Musicians regular table
Musicians get-together or music at the landlord is a meeting of musicians that takes place at times announced in advance . In Austria a statement by the musicologist Franz Eibner (1914–1986) applies: “The inn is the college of folk music” .
definition
The word Musikantenstammtisch (also "singer and musicians regular table") means that on certain dates or on any previously announced dates, folk musicians come together in a certain inn to play with each other. Everyone can take their instrument with them and play with other groups or sing along. Since folk music is often structured according to known schemes, this is usually also possible with unknown melodies, and random groups can form, which are able to perform flawless music. Since many songs are well known, in the vocal area it is no problem to connect actors and random visitors.
Everything that the musicians like to play is made and sung, there is no program, everyone can choose freely from the available repertoire, but traditional folk music is usually preferred. Excursions into popular music, even into jazz standards are possible. The times of individual musicians appear mostly automatically. Often, however, there are more musicians present than listeners. The performances are free.
Stubete (Switzerland)
The term Stubete is generally used in Switzerland for folk musicians' meetings. The expression “Musikantenhöck” (Höck from Swiss German squat = sit) is less common. Many innkeepers make their bars available for regular musicians' get-togethers, as they are interested in preserving folk music as a traditional tradition .
history
In Switzerland there since the 1960s Stubete as a combination of folk music concert and free music. The Österreichisches Volksliedwerk ( Austrian Folksong Association) asked for such a regulars' table for the first time (around 1980) in Vienna, which became a popular meeting place, especially for the employees and fellow thinkers of the Volksliedwerk. Hermann Härtel (Steirisches Volksliedwerk) made it a principle for promoting folk music. In 1981 he started the music campaign at the landlord and then awarded special restaurants with the "musician-friendly restaurant" certificate. This principle spread quickly across the Alpine countries. In Vienna this is organized and organized by the Österreichisches Volksliedwerk. In Carinthia the project has been called Singing and Playing at the Landlord since 1993 , in Salzburg there has been the Salzburger Musikantenwirt since 1991 , in Vorarlberg Volksmusig am Wirt .
In the meantime there is the singer regulars table, folk music regulars table, Wienerlied regulars table, harmonica regulars table, singing round, musicians' early pints, yodel regulars table, drone music regulars table, dance regulars table, regulars tables for folk or folk music. Other names for it are Stubete in Switzerland , Hoangart (Heimgarten) or Funny Eicht in Upper Austria , Hoagascht in Bavaria , Huangart in Tyrol and South Tyrol . There are other activities in southern Germany. Styria can thus call itself a pioneer of a new form of musical encounters. Today there are around 700 musical events in this state every year. Hermann Härtel has thus succeeded in opening up a “playing field” for musicians and singers and thus setting an antithesis to the exclusive use of folk music as a “concert event”. Several countries have their own songbooks that can be sung from together, such as Singing in the Wirtshaus , published by the Steirisches Volksliedwerk.
Innkeeper
The innkeepers make their restaurant available to the musicians' round tables free of charge or donate drinks and snacks to the musicians . In Styria, the implementation of the “Music at the Wirt” project began in cooperation with the Gastronomy Department of the Styrian Chamber of Commerce (e.g. awarding the title “Musicians-friendly restaurant”) and the Austrian Association of Organizers. As a result, there was such cooperation in all other Austrian federal states.