Kiwanis Club Wels - Charity concert 

Coming home - for me playing in my home town is extremely challenging, I am even more nervous than usual and as for now I am kind of living at Schloss Puchbeg - it really felt like actually playing at home : ). mathias called me from the train and told me that Ingrid hurt her shoulder, it was inflamed and she was in a lot of pain and could hardly move her arm!!!!!!!
I picked up mathias, Ingrid and Mario up at the train station in Wels and we drove straight to the beautiful Castle in Puchberg (as ...

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Puchberg (A), Schloss Puchberg bei Wels - my poet's love

Ittinger Pfingstkonzerte 2016  - show your true colours - let's go too far…: )

Mister Oliver Schnyder, the artistic director a n d incredible pianist was organizing this festival placed in a former monastery in Ittingen. A place of pure beauty and peace developed over 900 years!!!Unbelievable!!!And since 1977 it is a foundation for culture and education. This Sunday „Pfingstsonntag“ we had the pleasure to perform inside these magical walls. Can you believe it? On  my way to the sound check I walked by a sheep family with brown and white lambs…it was surreal…above it all the quote ...

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Ittingen (CH), Grosser Kreuzgarten/Remise - Winter Journey

Deep deep deep in the woods there is a place called Fornach…and Mister Walter Struger organizes concert abbonement with four concerts a year right there in the middle of nowhere and turns it into the place to be and the place to play. Charming „Wirtshaus Lohninger“ opens its doors for musicians all over the world and turns into a concert hall filled with an incredible audience full of energy.mathias and I arrived by train and Walter picked us up at the train station took us to Fornach and invited us into his home…a beautiful house surrounded by ...

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Fornach (A), Lohninger - my poet's love

I just got back home from beautiful Belgrade, feeling incredibly grateful for our moments in Serbia. I was so excited to be back, as I fell in love the last time we played there and again this wonderful country, this wonderful city generously welcomed us. The whole band met at Wien Mitte to take the train to Vienna Airport and it was so nice to travel all together because often Thomas Egger (our sound magician) is driving by car or sometimes everyone comes from different directions…but this time we all traveled together right from the start and together we ...

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Belgrad (SRB), Dom Omladine - Winter Journey

Oh what a beautiful town!!!It felt like traveling back in time…the incredible castle takes you right back to the Renaissance - unbelievable! Our venue of the night „Birdland“ is located right in the middle of this beautiful old town, at a corner of a tiny little street, you walk down the stairs and there you are - in the middle of the club surrounded by wonderful photographs of everyone who had played there!!! And I think eeeeveryone did : )! I felt blessed to get to be part of this special venue with all its history. Manfred Rehm and his team are ...

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Neuburg (DE), Birdland - my poet's love

"my poet's love" 

I love Budapest and the Opus Jazz Club. We played our Winterjourney at Opus two years ago and I was very much looking forward to be back. We had a special guest with us or I did : ) my friend Sarah from Amsterdam was visiting me and she decided to come along, yes yes yes! „To travel is to live“  (H.C. Andersen) and if its with people you love, one can only be truly grateful! My cold got a little better and sometimes I was able to breath through my nose : ), I continued with my medicine ...

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Budapest (HUN), Opus Jazz Club - my poet's love

"my poet's love"

It was the first days of spring in Vienna and let me tell you Vienna is the most beautiful in spring : ). We had a good rehearsal the day before our show and it was the first time that we played our „poet’s love“ with Mister Fabian Rucker. And it felt as if we had been playing these tunes together all along. For me it was an extremely challenging rehearsal as well as concert because it was the first time for me that I had really really bad cold while having rehearsals and concerts. Honestly I ...

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Vöcklabruck (A), Stadtsaal - my poet's love

„Rotfarb“ in Uznach is a very special venue with very special people aaaand very very special food!!! The Vienna Art Orchestra had played there many times and leading lady Barbara and mathias have known each other for quite some time. Thank you Barbara for the continuing trust and support! Our hotel was in Rapperswil (15 min by car from Uznach) and  I have to say this little town is absolutely charming. It has this „Riviera“ touch with the beautiful lake and the original old part of town. If you ever come to Switzerland I suggest you go there and just ...

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Uznach (CH), Rotfarb

mathias and I had a quite surprising start…we met at 6:45 at his place to help our man of sound Thomas Egger carry down everything we needed and hurried to the airport right after, when we got to the check in, they looked at us and told us that the flight we booked did not exist or was cancelled and somehow the information didn't reach us! It was very confusing but the bottom line was we were rebooked on the 6:55 flight with the rest of the gang, which had already left…thanks to mathias (he ...

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Chur (CH), Jazz Club Chur

To play at Porgy & Bess is always special to me…it is the place where everything started - where we played for the first time in 2013 and I remember it like it was yesterday. At this point thank you  to Christoph Huber! It was our 6th time to play at Porgy, it was the 6th of November and it was my birthday : )!It was a sunny and warm!!!November day and I even had time to go for a walk before soundcheck, get ready on the outside and inside for this night : )! I was so nervous and excited about spending ...

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Vienna (A), Porgy & Bess