Image: The Big Easy
One should be careful with the term “legendary”, but in this case one can speak of a legendary music group without exaggeration. “The Big Easy” are back in town, which is quite a rarity. And the group around founding members Frank Folgmann and Herwig Krainz also has something to celebrate. It’s been 25 years since the great lightness became visible and audible in Linz for the first time.
If you can believe the words of guitarist Folgmann, then it was “a studied jazz player, an orchestral bassist, an opera singer, an autodidact and a remedial massage therapist on the piano” who founded “The Big Easy” a quarter of a century ago to sing other people’s songs to play in such a way that they should have their own note. Word quickly spread.
25 years later, the “remaining four” (besides Folgmann and Krainz, the original voice and musician Rudy Pfann and keyboardist Andi Wiesinger) celebrate the anniversary on April 21st and 22nd in the Kultur Hof in Linz. The first day is already sold out, there are still tickets available at the box office for Saturday, which can also be taken as an indication that the reputation of “The Big Easy” has remained in the city. The time when live music was still offered in pubs is long gone. But it’s never too late for good things, and even at a slightly advanced age, musical ease can be lived if you can trust what you’re doing.
Also “The Voice” and an angel are there
In this specific case, this will mean that in the courtyard in Linz’s Ludlgasse, the rhythm’n blues and pop and rock classics from the late 1970s will again be polished to a high gloss in the manner typical of “The Big Easy” between bowing and appropriation in the own music cosmos will celebrate resurrection. And because a ceremony is already presented in two acts, companions will also stand by the side of the quartet. “The Voice” Thomas Rachbauer is just as much a part of this as the Jive Club Horns with Thomas Mandel, Rainer Gutternigg and HG. Gutternigg. And the rumor is also making the rounds that the band’s longtime roadie will not only have his sights set on the musicians’ equipment. His name: Blonde Angel. Little can go wrong there.
Source: Nachrichten
