Martin Schütz (folk musician)

Martin Schütz (born January 24, 1960 ) is a Swiss organ player and composer from the Swiss canton of Bern. He plays mainly in the Bernese style of the traditional Ländler .

Act

Schütz's most important own composition is a Scottish and is called Der Chines . The melody is influenced by Chinese, but has mostly typical Swiss elements.

He was a long-time member of the now no longer officially existing Länderbuebe Biel , also called Schwyzerörgeliquartett Biel .

In 1998 he founded a new country band under the name Bumerang . His teammates are former music students of his. These are Wally Schneider from Koppigen, Chrigu Freiburghaus from Murten, Christian Wyss from Zurich and Stefan Schwarz from Lommiswil. As with the Länderbuebe Biel, Schütz also tends to experiment here without neglecting the traditional Länders. The 5 musicians also took hits, hits, blues, chansons, Russian folk dances and mood music with or without singing in their repertoire. In addition to the common instruments of Swiss orchestra, accordion and piano , depending on the style, guitar , electric bass and G- banjo are also played.

Boomerang (highlights)

• In addition to numerous radio and television appearances, they released three sound carriers. They can also be heard regularly on the music channel Musikwelle 531 .
• They composed a title song for the 75th anniversary of the Lauberhorn race in Wengen and were allowed to premiere it at the 2005 event.
• They performed at the relaunch of the aforementioned DRS music wave and at the Unspunnen Festival in 2006.
• As part of the 5th Swiss Cheese Awards , they were asked to compose a theme song. This was performed at the award ceremony for this event in Huttwil .

Web links

• Martin Schütz on the website of the Boomerang formation