Donnerstag 15. Juli, 20:00 Uhr | Spitz Castle

Netnakisum "Alpine drama" & 5/8erl in Ehr'n - "Here we go"

Folk music from everywhere. String girls and Viennese soul, and: Meiner Seel’! Two wonderful ensembles, each for itself and in unison. New program!

Freitag 16. Juli, 20:00 Uhr | Spitz Castle

Wolfram Berger & Klezmer Reloaded - Extended Version - Criminal Carps

Stories from fictional and real places by Isaak Balshevis Singer to Groucho Marx about the trial against a fish, about this world’s contrasts, and about love—accompanied by music between shtetl and club. Premiere!

Samstag 17. Juli, 20:00 Uhr | Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche - Church Of Grey Friars

Maja Osojnik & Band feat. Schnittpunkt Vokal - "Čira Čara"

The Klangraum sounds and glows: a concert in several parts including acoustic and visual installations. A richly cast premiere in co-operation with Musik aktuell and Radio Ö1.

Mittwoch 21. Juli, 19:00 Uhr | Stift Göttweig

Bell.Voices

Llorenç Barber & Montserrat Palacios - "Bellconcert/Performance"

The bells in the tower of the monastery church and further bell plays—jingled by the Music Workshop’s Composer in Residence and participants: “Signa… et Labora” and “Transire”.

Evelyn Fink-Mennel & Nataša Mirković-De Ro - "Alpine-Balkan-Credos"

Vorarlberg meets Bosnia. Alpine-Balkan credo & vocal pleasure. Duo debut of the new Workshop head and her colleagues’ powerful voices.

Freitag 23. Juli, 19:00 Uhr | Stift Göttweig

Workshop Reprises

The Music Workshop’s great finale with the results from one week of musical friendly plays: gstanzl & dance, yodel & rap, choral & groove. In the idyllic garden of the Youth Hostel. Free admission

Samstag 24. Juli, 19:00 Uhr | Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche - Church Of Grey Friars

Erwin Steinhauer reads H. C. Artmann - "Dracula, Dracula"

“When reading good texts, I don’t see phrases, I see people.” (E. Steinhauer). Images, tales, music—infected by Eastern Europe. Bloody and blazing. A text of world literature quality accompanied by sounds of world music quality!

Sonntag 25. Juli, 16:00 Uhr | Weingut Zöhrer

Pietro Bianchi & Barbara Knopf "From the Alps southwards"

Two versatile artists, especially close to their audience in this atmospheric festival outlet. Music from the Italian part of Switzerland and beyond.

Mittwoch 28. Juli, 19:00 Uhr | Winzer Krems

Borderless Relationships

Paolo Angeli & Hamid Drake

An exciting dialogue between violoncello and drums. Rare sound combinations from two masters. Unpretentious virtuosity at the service of free exchange of thoughts.

Faíz Ali Faíz & Thierry "Titi" Robin

Two cheered at soloists of past years revisited. Pakistani qawwai singer and Breton string artist in an opulently cast, hymnal, and world-spanning encounter following the traces of Roma music.

Donnerstag 29. Juli, 18:00 Uhr | Winzer Krems

Rumble in the Jungle

Urbain Philéas & Famille Lélé

Wonderful diversity of languages and rhythms with the 10-head ensemble from La Reunion. Maloya and other traditional forms of music and dance, from the Mascarenes via Madagascar to Paris.

Keziah Jones

„When You hear Blue Funk, you say: Where are the other musicians? – but it´s only one guy…”

Staff Benda Bilili

Maybe the most unusual band of the past years—a group of former street musicians and social outcasts who played themselves from the parks around the Zoo of Kinshasa onto the world’s concert stages.

Freitag 30. Juli, 18:00 Uhr | Winzer Krems

Ritmos de Colombia

Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto

Indian flute (gaitas), drums and accordion—indigenous African and European elements from Columbia’s Atlantic coast.

Cimarrón

8-head ensemble of the Llanos Orientales, reaching from Columbia to Venezuela. Harp, bass, maracas, cajob, tamboras, and voice—at the service of the festive music joropo.

La Revuelta

Traditional chonta music at the marimba meets hip hop and funk from the urban jungle of Bogota. Accompanied by sounds from the Columbian Pacific coast as the finale of this exotic theme day.

Samstag 31. Juli, 18:00 Uhr | Winzer Krems

Distant sound

Nguyên Lê "Saiyuki"

The sensitive jazz guitarist in a trio with koto and tabla on the “trip to the West”. Trialogue of three artists from Vietnam, Japan and India, after a 16th century Chinese novel.

Sonagi Project feat. Okkyung Lee & Hahn Rowe

Charming percussions, between shamanistic heritage and contemporary inspirations, meets cello, violin, and samples in a new encounter with two Korean members of the New York avant-garde scene.

Hanggai Ensemble

Folk and rock music from Mongolia and a whiff of country & western in gay unison, presented by this young Beijing sextet. Larynx meets punk!

Sonntag 01. August, 17:00 Uhr | Winzer Krems

Wild ballads

Lyenn

A concert, which, like all the other exponents of this theme day, breaks up with and expands the common notion of the singer-songwriter. Innovative vocal performance, art music between the disciplines, and yet simply beautiful lyrical tales.

Vinicio Capossela

The magician who breaks up the borders of a song and with unique images creates worlds of demons, shadows, lost souls. The festival’s musically borderless finale!

Peter Nalitch & Friends

One of the – yet – rare performances of mister “Me is so Cool”. 3 million hits at his youtube video “gitar”!