NACHT DER THÜRINGER JAZZMEILE

This year Kunstfest Weimar revives an old idea from audience in celebrating a night of jazz in five of the Nike Wagner’s era and joins its artists, guests and city’s bars.

DOGMA'N - BLUES IS ON FIRE

Hot blues party with Chicago, Texas & avantgarde blues

Four Thuringian musicians spent years accompany- ing amazing blues artists before they got together in 2004 to form Dogma'n. Chicago & Texas blues is what inspired them. Of course, they continue to work as back-up musicians, but they keep on indulging their love for this project and for the unique Frank Zappa as frequently as possible. Robert Boddin on bass comes from Weimar and plays with Bayon. The role of drummer is shared between Georg Lenhardt from Weimar, Lin Dittmann from Erfurt and Marius Baum from Gotha. Georg plays drums for the Apokalyptische Reiter, Lin is currently the drummer with Keimzeit and Marius did the same for Double Vision, among others. Andre- as Saul, guitarist and harpist, lives in Gotha and also plays with gothacoustic. The Weimar-based singer and guitarist Michael Rötsch is well-known from his work with the bands Bullfrog-Blues and Dolly Bastards.

VIOLA MICHAELIS & ALL HUES

Programme of swing dance and jazz bursting with the joy of music-making

Jazz quartet All Hues plays a modern version of swing, with the occasional excursion into rock or classical music. For the finale of Kunstfest, the band can be heard with a cross-section of sounds from projects including their jazz detective story, swing dance programme and original compositions. Listeners will be captivated by their exuberant music-making, which, while it may have a traditional feel, is also happy to transcend this after a phase of exploration during the pandemic.

SONNY THET, CHARLIE EITNER, TOPO GIOIA PERCUSSION & STRINGS

This concert offers some brilliant sounds with a whole series of dialogue and solo highlights. The musicians repeatedly manage to embellish the themes of their improvisations with amazing shifts of rhythm and iridescent tone colours. Sonny Thet was born in the Kingdom of Cambodia and sent by Prince Sihanouk to study European music in the classical city of Weimar. After graduating as a cellist, he co-founded the leg- endary group Bayon. During this period, he developed his unmistakable style, combining Khmer pentatonic music with European classical and rock elements. Cottbus-born Charlie Eitner has been one of Germa- ny’s most expressive and innovative jazz and jazz rock guitarists for decades. Argentinian-born Daniel “Topo” Gioia has lived in Berlin since 1977. He is a founder member of the group Ipanema and has played in nu- merous other salsa and jazz ensembles.

PRO ART + GÄSTE

Nu Jazz, Trip Hop, Drum’n’Bass: fathers and sons perform together on stage

The band »Pro Art« from Ilmenau just have fun with the groove. A word that is people often like to misuse – but it really comes to life here.
This is a blend of old, established Thuringian blues and soul musicians and wild youngsters who have grown up with the oldies’ music and now mix it with what defines their contemporary way of life: nu jazz, trip hop and drum’n’bass. Fathers have now been playing together with their sons here for over 35 years. Especially in recent years, the band has also got younger – and with every new member the numbers that have been mainstays of the programme for years have be- come more colourful and more nuanced. The result is traditional but fresh.

SILKE GONSKA & FRIEDER W. BERGNER

A programme of the most beautiful, impudent, profound and heart-rending songs of the 1920s

“Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte...” New songs setting poems from the 1920s

STAATSKAPELLE WEIMAR © ANDREAS SCHLAGER

MANFRED BRÜNDL QUARTETT | STAATSKAPELLE WEIMAR | OPERNCHOR DES DNT WEIMAR

WEST SIDE & BEYOND

SO,10.SEP–20UHR

Sun,10.Sep–8pm

DEUTSCHES NATIONALTHEATER WEIMAR, GROSSES HAUS

Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Großes Haus

BERNSTEIN, BRUBECK & BRÜNDL:

Fulminanter Abschluss mit der Staatskapelle Weimar

Manfred Bründl (*1959): Suite VII für Jazzquartett und Orchester, Uraufführung | Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990): Symphonic Dances from West Side Story für Orchester | Dave Brubeck (1920-2012): To Hope! A Celebration, eine Jazz-Messe für Orchester, gemischten Chor, Gesangssolisten und Jazzquartett

In their new programme, Silke Gonska and Frieder W. Bergner present some of the most beautiful poems written in German in modern times. Ever since the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus in 2009, these two artists have continued to explore the phenomenon of the Bauhaus in Weimar and its context in the social developments of the Twenties. They have produced a large Bauhaus audio book in 2019 (‘100 Years of the Bauhaus!’), a Bauhaus revue, a revue about the women of the Bauhaus in 2020 (‘Let the Women Speak!’) and now, most recently, a highly personal programme about the period between the two world wars (‘RAUSCH UND ABSTURZ – Germany in the 20s’). For the first time both artists present a programme purely of songs, made up of the most beautiful, impudent, profound and heart-rending numbers.