Festspiele Gmunden, Kino Ebensee

It was the first concert after quite sometime and therefor I couldn’t wait to be back on the road!!!We’ve never been an opening act for a Festival before so you can imagine how excited I was. We started off calmly and with a good mood from the trainstation in Vienna. It is a beautiful trainride to Ebensee, the train runs along the lake and you know how much I like water : )!

We got there and after a tiny nap we went straight to the venue. It is a charming place with a lot of charming people! Mathias and I were waiting for the rest of our gang who arrived by car and we waited waited waited...it turned out that there was a misunderstanding regarding the soundcheck-time. So got a little nervous, I mean the important thing is that they do come even if it’s a little late...so after a while Ingrid, Hans, Fabian and Martin got here and everybody tried to be as quick as possible...soundchecks can be difficult sometimes, there is a lot going on, everyone can get kind of nervous or tensed sometimes especially when you’re pressed for time. There were three interviews scheduled before the concert – it was crazy – we were soundchecking and from the soundcheck straight to the interviews – from the interviews straight to the opening speech, where mathias dedicated our concert to Gisela : ) (the oldest paddlesteamer that is still rocking the Traunsee) – from the official part straight to the dressing room – a couple of breaths and warm-ups and from there on the stage!!!!The good thing about a tight schedule like that is that you can’t really get extremely nervous because you’re constantly busy, so we entered the stage with a smile on our faces and ready to play!

The audience created an exciting silence that made me speechless, it was magical and I would like to thank everyone who came out that night and shared this journey with us!!!Thank you Jutta Skokan for inviting us to this wonderful Festival!!!!WHAT AN AUDIENCE - I hope we’ll meet again soon!I went to bed happy and so excited that I couldn’t fell asleep although I enjoyed a couple of beers from the most charming bartenders ever!I woke up the next morning tired and with a very exciting hairdo : )!We hopped back on the train and I spent the next day back in Vienna drinking coffee out of my original pottery from Gmunden (that we got as a present), thinking about the concert, eating, sleeping and watching Billy Wilder movies!!!!

I see you soon, yours Lia!

The Event:
Festspiele Gmunden (A), Kino Ebensee