FESTIVAL ROSTER 2019
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OVERVIEW BANDS
SWISS ARTISTS
BABA SHRIMPS MAREY ANNA ROSSINELLI BO KATZMAN VERONICA FUSARO FLORIAN SUMMER LOCO ESCRITO SOPHIE DE QUAY & THE SHEM THOMAS WAVEGUARDS LINA BUTTON DREAMSHADE MEMORY OF AN ELEPHANT FINAL STORY THE BEAUTY OF GEMINA POLAR CIRCLES
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INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS
JOHANNES OERDING (DE) WARDRUNA (NOR) MICHAEL PATRICK KELLY (IRL) DIE PRINZEN (DE) THE WEIGHT (AT) DIETER THOMAS KUHN (DE) NITS (NL) ABBA GOLD (DE/UK) EISBRECHER (DE)
URBAN ARTISTS
FLER (DE) ALI (CH) TA’SHAN (CH) LCONE (CH) LANDRO (CH) CHABEZO (DE) OTTO NORMAL (DE) GLB (CH) FREEZY (CH)
SWISS ARTISTS
BABA SHRIMPS
www.babashrimps.ch
Video – Hurry Hurry Album: Road To Rome, June 2017 Single: Hurry Hurry, January 2018; Walk a Mile, August 2018 Baba Shrimps have already played countless shows at
clubs and popular festivals. This summer alone the band has rocked the stage of well-known events like the Open Air Lumnezia, Rock the Ring and Heiteren Open Air. The trio fronted by singer Adrian Kübler released their new album "Road To Rome" in June 2017 and immediately dived into the Charts. Their successful tour brings the three men to Rome in October 2018. New music is planned for 2019.
ANNA ROSSINELLI
www.annarossinellimusic.com
Video – Hold Your Head Up Album: White Garden (Release January 2019) Anna Rossinelli is certainly no stranger anymore. Over the last years, she has seduced us with her voice and proven through her musical skills that she is a force to be reckoned with. By the start of 2017 Anna was in the Swiss National Television with the show “Ich schänke dir es Lied” and played at many festivals during summer. She has just released her new Single „Hold Your Head Up“ and gives a little taste of her upcoming Album that will be released in the first quarter of 2019.
VERONICA FUSARO www.veronicafusaro.com Video – Better If I Go Album: Ice Cold, 2018 Single: Venom, October 2018 Veronica Fusaro impresses with her wonderful voice fans and industry experts alike. She is named as one of the
most promising Swiss talents with prospect of international success. She was able to show her skills at the Swiss Music Awards 2018, The Great Escape in Brighton, the Reeperbahnfestival 2017/18, Openair St. Gallen 2018, Baloise Session 2018, Gurtenfestival, Rock Oz'Arènes. She is steadily touring, now with her newly released single "Venom" and playing concerts in Switzerland and other places in the world like the Australian Music Week 2018.
LOCO ESCRITO www.locoescrito.com
Video – Adiós Album: La Conquista, 2016 Single: Adios, 2018 The 28 year old, born in Columbia, captures the hearts of his audiences left and right. His latest Single “Sin Ti” was played in several Latin American countries in 2017 and the show dates in Switzerland and Portugal keep piling up. Loco Escrito oozes zest for life. Just recently the album of the chart-topper reached Platin and he played and amazed at the Energy Air in the Stade de Suisse with an audience of 40’000 people.
SHEM THOMAS www.shemthomas.com
Video - Valley Album: You’re (Not) the Only One, June 2015 With a Number One Hit, a debut single with gold status, over two million streams on Spotify and two Airplay-Hits Shem Thomas is one of the most successful Swiss Singer-Songwriter of the last few years. The Rheintaler not only catapulted himself in the final of “The Voice of Switzerland” in 2014 but also in the musical hearts of many Swiss people. After touring for almost two years the musician retreated to write new songs. They are ready to be released by the start of 2019.
LINA BUTTON www.linabutton.com Video – Misty Mind Album: New Album February 2019 Single: November 2018 Lina Button released three albums since 2011, which made it directly to the Swiss Charts. The singles have reached a noteworthy Airplay and the Singer-Songwriter was nominated twice for a Swiss Music Award. With every Release she did an extensive Club and Festival- Tour – over 160 concerts, for example at the Open air Gampel and Blue Balls Lucerne. And in Germany the Artist convinces with her strong voice and charming stage presence, like at the WDR 5 Liedernacht or in the Jazzhaus Freiburg.
MEMORY OF AN ELELPHANT
www.memoryofanelephant.ch
Video - Sunday Morning Album: New EP planned February 2019 Memory of an Elephant have played a prosperous Swiss tour, and made stops at the Zermatt unplugged Gurtenfestival in Bern. The sextet from Olten has released their latest album “Echoes” in March 2017 and continued their success story with shows at the Andermatt live and Summerstage in Basel.
THE BEAUTY OF GEMINA
www.thebeautyofgemina.com
Video - Crossroads Album: Flying With The Owl, 2018 For now more than 10 years The Beauty Of Gemina are on stage together. Six studio albums, Top-Ten Placements in the Alternative-Charts in all of Europe and sold out concerts in many countries decorate the road of the Dark-Wave-Band around Mastermind Michael Sele.
After the celebrated and sold out Silent Land Tour, the band is back on the road again with their new album “Flying with the Owl” starting Fall 2018. All the ones, who enjoy real Live music played by musicians that master their instruments virtuously and stylesavy with energetic delight, will be more than happy with The Beauty of Gemina.
POLAR CIRCLES www.polarcircles.ch Video – Go it Alone (Live) Album: All in the Golden Afternoon, November 2017 Since the release of their first album 2014 Polar Circles have been gaining a lot of stage experiences. As support for known bands like the Stereophonics, with Gigs in Clubs like KIFF, Plaza, Les Docks or well-known festivals like Stars in Town, Summerstage and Rock Oz’Arènes. The Band is currently touring through Switzerland with the “Greenfield Foundation Tour”.
MAREY
www.mareymusic.ch
Video – Love (Live) Album: Save Animals Eat People, 2018 MAREY, consisting of Songwriter Maryam Hammad (vocals and guitar) und musician Aurèle Louis (cello and bass). The duo is playing together since October 2015: from Basel to Zurich, from Fribourg to Bern the two mesmerise with their unique music creations consisting of guitar, cello and vocals. At bigger events MAREY play with Band (Sacha Ruffieux, Julien Revilleud at the lead guitar and Luigi Galati on the drums).
BO KATZMANN
www.bokatzman.ch
Video – Fly High Album: The Truth, September 2017 "BO KATZMAN & THE CAT PACK", with that name BO KATZMAN and his longtime band start anew. Not long ago they recorded their album „THE TRUTH“ (released on the 1st September 2017 at PHONAG RECORDS). With joy and passion the fulltime musicians present their first single “Fly High” as well as all the other songs on their album in various Swiss clubs.
FLORIAN SUMMER www.floriansummer.ch Video – Badi by Max Frisch Album: Poolboy, August 2018 Florian Summer makes fresh Electro-Pop in Swiss dialect. Together with his friends Marco Steiner (drums) & Markus Suter (bass / keys), Florian Summer (vocals / guitar) brings the feeling of a day at the beach on stage. The songs were written when Florian Summer was travelling. „Rimini“ was created in a Bungalow in Thailand, „Französisch“ in the jungle of Borneo.
SOPHIE DE QUAY & THE WAVEGUARDS www.sophiedequayandthewg.com Video – Perfect Young Lady Album: Drop the Mask, March 2018 In only 2 years they released an EP and an album, travelled through Lebanon, Rumania, New York, Switzerland and France, where they played with French superstar Patrick Bruel at the Caribana Festival. Sophie de Quay & The WaveGuards keep touring to meet their continuously growing Fan Base.
DREAMSHADE
www.dreamshade.ch
Video – Where my Heart belongs Album: Vibrant, December 2016 The band toured through Europe and Asia, played sold out shows and at several festivals. By the end of 2016 their latest album “Vibrant” was released, which not only climbed the iTunes Charts of Europe, but USA and
Australia too. In 2018 the band is rocking stages and for the first time at the Greenfield Festival.
FINAL STORY www.finalstory.ch Video - Fall Album: Carpathia, December 2015 Songs with a message, clever songwriting and unique voices. With these traits have Final Story won over the jury and the Greenfield Festival Band contest. With their first album "Carpathia" the band has played at several clubs and numerous festivals in Switzerland, as well as the Greenfield Festival in Interlaken.
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS
JOHANNES OERDING (DE)
www.johannesoerding.de Video – Hundert Leben Album: Kreise, May 2017 Johannes Oerding is one of the best German Acts to date. In his hometown Hamburg the singer fills the Barclaycard Arena easily, which handles an audience of 12'000 people. His Fan Base in Switzerland keeps growing. In October 2017 he made stop at the Kaufleuten in Zurich and keeps touring with his latest album "Kreise".
MICHAEL PATRICK KELLY (IRL) www.michael-patrick-kelly.com Video - iD Album: iD, June 2017 Michael Patrick "Paddy" Kelly, the most famous member of the Kelly Family, is now known as a renowned Singer-
Songwriter. After a break of 7 years his album “iD” was released in 2017. After a wonderful appearance at the Energy Air 2017 in the Stade de Suisse in Bern his two tour dates in Switzerland were sold out (Volkshaus, Samsung Hall) and many other successful gigs followed like Summerstage 2018.
THE WEIGHT (AT) www.theweightrock.com Video - Trouble Album: Keep Turning, June 2017 Dirty, hard, blues dripping guitar riffs, heavy bass, powerful drums und a massive voice, that has become pretty seldom
- welcome THE WEIGHT. Their video for the single "Trouble" has received a lot of praise and good reviews. For example by Swiss newspaper 20 Minuten. They played at known stages like Blue Balls Festival, Summerstage and Blues Rock Festival. In October 2018 the band opened for iconic band Status Quo in the Hallenstadion in Zurich.
NITS (NL) www.nits.nl Video – love locks Album: angst, September 2017 With over 40 years in the business NITS tackle every stage without a problem. With their newest album “angst“ they wowed their longtime fan base as well as new listeners alike. With the ability to keep reinventing themselves and their convincing 23rd album they are definitely on everyone’s Must-See List. With their variety, dynamic, virtuosity and message filled lyrics they can enchant the audience. EISBRECHER (DE) www.eis-brecher.com Video – Zwischen Uns Album: Ewiges Eis, October 2018 Unmistakably crafted in their home turf in Munich the Eisbrecher are the flagship of the so called “Neue Deutsche Härte”. For now over 15 years the Band navigates in between shipping channels of this music genre. Their Tour for the album Sturmfahrt Ende 2017, had many Sold out shows across Germany. In 2018 celebrated Festival shows presented themselves on the bands calendar like Mera Luna Festival, Graspop Metal Meeting, SummerBreeze, NovaRock, Greenfield as well as Deichbrand. For 2019 many great appearances will happen like Wacken Open Air.
WARDRUNA www.wardruna.com Video - Helvegen New Album: Skald, November 2018 Wardruna is a Norwegian Band, which dedicates themselve to the creation of musical transmission of nordic cultural and spiritual traditions. With the oldest nordic instruments and Versmassen, the lyrics in norwegian, nordic and proto- nordic language, Wardruna wants to give the everlasting ideas and wisdoms of the past a new voice. In the last few years Wardruna has reached a bigger audience by their musical engagement in the series “Vikings”. Their last legendary show in Switzerland was sold out almost immediately.
DIE PRINZEN (DE)
www.dieprinzen.de
Video Album: Familienalbum, May 2015 With over 6 million sold records, 16 Gold- and 6 Platin albums, two Echo-Music-Awards and numerous other Prizes they are one of the most successful German Pop bands. They have charmed over 5 million people since playing live concerts starting 1991.
DIETER THOMAS KUHN (DE) www.dieterthomaskuhn.de Video Album: Im Auftrag der Liebe - Live, December 2015 Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band approaches Schlager in a respectful way while honoring it with rebellious Rock – Attitude (Main-Netz.de). A try at an explanation for the phenomenon Dieter Thomas Kuhn. All the shows in Switzerland by the iconic band were practically sold out.
ABBA GOLD (DE/UK) www.abbagold.de Video They are iconic, they are immortal and people worldwide know their songs: ABBA – one of the biggest pop bands of all times – lives! In an energetic Live-Show „ABBA
GOLD – The Concert Show“ brings the unforgotten Songs by Agnetha, Anni-Frid, Björn and Benny true to the original back on stage and will bring happiness to the audience! Just last year the ensemble played over 70 times solely in Germany for people of all ages.
URBAN ARTISTS
FLER (DE) www.msk-live.de/acts/fler
Video - Slowmotion Album: Flizzy, March 2018 No other Rapper in Germany engraved the genre more precisely! What started with the album VIBE, continued with
EPIC and was perfectioned with his latest release FLIZZY. FLER keeps giving the direction. If the Lyrics of his Number One Albums VIBE und EPIC were already reduced to its Essence without seeming spartanic, Fler uses his skills from the last 15 years in his rap career and enriches Street- Trap with new Flows for Flizzy.
TA’SHAN (CH) www.tashanmusic.com
Video - Comfie Single: Foodie, July 2018 Ta’Shan, Bernese with Indian Roots, is the incarnation of cool. BBC Radio 1 named her one of the most promising
female Newcomers in Europe. Being just at the beginning of her musical career, the young sensation has already accumulated an impressive following thanks to singles like «High» and «Remember», as well as her Movement #BombayMami. She opened for Acts like Ryan Leslie, Nelly, Sean Paul and Lil John in Switzerland.
LANDRO (CH) www.landro.ch
Video - Holunderblüetesirup Album: Nostalgia, August 2018 LANDRO, from Biel, turns heads the first time back in 2017 with his «Havanna EP». On it is his biggest hit to date
«Holunderblüetesirup», that almost the whole country of Switzerland can sing to. A few concerts follow and some singles. Now LANDRO has finished his Debut album «Nostalgia» and delivers his very personal «Coming of Age»-Story.
OTTO NORMAL (DE)
www.otto-normal.com Video – Der ich bin Album: Wieder Wir, May 2018 The band „Otto Normal“ from Freiburg, Germany cannot be compared to a normal generic person, like their name suggests it. Musically the sextet move in between a wide spectrum of Hip-Hop Beats, Pop Sounds and Electro Elements paired with clever Lyrics. That works! With over 200 concert in the last 5 years in Switzerland and Germany the band has experience and knows how to deliver a great show and make the audience move.
. FREEZY (CH) www.freezy.ch
Video – Havana Club Album: Us de Vorstadt, August 2016 With «Runawaykids» (2013) Freezy was able to set a good foundation and a strong statement in the Rap Scene. In
Spring 2016 Freezy supported together with Bobby Brookz their label colleague Mimiks on his «C.R.A.C.K»-‐Tour on Swiss stages. Parallel he has been working intensely on his second album «Us de Vorstadt», which was released in August 2016. It showed a mature Freezy, with honest lyrics, where he talked from his heart and still keeps being the heartthrob for all the Girls – or maybe exactly because of that.
ALI (CH) www.ali7000.ch Video – EROL Album: EROL, October 2017 «EROL», that was ALIs fathers name, who was extremely proud of everything his offspring did in his last remaining years therefore ALI dedicates his creation to him. Content wise the artist from Chur, moves between self-critical problem-solving and absolute High-class-Rap. He opened himself to musical experiments and started to be himself without trying. Thanks to a dramaturgy the listener can infiltrate deeply into ALIs World and deal with the artists thoughts on a high level.
LCONE (CH) www.lcone.ch Video – Bäumli Album: Aaaschiss, April 2018 LCone is the Peach Weber of the Rap Scene and has been rapping since 2008 and has received attention with his clever lyrics. His first big moment achieved the young man from Lucerne in 2015, together with ALI and SAD. Their
Kollabo-Album «Inoue» was successfully on Number 10 of the Swiss Album Charts. That songwriting is his forte, he proved with his impressive win at Bonker Inferno, the biggest Swiss Accapella Rap Battle. With «Aaaschiss» he released his long awaited Debut album, which contains 12 tracks and shows many facets. The modern Beats carry the diverse lyrics perfectly and you’ll be entertained.
CHABEZO (DE) www.chabezo.ch Video – S’Allerledschde Pete is a Rapper from Freiburg, who found his home Berlin. 2019 he will push his solo project with the Pseudonym Chabezo. For everyone who knows Chabezo, can guarantee that as a Solo he will tour with the right crew. Drummer, Bassist, Guitarist, Backvocalist and samples delivered and served with fresh Rap rhymes. His Live-Show moves between digital Sound Design and analog honesty. And with his Freestyle-Skills he will be able to reach all kinds of people.
GLB (CH) www.facebook.com/GLB.official Video – Wake Up Alone With their album „Turn Up“ GLB fire a musically potent firework with their self-interpretation of Urban Pop, Rap and World music. GLB is more than just a Combo – much more
soul, passion and rhythm! No Wonder that „Turn Up started as Number 5 on the Swiss Charts. Internationally the musicians are represented on the waves playlist for the Hollywood indie film “Glass Jaw”.