Languages & Summertime

Summertime was composed in English, but nowadays it has been sung in many languages (we mention at random one artist in the language). The Summertime Connection knows of performances in :

• Bulgarian - Slavi Trifonov
• Catalan - The Mimisikous Band
• Czech - Hana Hegerová
• Dutch - Wilfred Klaver
• German - Peter Kraus
• --- Esperanto - Nicolin'
• Estonian - Optimistid
•  Finnish - Topi Sorsakoski
• French - Joe Dassin
• Frisan - De Kast
• --- Hohenloher - Annâweech
• Hungarian - Tamás Sebesi

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• Italian - I Dalton
• Japanese - Kimiko Ito
• Yugoslavian - Henda
•  Lithuanian - Skamp
•  Māori - Whirimako Black 
• Papiamento - Tropical Taste
• Polish - Petra Janù
• Portuguese - Nara Leão
• Russian - Oleg Skripka
• Serbian - Basa
• Spanish - Cubismo
• --- Yiddish - Lee Colbert
•  Welsh - Sarah Glyn-Jones
  
• --- Zoeloe - Amanda Strydom

Kwartet Okazjonalny from Poland has performed a trilingual version of Summertime in which the characteristics of those languages are presented in a cabaretical way.

There even exists a text in English 'Invitation to communion and/or Agnus Dei' by David Lee entiteld Bread is Broken, but this one has never been performed yet.