Fiddler's Green

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Fiddler's Green
Fiddler's Green at the 2015 Hexentanz Festival
Fiddler's Green at the 2015 Hexentanz Festival
General information
origin Erlangen , Germany
Genre (s) Folk rock , folk punk
founding 1990
Website www.fiddlers.de
Founding members
Ralf "Albi" Albers
Guitar, mandolin , banjo , flute
Peter Pathos (until 2006)
Rainer Schulz
Eric Obst (until 1995)
Dr. Robert Oppel (until 1991)
Current occupation
Vocals, guitar, Irish bouzouki
 Ralf "Albi" Albers
bass
 Rainer Schulz
Stefan Klug (since 1991)
Violin, singing
 Tobias Heindl (since 2000)
Drums, percussion
Frank Jooss (since 2001)
Vocals, guitar
 Patrick "Pat" Prziwara (since 2006)
former members
violin
 Tobias Rempe (1991-1995)
violin
 Tobias Schäfer (1995-2000)
Drums
 Wolfram Kellner (1995-2001)

Fiddler's Green is a Founded in 1990, German folk-rock - band from Erlangen .

history

From the independent band X-Rated and the duo Willi and Albi (guitar folk with North American characteristics), the group Irish Duo emerged in early 1990 with Ralf Albers, Peter Pathos and Rainer Schulz , which with three other members soon received the name Fiddler's Green and at Erlangen Newcomer Festival in November 1990 immediately took second place. The first album Fiddler's Green was then created in August 1992 .

In 2001, the drummer Wolfram Kellner switched to the Erlangen-based band JBO , with which he is still active today.

In the summer of 2004 took place on Hoheneck castle the 1,000. The band's concert took place, which was recorded on two DVDs and a live CD.

On April 30, 2006 Peter Pathos played his last concert with Fiddler's Green. He left the band to work on other musical projects as Peter Kafka . His successor Patrick Pat Prziwara was presented on May 17, 2006 at a concert at the Kammerspiele in Ansbach. In January 2007 the album Drive Me Mad was released. After a year and a half touring, the band recorded another album in the summer of 2008, which was released in January 2009 under the title Sports Day at Killaloe , which was followed by another year and a half touring. The tour included appearances at well-known metal festivals.

To mark the 20th anniversary of the band, two anniversary concerts were held at the Erlangen E-Werk on March 18 and 19, 2010, at which the band appeared as their own supporting act and played an acoustic set. Both concerts were recorded and a summary was published on the live CD and DVD Folk's Not Dead . In 2011, Fiddler's Green played several support gigs for In Extremo . In the same year, the studio album Wall of Folk was released, which reached number 24 in the German album charts. With the studio album Winners and Boozers , released in 2013 , the band reached number 7 in the German album charts and stayed in the top 100 for five weeks. The subsequent tour through Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Switzerland was the most successful in the band's history. Among other things, the band performed at the Kölner Tanzbrunnen at the anniversary festival of the band Schandmaul in front of 12,000 spectators.

In 2015, for the 25th anniversary of the band, the compilation 25 Blarney Roses was released , which reached number 30 in the German charts. On the subsequent 25 Blarney Roses - the anniversary tour , special guests such as Eric Fish performed ; appeared as a recording of the concert in October 2015 in Cologne , the CD / DVD 25 Blarney Roses - Live in Cologne. In 2016 the band released the album Devil's Dozen. The album Heyday followed in 2019.

style

Fiddler's Green writes and plays pieces of music in the style of - so called by the band - Speedfolk or Irish folk and folk rock. In some cases, elements from other musical styles such as ska , punk , metal and reggae are also adopted. The frequent use of the offbeat is characteristic . The band name is derived from the Irish name for the sailors' paradise.

The band itself calls their genre Irish Speedfolk. In addition to original compositions, Irish jigs , reels and traditionals are played.

Music festival

Fiddlers Green have been organizing the Shamrock Castle Festival in Franconian Switzerland since 2009 . On August 15, 2009 the first concert took place in the castle ruins of Waischenfeld . Jägersburg Castle in Eggolsheim has been the venue since 2011 ; In 2016 the festival took place over two days for the first time.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
On and on
  DE 61 03/17/1997 (3 weeks)
Drive Me Mad
  DE 74 01/26/2007 (1 week)
Sports Day at Killaloe
  DE 52 01/23/2009 (2 weeks)
Folk's Not Dead (live)
  DE 76 08/20/2010 (1 week)
Wall of Folk
  DE 24 09/30/2011 (1 week)
Winners & Boozers
  DE 7th 08/09/2013 (5 weeks)
25 Blarney Roses
  DE 30th 02/27/2015 (2 weeks)
Devil's Dozen
  DE 22nd 04/11/2016 (1 week)
Heyday
  DE 7th 03/15/2019 (3 weeks)
  CH 70 March 17, 2019 (1 week)

Albums

  • 1992: Fiddler's Green
  • 1993: Black Sheep
  • 1995: King Shepherd
  • 1996: Make Up Your Mind (EP)
  • 1997: On and On
  • 1998: Spin Around
  • 2000: Another Sky
  • 2002: Folk Raider
  • 2003: Nu Folk
  • 2007: Drive Me Mad
  • 2009: Sports Day at Killaloe
  • 2011: Wall of Folk
  • 2013: Winners & Boozers
  • 2016: Devil's Dozen
  • 2019: Heyday

Compilations

  • 2015: 25 Blarney Roses

Live albums

  • 1992: Fiddler's Green
  • 1999: stagebox
  • 2005: Celebrate!
  • 2010: Folk's Not Dead
  • 2012: Acoustic Pub Crawl
  • 2015: 25 Blarney Roses - Live in Cologne
  • 2020: Acoustic Pub Crawl II - Live in Hamburg

Video albums

  • 2005: Celebrate!
  • 2005: Jubilate!
  • 2010: Folk's Not Dead
  • 2015: 25 Blarney Roses - Live in Cologne

Music videos

  • 2008: Bugger Off
  • 2009: Highland Road (live)
  • 2011: Victor and His Demons
  • 2012: Yindy
  • 2013: Life Full Of Pain - Live at Summer Breeze 2010 (live)
  • 2013: The More The Merrier
  • 2014: We Don't Care
  • 2015: Take Me Back
  • 2015: A Night in Dublin (live)
  • 2015: Solding Wife (live)
  • 2015: A Bottle a Day (live)
  • 2016: Down
  • 2016: Perfect Gang
  • 2016: Bottoms Up
  • 2016: Bad Boys
  • 2016: Boat on the River
  • 2017: Mr. Tickle
  • 2017: We Won't Die Tonight (contains material from Long Live Ned Devine )
  • 2017: Here We Go Again
  • 2018: No Anthem
  • 2019: One Fine Day
  • 2019: Cheer Up

Concert videos

2015: Live At Pinkpop 2015

swell

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE CH

Web links

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