We are delighted to announce the proceeds from our charity evening on the first Sunday of Advent 2025, featuring cabaret artist JÜRGEN BECKER and pianist JACOB KARLZON:

63,760 euros

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this fantastic result.

With the donations, we will purchase a special ventilator for premature babies as well as various incubators, ECG devices and monitoring monitors. The equipment will be loaded onto trucks in Germany and transported on our behalf by the Blue and Yellow Cross from Cologne directly to children's hospitals in Lviv, Dnipro and Ternopil, where it will be assembled and put into operation.

The daily mental stress caused by the Russian war has led to a sharp increase in premature births and deaths due to a lack of equipment in Ukraine. The replacement equipment now being delivered is urgently needed and can save lives. That makes it so important and valuable.

We wish all eastPLUGGED® guests a peaceful (or more peaceful) 2026 and look forward to further musical experiences with you in the special atmosphere of the Friedenskirche in Ratingen.

The eastPLUGGED® concert year 2026 gets off to a brilliant start with a double concert:

Concert No.1: Percussionist Robert Ikiz is active in at least two musical worlds: his two previous eastPLUGGED® gigs focussed on Scandinavian music, while his LAHZA project, which he will now present together with Turkish guitarist Cenk Erdoğan in the Friedenskirche, is based on southeast-european musical traditions. This programme immediately convinced us, something completely different and yet something very familiar, wonderful harmonious pieces of high recognition characterize this programme, which at the same time provides space for improvisation.

Concert No.2: Spanish pianist Daniel Garcia meets Swiss vocal acrobat Andreas Schaerer (who was last at eastPLUGGED® in 2018 with the acclaimed programme ‘A Novel Of Anomaly’). How does this new duo work together? We were lucky to hear some of their pieces in advance, and the answer is: simply brilliant! Let them surprise you.

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Changes in line-up possible. Exchange and return of reserved seats excluded.

To avoid rubbish, we do not use paper tickets. Access just by name as booked. Free choice of seats.

NO BOX OFFICE

The concert is sold out, but in early February a few additional places might become available (which we had to block until then due to legal reasons). In case of interest you are invited to file a corresponding application via our waiting list. 40€pp incl. drink.

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Apart from spontaneous JAM sessions, Vincent Peirani's quintet “Living Being” was the largest eastPLUGGED® band to date.

This pole position is now taken by Norwegian pianist Kjetil Mulelid, who expanded his already excellent quintet with two great musicians to a septet: Trygve Seim will play the second saxophone alongside Sissel Vera Pettersen and trumpeter Mathias Eick will complete the wind trio. Together with percussion [Lars Horntveth], bass [Bardur Reinert Poulsen] and drums [Andreas Winther], all this results in a maximum Norwegian sound for the septet's German premiere. The AGOJA project comprises both melodic and rhythmic compositions by Kejtil, in which the Norwegian roots can be identified at their best, and perhaps you will become inspired by this music to plan your next trip to this wonderful country with its more than 30,000 kilometres of coastline.

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Changes in line-up possible. Exchange and return of reserved seats excluded.

To avoid rubbish, we do not use paper tickets. Access just by name as booked. Free choice of seats.

NO BOX OFFICE

Reservations at 40€/p (incl. drink) only online via the following order form: