Blue Bird Festival

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The Blue Bird (also Blue Bird Festival ) is an Austrian music festival that takes place annually in November at the Porgy & Bess jazz club in Vienna .

General

The Blue Bird Festival was founded in 2005 by the Vienna Songwriting Association . Over three days, around twelve artists perform in front of around 1,500 people. The musicians of the three-day indiefolk club festival come from home and abroad and mostly belong to genres such as indie folk , alternative country and singer-songwriter . In addition to established artists, unknown musicians also perform.

The Blue Bird Festival attaches great importance to artistic standards and loyalty to the audience. The cast and organization ensures media presence before and after the festival. Another reason is the generous interpretation of the term singer / songwriter - genres such as indiefolk, Americana, baroque pop, queer, new and anti-folk and many others all have a place at the Blue Bird Festival without losing its line. Another essential point is the inclusion of several Austrian acts in the lineup.

Artists who have performed so far have included Amanda Palmer , Patrick Wolf , Adam Green , Edwyn Collins , Giant Sand , Ariel Pink , Silver Mt. Zion , Villagers , Robyn Hitchcock , The Hidden Cameras , Gustav, Clara Luzia , Scott Matthew , Okkervil River , SoKo , Ed Harcourt , Sarah Jaffe, Lee Ranaldo, and Woven Hand .

history

In 2004 the Vienna Songwriting Association was founded. The founding members are the musicians Eva Woska and Daniel Mölksmith and the journalists Jenny Blochberger and Klaus Totzler . The cultural association was set up to hold an evening in his honor on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the death of all four musicians, Nick Drake , on November 25th. The event was called "Fruit Tree". There were 17 acts that evening. Porgy & Bess, known throughout Europe as a jazz club, was chosen as the venue. The musicians came mainly from Austria, but also from England and Ireland. Garish , Bernhard Eder, James Harries, Robert Rotifer and Son Of The Velvet Rat were among the musicians with whom the association is mostly on friendly terms to this day . The net profit was donated to the NGO Warchild .

From 2005 onwards, at the end of November, an initially small festival was established that was named Blue Bird. Once an evening took place in the Vienna scene, twice in the Gasthaus Vorstadt in Vienna-Ottakring, otherwise always in Porgy & Bess . The Blue Bird Festival lasts three days.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Fluch When the birds chirp in November , Der Standard , November 12, 2013
  2. ↑ Gerald C. Stocker: Songwriting-Traktor , The Gap , July 22, 2011
  3. ^ Blue Bird Festival 2011 , Music Information Center Austria , November 10, 2011
  4. ↑ Andreas Rauschal: The Hidden Cameras and Others at the "Blue Bird" : The big names in the scene and the unheard at the Festival of the Song , Wiener Zeitung , November 17, 2010
  5. ↑ Simon Hadler: Blue Bird: Vienna's most intimate festival , ORF.at, November 21, 2014
  6. ↑ Andreas Rauschal: Bluebird: No Auslasser , Wiener Zeitung, 25. November 2011
  7. ↑ Blue Bird Festival at Porgy & Bess , ORF morning journal , November 26, 2015
  8. ↑ Articles of Association | Vienna Songwriting Association. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 13, 2017 ; accessed on November 18, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.songwriting.at
  9. ↑ Gerald Schmickl: Music Festival: The blue bird from the fruit tree , Wiener Zeitung, November 13, 2014
  10. ^ Blue Bird Festival 2006 , Music Information Center Austria, November 20, 2006
  11. ↑ Samir H. Köck: Totzler's Festival for Singer-Songwriters , Die Presse , November 19, 2014