Martin GRÜNEBERG: Music and mine (Germany)

A unique artistic event at Gut Geisendorf on the edge of the Welzow-South opencast mine saw surface mining equipment provide the backdrop to a performance by BAYON music band. The audience of some 2,000 enjoyed the interplay between saxophone player Christoph Theusner on the bucket wheel of a SRs 6300 excavator and the rest of the band on an adjacent stage.