Tag: Folk
Radio play: “Folk” by John Burnside – Media
The Brit John Burnside takes radio plays seriously like few other authors. If he writes for the radio, then only for that. And not, as often happens, by adapting a…
Munich: Concert by new wave icon Anne Clark in the Muffathalle. – Munich
In the end, it’s the synthesizer that makes people get up and dance. He can be heard for the first time on “Sleeper in Metropolis”. Her 40-year-old first big hit,…
Interview Joni Mitchell – Culture
A call to Joni Mitchell, who looks back on her life’s work and explains why only women understand her music. It’s the fall of 2014. Joni Mitchell had just spent…
Indie folk music: Sufjan Stevens’ new album creates a celebratory mood
Indie folk music Sufjan Stevens’ new album creates a celebratory mood With his tenth album “Javelin” Sufjan Stevens shows his carefree side. photo © Amy Harris/Invision/AP/dpa With choir, orchestra and…
Folk festival: XXL Oktoberfest with more than seven million visitors
Folk festival XXL Oktoberfest with more than seven million visitors The Munich Oktoberfest is coming to an end. photo © Peter Kneffel/dpa Sunshine and two more days of celebration: More…
Background: Big, bigger – Oktoberfest: The folk festival in numbers
background Big, bigger – Oktoberfest: The folk festival in numbers Kick-off to Oktoberfest. Employees bring the beer keg into the festival tent for tapping. photo © Sven Hoppe/dpa Oktoberfest, the…
“Appaloosa Bones” by Gregory Alan Isakov: finally giving up – culture
Soul-nurturing folk anthems about being battered, dented and generally latently broken: the beautiful new album from Gregory Alan Isakov. If the nerve were there for a little bit of pathos,…
Fairs: The most popular folk festivals in Bavaria
From the Gäubodenfest to the Barthelmarkt in Oberstimm to the Fürther Kärwa, many folk festivals in Bavaria attract visitors with beer tents, fairground rides – and a few special features.…
That bangs: Gregor Bloéb mixes up the Tyrolean folk drama in Telfs – culture
So Telfs. Even the Railjet stops here, in the middle of the Inn Valley. Sometimes. When you get off and the train continues, you stand very alone on a very…
Motorcycle World Championship: hope for a “motorsport folk festival” at the Sachsenring
Motorcycle World Championship Hoping for a “motorsport folk festival” at the Sachsenring Jonas Folger from Germany from the Gasgas Factory Racing Tech3 Team in action. photo © Jan Woitas/dpa The…