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The festival aufhOHRchen is the largest folk music festival in the Austrian state of Lower Austria .
Emergence
In 1992 Hubert von Goisern achieved a hit with his interpretation of a traditional dance melody with Hiatamadl . As a result, folk music and a new approach to traditional folk song became known to a wider audience. At the same time, a young generation began to be interested in the archives of Lower Austrian folk songs and to rediscover old melodies. To give space to these rediscoveries and reinterpretations, the festival aufhOHRchen was founded in 1993 . From the beginning, the aim of the festival has not only been to preserve what has been handed down, but to develop the music further and leave room for experimentation.
At the end of April 1993 the first folk music festival aufhOHRchen took place in Tulln and St. Pölten. In 1994 aufhOHRchen moved to Hollabrunn and St. Pölten. From this year the festival was organized with local associations and groups, schools and the population. In the meantime, over 1000 participants take part in each festival and attract between 5,000 and 10,000 visitors. The festival is organized by Folk Culture Lower Austria .
Festival modules
The festival is made up of several components: street music, pub music, church services, symposium and the open-air "AufhOHRchen", in which all the music groups at the venue take part. The festival usually lasts three and a half to five days and consists of 20 to 30 partial events, the highlights are published annually on CD. In cooperation with Radio Niederösterreich there is a weekly radio program called aufhOHRchen . In addition to the hiking festival at various locations, another aufhOHRchen event has been held once a year in the Festspielhaus St. Pölten since 2002 .
Locations
- 1993 Tulln and St. Pölten
- 1994 Hollabrunn
- 1995 Waidhofen an der Ybbs
- 1996 Kirchschlag in the Bucklige Welt
- 1997 gaming
- 1998 Zwettl
- 1999 St. Valentin (Lower Austria)
- 2000 Zwettl and Kirchschlag in the Bucklige Welt
- 2001 Mödling
- 2002 Scheibbs
- 2003 Poysdorf
- 2004 Neulengbach
- 2005 Kirchberg an der Pielach
- 2006 Horn and Altenburg Abbey
- 2007 Rossatz-Arnsdorf and Spitz
- 2008 Grafenwörth
- 2009 Pöggstall
- 2010 Retz
- 2011 Great Gerungs
- 2012 deficiency
- 2013 Gloggnitz
- 2014 Sieghartskirchen
- 2015 Allentsteig, Schwarzenau, Echsenbach and Göpfritz an der Wild
- 2016 Lilienfeld
- 2017 Pöchlarn and Ybbs
- 2018 Wiener Neustadt
- 2019 Waidhofen an der Thaya
literature
- Folk culture of Lower Austria : tradition in motion . Radinger Print, Atzenbrugg 2006, ISBN 3-901820-34-5
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadt & Land ready for the 'aufhOHRchen'-Festival , Niederösterreichische Nachrichten, May 8, 2018
- ↑ aufhOHRchen hikes in 2019 to Waidhofen an der Thaya website Volkskultur Niederösterreich