Midsummer Night's Songs
The Midsummer Night's Songs are a three-day open - air festival that has been held since 2016 in the former Dalheim monastery in the Westphalian district of Paderborn . On a weekend in June or July, three concerts are held in the courtyard every two years . The concerts are organized by the Dalheim Monastery Foundation . LWL State Museum for Monastery Culture in cooperation with the KulturBüro-OWL.
program
The festival program includes concerts from various genres, such as swing and jazz , rock , poetry and ballads, as well as music by songwriters . The festival concept mainly includes songs in the German mother tongue .
The following artists have already appeared in the Midsummer Night's Songs:
2016: Götz Alsmann and band, Roman Lob and guests
2017: Manfred Maurenbrecher and Stoppok, Felix Meyer and Wolf Maahn , Götz Alsmann with the Zucchini Sistaz and the Tiffany Ensemble
2018: Konstantin Wecker , Etta Scollo and Joachim Król , Götz Alsmann and band
2019: Klaus Lage , Zucchini Sistaz, Klaus Hoffmann
Venue
The Dalheim Monastery Foundation . LWL State Museum for Monastic Culture is one of the 18 museums of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL) and Germany's only state museum for monastic cultural history. It is jointly supported by the LWL and the Dalheim Monastery Foundation and is located in the 800 year old former Dalheim Monastery .
The concerts take place in the baroque courtyard of the former Augustinian canons . Surrounded by the impressive castle architecture of the complex, a total of 750 seats are created here.
Sponsors
The open-air festival summer night songs is funded by WestfalenWIND GmbH and VM VermögensManufaktur in 2019.