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  the fan dinner and -picnics, 
  created by Ruth Morgan from the 
  USA, who sadly had to cancel her 
  trip to Maastricht at the very last 
  moment. She has been here for all 
  12 years of Vrijthof concerts, just 
  missed the 13th. Thank you dear 
  Ruth, we hope everything will turn 
  out well and you and Jim will join 
  us again next year.
  Decorating the fan dinner ship with 
  flags, our thoughts went out to 
  Alice and Charlie Leung from 
  Vancouver. They created the flags 
  and gave them to us. Charlie 
  (Alice’s father) recently passed 
  away. He was an enthusiastic 
  André fan.
 
  
  
  
 
  A brand new André cutout. The first one joined us at 
  every fan dinner during 8 years. Our dear friend Jann, 
  host of the Australian fan website, gave it to us in 2008, 
  when we were in Australia for concerts and a holiday. To 
  our regret she died as a result of a traffic crash a few 
  years later. That’s why the first cardboard André was very 
  dear to us. But he needed to be replaced. This one is 
  nice too.
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 
  This year we had 135 attendees from 16 nationalities. 
  The weather was hot, the atmosphere great as always and the food delicious as always.
  We thank the Stiphout crew for their professionality.
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
 
  Group photo, made by Al Girard, as always. Thanks Al!
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 
  Below a short video of the fan dinner 2017,
  by Ruud Elshout.
 
  
 
  Below: dessert, with long bars of sorbet ice cream:
  real pieces of art!
 
  
 
  Ineke’s ear ornament: created by Agnes Fizzano-Walter, violinist.
  Gary Bennett, tenor, likes to hop in to greet the fans.
 
  
  
  
  
 
  Alice and Charlie Leung, working on the flags in Vancouver, Canada.
 
  
 
  Ruth Morgan, working on the buttons in Incline Village, Nevada, USA.
 
  
  
  
 
  If you like to see more about the making of the fan stuff, please click HERE.
  and select the fourth video of this page (fan photo shows, part 2).
  
 
  250 badges
  created by 
  Ruth and 
  sent to us in 
  a very big 
  and heavy 
  box!
  Thanks 
  Ruth.
 
 