International Street Music Festival Baden-Württemberg

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Audience and main stage at the 2015 festival

The International Street Music Festival Baden-Württemberg takes place annually on the Whitsun weekend in the Blooming Baroque in Ludwigsburg .

history

The Busquito’s , 2015

The festival took place for the first time in 2001 and then initially every two years. In 2007 they changed to an annual rhythm. The eleventh festival achieved a record attendance in 2014 with around 40,000 listeners. 40 bands or individual musicians show their art in the castle garden; In 2014 around ten times as many individual artists and groups applied for these 40 places. The artists come from different countries, including outside of Europe. The festival management tries to invite new musicians every year.

The competition winners are chosen exclusively by the audience. The five best placed will each receive a cash prize of 250 to 1500 euros. Otherwise no fees will be paid at the festival. Oboluse from the audience for the artists are welcome and welcome. Some artists earn some money during the day in the city with street music and at the same time promote their appearance at the festival.

The artistic level of many musicians is high. Groups like Cobario from Vienna, Carpe Noctem from Jena, and The Busquito’s (sic) from the Netherlands, the first, second and third place winners in 2014, consist of experienced professional musicians with classical training. Other artists impress with their inventiveness and originality, for example the one-man band by Paolo Sgallini, third place in 2015.

The street music festival 2020, which should have taken place from May 29th to 31st, was canceled due to the corona epidemic .

winner

The cat and the dog , the winners of 2019
Plaques of honor in the palace garden

At the entrance from the courtyard to the garden there is a monument to the winners in the form of a series of engraved stone slabs. Year after year, the winners are honored with such a roll of honor with a graphic portrait.

List of winners
year 1. 2. 3. 4th 5. source
2001 Gee Gee Kettel & Soluna Presteej Khuck Mongol
2003 Anderson briefcase Alex Jacobowitz Samba sambuca
2005 GlasBlasSing Quintet Mala Sangre Battle Toys
2007 Presteej Mark Gillespie feat. Thomas Drost Pertussis duo
2008 Mark Gillespie feat. Thomas Drost We Barrio Candela
2009 Timeless Barrio Candela We
2010 Microguagua Cobario Philadelphia
2011 Faela Philadelphia Cobario
2012 Microguagua Palo Santo Brassvolé
2013 Bandarra Street Orchestra Cobario Faela
2014 Cobario Carpe Noctem The Busquito's Palo Santo Microguaga
2015 El Flecha Negra Carpe Noctem Paolo Sgallini One Man Band Giovanni Bassano Style break
2016 Cobario Rikas Frederik Konradsen ZAP Jammin 'Johnny and the discofuckers feat
2017 Jingle Django Carpe Noctem Gap's Orchestra Frederik Konradsen Rikas
2018 Cobario Calle Mambo Gap's Orchestra Fezzmo Style break
2019 The cat and the dog Gap's Orchestra Screw yeti Sheet salad Ramm Tamm Tilda

Web links

Commons : International Street Music Festival Baden-Württemberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benjamin Beytekin: A time to make the Street Music Festival in Ludwigsburg . Stuttgarter Zeitung , May 18, 2013, accessed June 10, 2014
  2. ↑ a b Jürgen Schmidt: Record setting for musicians ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung , June 10, 2014, accessed on June 10, 2014
  3. ↑ Street music festival attracts 40,000 guests . Bietigheimer Zeitung , June 10, 2014, accessed June 10, 2014
  4. ↑ Jürgen Schmidt: Street musicians crack visitor record ( Memento from May 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung, May 29, 2012
  5. ↑ Busquito's website ( memento of October 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 10, 2014
  6. ↑ Homepage of Paolo Sgallini ( Memento of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 10, 2014
  7. ^ Michael Bosch: Events canceled until the end of August: Ludwigsburg is threatened with boredom. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. April 23, 2020, accessed May 9, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Honor plaques on site
  9. ↑ Cobario wins at the International Street Music Festival. In: Blooming Baroque Ludwigsburg. June 9, 2014, accessed June 26, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Street Music Festival 2015 - The winners have been announced. In: Blooming Baroque Ludwigsburg. May 25, 2015, accessed June 26, 2019 .
  11. ↑ The winners have been determined. In: Blooming Baroque Ludwigsburg. May 15, 2016, accessed June 26, 2019 .
  12. ↑ The winners have been determined. In: Blooming Baroque Ludwigsburg. June 4, 2017. Retrieved June 26, 2019 .
  13. ↑ The winners of the 2018 International Street Music Festival in the Blooming Baroque have been announced. In: Blooming Baroque Ludwigsburg. May 20, 2018, accessed June 26, 2019 .
  14. ↑ These are the 2019 winners . In: strassenmusikfestival.de. June 9, 2019, accessed June 11, 2019 .