Category: Music

Half an hour before admission, the first carnival-goers gathered outside the closed doors of the clubhouse. While the queue was getting longer and longer, behind the scenes they were preparing for the onslaught. Last vocal tests with the bands, briefing of the security staff, short discussions about the course of events. Despite all the hustle and bustle, this was probably the last chance for georg ort to catch his breath. Because only a few moments later, he and his assistants at the entrance to the 16. Rock carnival round.
Ort has been a member of the herzogenaurach music initiative (MIH) for twelve years. Since then, he has been at the entrance to the traditional event year after year, working with many other helpers to ensure that everything runs smoothly. But he never gets bored: "we actually always take turns at the checkout counter. In the last few years I have played on the stage myself from time to time", tells "schorsch".

Hardly any tickets at the box office

Wonderful weather, a large number of visitors and a lot of water – that’s how you can describe the last ferry of the winegrowers in dettelbach.

"Every last barrel is the beginning and end of the new wine year" is the motto of wine princess katharina. One of the highlights on saturday afternoon was the second buttenlau competition, where clubs from the city had to pour as much water as possible into a coarse vat with skill and athletic endurance. A spontaneously assembled team from the audience also took part in the competition.

She sits weekend after weekend, month after month in the car and drives to concerts of her favorite band. And that for years. Both sides of her car adorned rough stickers with the logo of the group. The band in question is the "dorfrocker", at her most loyal fan around anja wolf, who last weekend celebrated the 1000th birthday of her family. Concert of the french partyrock band visited – and that in kitchener in canada.

The "village rockers thank their fans for their extraordinary loyalty with a very special gift: a joint trip to las vegas. "This is the absolute insanity, and we are pleased that we have such a faithful companion for more than twelve years – since our dorfrocker-beginning 2007 – at our side, which supports us so great, so fantastic, so unbelievable", the village rockers write on their facebook page.

Christine wittenbauer seemed at a loss: "is this a classical concert??" the host city archivist’s perplexity at the audience funeral in the former synagogue about what the nurnberger feuerbach quartet is about to do was nicely played. But somehow it was classical, as rock classics were put into the guise of a classical string quartet. A friday evening not soon to be forgotten.

Donovan’s hurdy-gurdy man

Lukas kroczek was a prize winner in the "jugend musiziert" competition. Then a young student at the richard strauss conservatory in munich. Now he’s a philharmonic. That doesn’t stop him from putting his cello over his knee and using it as a guitar. To this end, he sings solo donovan’s "hurdy gurdy man" from 1968. A little later, max eisinger does something similarly colorful when he uses a kind of children’s keyboard to create the signature song of the world hit "take on me from aha plays. With the gestures of a rock star and in childlike joy, the second violinist stands there, also a multiple prize winner and philharmonic musician, just like violinist jamila musayeva or violist eugen hubert.

Karl-heinz hofmann rothenkirchen- with the concert "A weihnachtlicha stund" (christmas hour) the rothenkirchen music society impressed and delighted the visitors in the st.-bartholomew church in rothenkirchen. Under the direction of daniel hilbert the instrumentalists offered an emotional and contemplative repertoire.

The house of god was as quiet as a mouse, and the atmospheric lighting, the christmas decorations and above all the impressive acoustics contributed to the listeners’ devotion and contemplation. The thoughtful concert, which was organized by the music society for the third time, expressed the high performance of the orchestra.

Two djs, a colorful musical mix of electro-swing and techno, rock, pop, and around 150 students partying exuberantly at the leintritt. The special thing about this scenario: although the party alarm should have been heard at least as far as the sandstrabe, the gravel parking lot on the banks of the regnitz river, where the marquee is always located during the sandkirchweih, was almost dead silent. The reason: the students celebrated a so-called "silent party". The music did not come from huge loudspeakers as usual, but from headphones.

The advantages of this type of party: everyone can individually regulate their volume at the ear, if you don’t like the music, you can change the channel and if you prefer to talk, you don’t have to shout at the other person as is usual in discos, but simply take your headphones off your ears and carry on your conversation without disturbing sources of noise spoke.

On saturday evening, nearly 500 music fans from all over upper franconia came to see the legendary band, which has long since attained cult status, in the brucklein tent.

The band once again pulled out all the stops of their musical skills, so that the marquee sometimes really "shook". The concert is also considered the annual "waldschrat band meeting".

Nicole julien-mann the young artists of the duo "clariphin" set the highest standards in the opening concert of the VHS music ring in the kronach district culture room.

The career of young musicians usually begins very slowly with countless auditions in front of strict committees at universities and academies. A few minutes decide which way the thumb points. In a short time, the performers were to show as much finesse as possible in terms of sound and virtuosity. Claude debussy composed his premiere "rhapsodie for clarinet and piano" for exactly this purpose.

Artbreit with distance? Several thousand people in the old town of marktbreit, on squares in courtyards, empty buildings, in front of paintings, in front of sculptures, at music venues? "Artbreit doesn’t work with tight confines and two-meter spacing", says claus-peter berneth, one of the organizers of the grob art festival in the southernmost city on the main river.

And therefore also the consequent step: artbreit will not take place this year, will be cancelled. So much for the bad news. The good news: the festival will be postponed. By a year to the weekend before pentecost on 15. And 16. May 2021.And another good news from marktbreit: all artists who were booked for artbreit 19 in 2020 have confirmed to come again the following year.