1/4/2011 – Last week we told you about the ChessBase
Christmas party – but left one part of the report pending: the special
guest we had invited to give the our staff, friends and business partners a
seasonally heart-warming musical experience. The guest was an actress, singer,
composer and book author, who gave us a preview of songs from her next album. Vaile at ChessBase.
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The ChessBase Christmas Party – part 2
Pictorial report by Frederic Friedel and Nadja Wittmann
Every year in the week before Christmas the ChessBase staff and business partners
gather together for a company dinner. We showed you some pictures in a previous
report, but left the special event for part two, which we are now pleased
to present.
A special guest at the Christmas party was Vaile, a well-known actress,
singer and composer, who is a big chess fan – she plays at least one game
a day, usually independent of her work schedule.
Vaile is quite well-known to our readers – her are some stories which
feature her:
If you go to the second article listed above you will see that Vaile is
also interested in chess boxing. In fact the actress keeps fit by attending
training sessions for chess boxing (we kid you not) three times a week.
At the ChessBase Christmas party Vaile gave us a concert, on a little stage
we had
constructed in our entry and storage department
She sang songs from her latest album, due for release in February this year
The ChessBase staff and visitors listened in fascination to the musical
presentation
Naturally we recorded the concert and have posted a short clip of it on
YouTube
Video of Vaile at the Christmas party
Vaile sang some of the songs from her new album, and then bravely went on
to sing
"White Christmas", doing this for the very first time, in English,
from sheet music.
The section begins at around two minutes into the above video clip.
Finding freedom
This astonishing young lady is not just a singer and actress (and chess boxer
and deep sea diver, and a number of other things). Once a year Vaile sets out
with two horses on a trip into the Scandinavian forests, to spend six weeks
alone, meeting no human soul, surviving essentially on what she can dig up,
pluck or catch. She has done this for ten years now, ever since she was a teenager.
When one of Germany's top publishing houses, Knauer, heard about this they commissioned
her to write a book, Frei
Sein, which was published as an illustrated top title last
November.
The book is in German, but will probably soon be available in other languages
(an English language publisher is being sought). At the same time Vaile has
the new album which contains songs that are closely connected to the horseback
trips and finding freedom in the forests of the north.
Incidentally Vaile and her music production company will be distributing this
album directly and are still looking for investors. If you are interested you
will find the conditions for the potentially lucrative investors'
agreement here. The page contains sample songs, media links and
contacts.
Finding freedom – Vaile in concert and in the forest
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