Sepp Messner wind string

Sepp Messner Windschnur at the DINGSDO Folk Festival in Laion, May 2014

Sepp Messner Windschnur (born October 16, 1946 in Klausen as Josef Messner ) is a South Tyrolean dialect musician and master painter .

Musical career

Sepp Messner Windschnur began his career in the mid-1960s in the pop-rock group The Fellows . After their dissolution he founded the Steve's band . He also played with the then well-known group The Renegates . At this time the first LP was created .

In the 1970s Messner played souvenirs in the dance band and remembered his second profession, painting. As he turned to in the following years, his family and his newly founded company, he helped again in the band of Gufidaun out. From this collaboration the big band Eisacktaler Musikanten developed , which was founded by his brother. At the same time the idea arose to write humorous dialect texts and to pack them in quick rhythms. The banter singers were founded.

Since the mid-1980s, Messner only played for pleasure, without appearing. The songs scene Alto overtook him after long discussions into the studio where Af'n ball ( "On the Ball") was recorded for the first time. Messner, who from then on called himself “Windschnur” after the name of his home farm Sepp Messner, took part in the first Liederszene concert tour. He soon found his old musician friends and formed a band with them. Tours, radio and television appearances and a live CD followed. In 1994 the second CD "Live in Klausen" was recorded. Another four albums followed.