Fiddle Michel
Fiedel Michel is a folk band that was one of the most influential German folk bands in the 1970s.
Band history
Fiedel Michel was founded in 1973 by Martin Hannemann ( guitar ), Michael Thaut ( violin ) and Thomas Kagermann ( fiddle ) in Münster . Before that, Hannemann and Thaut had played as a duo Ramblin Pitchforkers Irish folk pieces in the style of the Dubliners .
At the Folk Festival in Erlangen in the summer of 1973 the band had their first appearance together as Fiedel Michel. Since 1973 Fiedel Michel has published numerous long-playing records and often appeared in front of an audience. The band was one at this time, in the German-language folk music its heyday, the major German folk bands in Germany. In the meantime, Elke Herold and Monika Domin belonged to the band. In 1978 Kagermann founded the folk rock band Falckenstein parallel to Fiedel Michel .
In 1981 Fiedel Michel dissolved. Thaut made a career as a doctor of music therapist . Today he works as a neuro musicologist at the Center for Biomedical Music Research at Colorado State University in the USA . In 1982 Hannemann joined the folk rock band Celtic Brew , which was founded in 1979, and is still active in this group alongside his involvement with Fiedel Michel.
Since 1999, Fiedel Michel has performed occasionally again. In addition to Martin Hannemann and Thomas Kagermann, Michael Mick Franke played in the band. The CD Retrospective with old pieces was reissued in 1994 with exclusively historical material. Michael Franke died in 2001. From then on Hannemann and Kagermann appeared as a duo. The dulcimer player Monika Domin has been part of the band since 2015 .
repertoire
Fiedel Michel mainly play German-language folk songs and folk dances in a modern arrangement. The instruments are exclusively acoustic. Her repertoire also included poems from the 20th century, for example by Bertolt Brecht and Erich Kästner .
Discography (selection)
Albums
- Fiedel Michel (1974; autograph)
- Fiddle Michel No. 4 (1976; autogram)
- Live (1977; Stockfisch Records)
- From time to time (1978; Stockfisch Records )
- Fiedel Michel (1980; Stockfisch Records)
- Do You Know The Country (1981; Nature)
- The German Michel (Autograph)
Singles and EPs
- Fiddle Michel No. 2 (1974; autogram)
- Fiddle Michel No. 3 dances (1974; autograph)
Compilations
- Retrospective (1994; Autogram)
- It's Time (1998; Slow Motion Records)
Web links
- Homepage of the band
- Information about the band
- Fiedel Michel at Discogs (English)
- Fiedel Michel at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Dana Foundation: Short biography Michael Thauts ; accessed on November 23, 2010
- ↑ The band at fiedel-michel.de, accessed on September 24, 2017