The strays
| The strays | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Music from the Middle Ages |
| founding | 1994 |
| Website | http://www.streuner.de/ |
| Current occupation | |
| "Pinto the Shepherd" aka Carsten Hickstein | |
| "Rabe" alias Miriam Petzold | |
Spanish lute, song |
"Don Martino (Umberto)" aka Martin Seifert |
Lute, bass, vocals |
"Roland le Franzose" alias Roland Kempen |
Die Streuner are a medieval band from Bonn that has existed since 1994 and performs at medieval markets, castle festivals and knight games .
style
The quintet mainly plays medieval tavern music . Among other things, they are regularly represented at the Festival Medieval Fantasy Spectaculum and the Kaltenberg knight tournament . The repertoire extends from songs from six centuries on medieval Sauf- and Rauf music , old folk songs, drinking and Pfaff songs to original compositions. The lyrics of their songs are mainly German, some pieces are in French or English. Text templates come from some famous authors, u. a. by Friedrich Schiller , François Villon , Erich Kästner , Fritz Graßhoff , Heinrich Heine , Clemens Brentano or Wilhelm Busch . The arrangement mostly comes from the strays themselves, when they add music to texts that do not spring from their pen.
For the first time Miriam Petzold and Roland Kempen performed together under the name Die Streuner in 1994 at Satzvey Castle . Then Martin Seifert, later Carsten Hickstein and finally Matthew Rouse completed the group to form a quintet.
All records were released on the Emmuty Records label. The producer is Roland Kempen. Since 2009 the strays have an official fan club, the Wild Journeyman . Since the end of 2018, the strays have had another official fan club, the Krugschwenker.
Malleus
The twelve-piece band Malleus is a co-project of the Streuner and the medieval band A La Via and reinterprets medieval melodies by adding bagpipes, violins and harp with drums, bass, keyboards and electric guitars.
Discography
- 1998: Wine, Woman and Singing (Label: Emmuty Records / Distribution: Soulfood Music)
- 2000: Schnorrer, Penner, weird fools (Emmuty Records / Soulfood Music)
- 2002: Prayer of a minstrel (Emmuty Records / Soulfood Music)
- 2002: Malleus (EP, Emmuty Records)
- 2004: Fürsten in Lumpen und Loden (Emmuty Records / Soulfood Music)
- 2007: Fau (Emmuty Records / Soulfood Music)
- 2009: The strays never sound sweeter (Emmuty Records)
- 2011: Hurray, finally!
- 2014: listen! Pour out (Emmuty Records)
- 2019: 25 (Emmuty Records)
Web links
- Works by and about Die Streuner in the catalog of the German National Library
- The strays