The expression "folklore imaginaire" coined by Béla Bartók fitted perfectly with the 1970s from the ARFI- French jazz movement that emerged collectively in Lyon, drawing on their own and other European folk music for their jazz improvisations. Among the co-founders was Louis Sclavis. And even now, at the age of 69, the woodwind player from Lyon, who focuses on bass clarinet, is one of the leading instrumental adventurers when it comes to bold melody lines. He also proves that with...
Rock am Ring and Rock im Park Only European concerts by the Foo Fighters The Foo Fighters will be headlining Rock am Ring and Rock im Park 2023. © Antonio Scorza/Shutterstoc The Foo Fighters are playing their only European concerts this year at Rock am Ring and Rock im Park in 2023. Rock am Ring and Rock im Park have announced the final headlining band for the 2023 line-up: the Foo Fighters. The performances are even exclusive - like their...
concerts Taylor Swift: Ticket chaos issue in US Congress Taylor Swift draws the crowds - and the ticket shop can't stand up. photo © Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/dpa The website collapses when pre-sales for Taylor Swift concerts occur. An incident that even gets US politicians on the scene - because of the system behind the concert tickets. The debacle surrounding the advance ticket sale for superstar Taylor Swift's (33) US stadium tour even occupied the US Congress. At a public hearing by...
With its premiere in September 2022, the "Superbloom" festival exceeded the expectations of the creators. Instead of the hoped-for 40,000 guests, 50,000 came to the colorful pop potpourri in Munich's Olympic Park. Now there was also an award at the most important industry meeting: Superbloom won the "European Festival Awards" in the category "Best New Festival" (first 40,000 Internet users cast their votes, then a specialist jury chose the winner).Festival director Fruzsina Szep, who once won the main prize twice...
Madonna She announces additional concerts in Germany Madonna is back on tour. © 2015 yakub88/Shutterstock.com Many concerts from Madonna's "Celebration" tour are already sold out. German fans can now look forward to two additional shows. Madonna (64) will be on tour again in 2023. That's what the "Queen of Pop" said a few days ago announced on Instagram. Well became on your website announced that the German fans can look forward to further additional concerts of "The Celebration Tour". Further...
Chamber music, organ concerts and the really big regalia with an orchestra choir: the series has long been popular not only in the Ebersberg district "Bach & More" is musically very diverse. Their creator and main actor, the Zornedinger cantor and organist Matthias Gerstner, has just published the new annual programme. It contains 15 dates in various churches, the focus is again on rarely heard pearls of the Baroque period, but also romantic or Viennese classics will be heard in...
If you from Leo Betzl Trioshort LBT talking, one comes at the mention of the Jazz rush big band bad over. After all, all three band members, along with pianist Leo Betzl, bassist Maximilian Hirning and drummer Sebastian Wolfgruber, were regular members of Roman Sladek's troupe for a long time (and still play with her from time to time). And just as the Jazzrausch Bigband found their recipe for success in large-scale access to technoid sounds, LBT quickly became very...
If you from Leo Betzl Trioshort LBT talking, one comes at the mention of the Jazz rush big band bad over. After all, all three band members, along with pianist Leo Betzl, bassist Maximilian Hirning and drummer Sebastian Wolfgruber, were regular members of Roman Sladek's troupe for a long time (and still play with her from time to time). And just as the Jazzrausch Bigband found their recipe for success in large-scale access to technoid sounds, LBT quickly became very...
"African Song Cycle" is somewhat cryptic for Sunday, January 22nd in the schedule of the Theater at the Fraunhofer. Behind it is a solo performance by the South African cellist and singer Thokozani Mhlambi at the Folk Music Days. The 38-year-old, who studied in Stockholm and Cape Town (and has a master's degree in "public culture" and a doctorate in musicology), is actually at home with cross-genre performance and has performed around the world primarily at interdisciplinary festivals and universities...
Julian Blumenthaler was taught the violin from the age of five. Classic and so successful that the Nuremberger became national winner at "Jugend musiziert". At that time he was already looking for other, freer ways and infected by the jazz virus. Stylistically, he is far more open than most of his colleagues, who are still rare in jazz: he was already with the hip-hop-jazz collective while he was studying in Munich and Klagenfurt Ferge x Fisherman & The Lakesideboyz throughout...
