Konfrontationen Festival takes place in Nickelsdorf, a small village about an hour east of Vienna, right on the Hungarian border. The festival has now reached its 44th edition. Report by Oliver Weindling on the 2024 festival’s middle day, 27 July. [...]
The Inntöne Festival gave more opportunities than ever to hear the carefully-curated selections of Paul Zauner. The Friday of the festival had just four main bands, but on Saturday and Sunday he had programmed 13 hours a day of non-stop [...]
The location of the Gǎrâna Jazz Festival is appropriately called Poiana Lupului, meaning “wolf’s glens”. Perhaps it reflects the attitude of the musicians: playful, sharp, fearless and cunning! A main focus of the first few days of the festival, which [...]
Gaume Jazz reaches its 40th edition in 2024. Which is all the more impressive because the festival resolutely remains outside the mainstream, and has had the same artistic director, Jean-Pierre Bissot, since the start. It takes place in the village [...]
After Ralf Dombrowski’s report of the opening weekend of Suedtirol Festival 2024, Oliver Weindling reports on its closing days Oliver Weindling writes: Suedtirol Festival’s change of artistic directors, from Klaus Widmann, to the present triumvirate of Max von Prest, Roberto [...]
A good festival balances high quality and interesting programming with location and atmosphere. And it’s certainly so often that the location of the festival is not in the usual city but in “borderlands” with an openness to different cultures coming [...]
Like A Jazz Machine cleverly mixes higher profile acts with music of some of the leading and up-and-coming local bands in a five-day festival (I attended days 3 and 4). It takes place in a modern arts complex in Dudelange, [...]
Now running for over 30 years, the Kaleidophon festival takes place at the Jazzatelier in the small town of Ulrichsberg in Upper Austria. It is an intimate but welcoming event for free improvised jazz and contemporary music. The venue itself [...]
As part of the celebrations of European Capital of Culture in Bad Ischl and the Salzkammergut region, the beautiful Austrian equivalent of the Lake District, pianist Roberto Magris from Trieste brought together an international group of like-minded musicians (or “long-standing [...]
Here’s a surprise: a band based in Berlin performing a programme based mainly on the poetry of Wilfred Owen at a club in Vienna… But perhaps no more surprising than the fact that the instigator of a recent Netflix film [...]
