Dear fan friends,
At the beginning of 2022, Ineke got the idea to write
down her memories of more than 25 years of André
Rieu fan friendships.
Now the time has come that the books, in Dutch and
English, will be available in the second half of April
2024. The books contain 55 chapters, with 150
pages of text and many photos. All fans involved
have given us permission to mention their names
and post photos.
We self-published it for fans only, so, it is not
available in bookstores. We don’t make money from
it, we only charge the cost price (€ 16 and shipping
costs € 5 NL and € 10 abroad).
We thank the fans from all over the world who
contributed to this product. Entire chapters are
dedicated to specific fans (they reviewed, edited,
and approved the content). Other fans are only
mentioned in the text.
Details:
Soft cover, 150 pages, many photos,
Size 17 x 24 cm.
For more information and to order,
See the form below.
April 15, 2024
Twins have been born!! My book about more than 25
years of fan-friendships through André Rieu's music
has been delivered in Dutch and English. It is only
available through Ruud and Ineke. Fill in the form
below or message me. Then we'll give you more
details about how to pay. As soon as we have
received your payment and home-address, we start
the mailings all across the world. For the people who
already ordered and paid: the books are on their way
to you! To produce this book was a big investment for
us. It is better for our administration to order and pay
in advance. We sell them at cost price, plus mailing
costs, we don't earn anything on it. If you will be in
Maastricht in July, we'll take your book to Maastricht,
to save on mailing costs! We do not have a large
stock. Be in time to contact us. Gone is gone.
May 5th 2024
Sonja Harper happened to be in the Netherlands
and visited us, so, we could give her two books, one
in the Dutch and one in the English version. She is
the Godmother of all André fans, since all the world
wide fan-friendships started with her American blog
in 1996.
Sonja’s comment on Facebook: “I love the books,
so many great memories and so many dear friends.
After coming back from the lovely day reminiscing
with Ruud and Ineke I spent quite a few hours
reading and remembering the fun times we have
had. My love goes to all my friends around the
world. Thank you for the good times and wonderful
memories. And special thanks to Ruud and Ineke for
writing this book. I love it”.
May 17th, 2024. (André was touring through England)
Kevin Johnson (UK) on Facebook: “This book was ALWAYS SPECIAL with its personal message from
Ineke Cornelissen, but André signed it and said: “What book? Ah that book!!” Just wow xx! I asked Kevin;
“How did you manage to meet André?” His answer: “I was heading to the train station to go to Harrogate to
Sandy and Kev Mansell. As I approached it, coaches turned up at the hotel nearby so, I hung around a
while, until they exited the coach. They were all lovely, but André was very special of course.
So, until July 2024, Kevin Johnson was the only fan in the world who owned one of my books, including
André’s autograph.
In July 2024 we spent three weeks in Maastricht for 12 concerts.
We took two boxes with 30 ordered and paid books with us, for
the fans who prefered to pick up the book in Maastricht, to save
shipping costs.
Earlier we had already mailed 125 books all across the world.
Only one got lost. Our friend Zulma from Uruguay never
received the book. Other fan friends came to the recue:
We gave another book to Jorge and Marisol Orihuela from
Argentina. They promised to mail the book from Argentina to
Uruguay. We hope it will now reach its destination with Zulma
soon.
We still have 20 copies of the book in store. Please contact us if
you still want to buy a copy.
And Kevin Johnson: now there are two fans in the world who
own a book with André’s autograph added!
André signed my book
(the Dutch version) in
Maastricht in July 2024.
Thank you very much
André!