Bard meeting
The Bardentreffen is a three-day open-air music festival that takes place every summer in Nuremberg . It starts on the first Friday of the Bavarian summer vacation. Entry to all venues is traditionally free. It took place for the first time on the 400th anniversary of the death of the Meistersinger Hans Sachs in 1976 . The nine stages of the individual event locations extend over the entire historic old town . In the early years, political protest and love songs dominated the content, after which it developed more strongly into a multi-cultural festival. To celebrate the 40th anniversary, the event was extended by one day in 2015 and began on Thursday evening, July 30, 2015.
The city of Nuremberg and sponsors bear the costs. Bards , d. H. Songwriters and bands from all over the world, including often young and still unknown talents, appear on several stages. Furthermore, a lot of musicians and bands play in the entire city center. With an average attendance of 200,000, the Bardentreffen is one of the most famous and popular festivals of its kind.
In terms of content, a distinction is made between traditional music, trends and experiments . Are represented stylistically singer-songwriter , singer-songwriter and world music . The main criteria are your own songs and vocals, pure instrumental groups, cover and tribute bands are not considered.
The special thing about this festival is the mixture of bands from the official festival program, which appear on the nine stages, and the many unknown artists who are spread over the entire old town. Within the old town of Nuremberg, anyone who feels called to perform can perform during the festival. In the Karolinenstraße there especially for this purpose a small stage with no fixed program.
Venues
Venues from previous years:
- Main market with the main stage (since 2001)
- Lorenzer Platz (behind St. Lorenz )
- Sebalder Platz (behind St. Sebald )
- Island of Schütt ; the children's program takes place here on Saturday and Sunday
- Catherine ruins
- Kreuzigungshof in the Heilig-Geist-Spital
- Flea market (since 2001)
- KulturGarten (in the Künstlerhaus , since 2012)
- Burgtheater (since 2016)
Former venues:
- Burggraben (main stage up to and including 2000)
- Klarissenplatz (only on Fridays in 2006 and 2007)
Known participants (selection)
- Alan Stivell
- Anne Clark
- Anne Haigis
- Arlo Guthrie
- Arthur Rosenbauer
- Barbara Thalheim
- Billy Bragg
- Calexico
- Christoph Suess
- Donnie Munro
- Eliana Burki
- Faber
- Fanfare Ciocărlia
- Fiddler's Green
- Geiss Haejm
- Guðrið Hansdóttir
- Günter Stössel
- Heinz-Rudolf Kunze
- Ignis Fatuu
- Joan Armatrading
- Bad luck
- Klaus location
- Klaus Karl-Kraus
- Konstantin Wecker
- Display cases
- LaBrassBanda
- Leningrad cowboys
- Lüül
- Mark Gillespie
- Mathilde Santing
- Max prose
- Mick Flannery
- Steve Gibbons
- The Cat Empire
- Thomas Felder
- Tom Haydn
- Walter Mossmann