Bernhard Schlichting – The Live Music way

Everyday People PNG : Bernhard Schlichting

I would have been 25 years old at the time.

In Bougainville, my brother Peter had a building company.

He brought me over to work and having met the people and travelled around this beautiful place, I fell in love with it all.

I asked my brother if I could stay and since then I never left.

After 6 months I managed to get my wife over and it’s been quite the journey for us both for the past 50 years.

Music for me started way back in Germany, so in Bougainville, it wasn’t long before I began the search for musicians two weeks after I had arrived there.