Image: Lehner/City of Wels
After the premiere in 2021 and a break in the previous year, it returns this year “Gem music festival” back to Wels from September 8th to 10th. As the name suggests, the organizers Hans-Jörg Wanik and Horst Sonntagbauer have put together an eclectic, high-quality line-up with artists from a wide variety of styles. A “Festival of new sounds with exciting and fascinating music ideas” announce the two.
Three concert dates are on the program: Peter Hudler will start on Friday, September 8th at 8 p.m. with his crossover program “Cello on Fire” in the Minorites. The cellist builds bridges between the musical epochs from pop to rock, folk, jazz and classical modern.
Afterwards, from 9 p.m., that will take over “Diknu Schneeberger Trio”, which is one of the best gypsy jazz bands in the world. Together with the violin shooting star Sandro Roy they present fiery, cheerful melodies from their own pen.
Local but cosmopolitan Saturday evening begins in the Greif Municipal Theater: pianist Martin Gasselsberger from Gaspoltshofen and singer Petra Linecker from Wels span an arc from American music from the 1930s to the 1960s, through pop and soul, to their own compositions.
The second part of the evening will be performed by an ensemble that has already performed at Carnegie Hall in New York: “Quadro Nuevo” has been touring the world since 1996 and brings back from his travels a colorful mix of tango styles, music from the Mediterranean and the Orient, voyage songs and much more.
The music of the five-piece band lies somewhere between the Alps and the Balkans “Alpkan”. At a cultural brunch in the Gösser-Bräu on Sunday mornings from 11 a.m., they present their unique mixture of folk music with numerous other styles.
single tickets for one of the concert evenings costs im Presale 30 euros and at the Box office 35 euros. festival passes Is available for 54 or 60 euros. Tickets are available online at jetticket.com or at the Infopoint Greif, in the Wels Info and in the Gösser-Bräu. Further information is available online: kleinodmusikfestival.com
Source: Nachrichten
