disco coexisted, influenced each other and sometimes clashed. Alexander Broussard picks out the most defining songs, year by year, and weaves in the context: what was happening, why that record mattered and how the sound of an entire era could be captured in a few chords. His approach is personal and narrative, never dry or didactic.
Alexander Broussard at Theater Ludens
Broussard built his reputation as a pianist and performer in productions such as The Billy Joel Experience and Le Canzoni Italiane, and collaborated with names like Najib Amhali and Crazy Pianos. That background shows in the way he works a room: technically accomplished, but above all warm and approachable. At Theater Ludens, an intimate venue in The Hague, that works particularly well. The distance between stage and audience is small, and in this show that feels like a deliberate choice.
The Songbook Sessies: a series worth following
Echoes from the Seventies does not stand alone. The show is part of the Songbook Sessies, a nine-part series of theatre concerts in which Broussard places a different musical era or theme at the centre each time. Anyone who attended previous instalments will know the formula: an evening somewhere between concert, lecture and theatre. The show includes an interval drink.
