The International Hajraa Outdoor Volleyball Tournament celebrated its 30th birthday last weekend, looking back at the successes with the theme “HAJLIGHT”. Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t too good, but the event itself was no less of a highlight than any of it’s 29 predecessors! I’ll admit, being member of the organizing volleyball club Hajraa, my opinion is rather colored. But still…

Also pretty colored was the crowd at Friday evening… orange, orange and some more orange! I guess this has something to do with the European Championship match between Holland and France. Can you imagine the party when WE won with an unbelievable score of 4 to 1?!? I’m not much of a soccer fan, but this kind of victory in an European Championship even sparks my enthusiasm! And if that didn’t do it, the great picture opportunities it offers with the strong emotion some fans show, makes it a feast for every photographer!

After the match it was up to the band ‘STORM Live’ to keep the party going, with DJ’s Maximzrz in between their sets. In my opinion they did very well, playing some great ’sing along’ party music. Although a small bit of criticism: I feel their stage performance is a little behind their musical qualities (which are great by the way).

I didn’t catch much of saturday, my few pictures of the volleyball matches won’t make it to the albums. So I’ll skip trough to the next performance… by Groovesum. It’s not a band and it’s not a DJ, it’s -uhh- a bit of both. You know what? I’ll simply copy-paste their own description of the act:

“Groovesum represents a broad and diverse music style that goes from Funky Jazz till firm Latin House. The concept para-soul is a musical combination of a DJ, percussionist and saxophonist. By means of improvising there will exists an original and unique podium performance; a perfect combination in which happy, summer Latin house is completed with rhythmic jazz and soul instruments.”

Anyhow, they always get the crowd asking for more! After Groovesum, it was Little Sister’s turn to rock the party. It was their second time at Hajraa and again, if you ask me, they didn’t disappoint a single bit! I enjoyed their performance as well as their songs. I got a few nice shots of their act before I retired to ‘occupy’ myself at the bar. The volleyball pictures from Sunday won’t make it to the albums either…

Check the album with all of the above here!

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