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Last goodbye –
On Wednesday, January 5, the last farewell to guitarist Luboš Andršt († 73), cousin of the singer Petr Janda (79), took place from two o’clock in the afternoon. The ceremony took place in the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Prague.
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A funeral took place in the Church of the Sacred Heart of the Lord on Prague’s Jiřího z Poděbrad Square in Prague from 2 p.m. guitarist Luboš Andršt. He died on December 20 at the age of seventy-three.
„On the night of Monday, December 20, my oldest teammate, an amazing musician and classmate at a rock school, as he always said, Luboš Andršt, died. We will remember him tomorrow (Tuesday) in Lucerne. His cousin Petr Janda is with us. RIP friend! ”Wrote musician Michal Prokop on Facebook when he learned the sad news.
Andršt was a cousin singer Petr Jandawho could not miss the funeral.The coffin had a large number of flowers and wreaths not only from relatives but also close friends.
music career
The name Andršt, who was born on July 26, 1948 in Prague, is inextricably linked with Czech blues. The musician, in whose work it is possible to find the influences of ethnic, classical or rock music, stood at the birth of the successful Blues Alive festival in Šumperk in 1996. Over the years, Andršt, in addition to Prokop and Stivín, has also collaborated with Emil Viklický, Marián Varga, Peter Lipa and Martin Kratochvíl in his Jazz Q group.
For example, Andršt played on Prokop’s album Město ER, with Jazz Q he recorded the album Observatory. At the beginning of 1973 he founded his own blues rock group Energit, later he performed under the name Luboš Andršt Blues Band or Luboš Andršt Group. His albums include Capricornus and Imprints. In the early 1990s, Andršt led an accompanying group Marta Kubišová (79). Last year, Andršt’s commemorative book Still Playing I Stand Up was published, on which he worked with Blues Alive music journalist and playwright Ondřej Bezr.
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