“It’s amazing how eight musicians, not depending upon musical or any other limits, manage to follow the credo „The Church must be modernized” with on craziness bordering amount of sheet music." Bettina Schack NRZ
Eight persons and around 30 instruments, Christmas songs, Christmas costumes, a Christmas story, allowing ample room for creativity and inter-action on stage. Songs and some folk dances, these are the ingredients for this timeless manger presentation. You have most certainly never heard the thus presented familiar Christmas songs before. At times they are sacred arranged by the musicians and sometimes presented as Punk. Balkan meets Jazz, meets pop songs and Punk meets Samba and Afro-Beat. It’s by no means foreseeable, neither by the concert audience, nor by the actors . And of course, a story is based on every orderly manger play.
Musicians:
Matthias Schriefl (DE, Trompete, Flügelhorn, Baritonsaxofon, Altsaxofon, Akkordeon, Alphorn, Posaune, Pikkolotrompete, Gesang)
Anna Tropper-Lener (AUS, Violine, Keyboard, E-Bass, Gitarre, Blockflöte, Gesang)
Simon Rummel (DE, Viola, Keyboard, Klavier, Melodika, Euphonium, Blockflöte, Gesang)
Johannes Bär (AUS, (Tuba, Klarinette, Posaune, Euphonium, Trompete, Flügelhorn, Pikkolotrompete, Alphorn, Beatbox, Gesang)
Philipp Zdebel (DE, Schlagzeug, Keyboard, Gesang)
Special Guests:
Michl Engl (IT, Tuba, Tenorhorn, Ophicleide, Alphorn, Kuhlohorn, Gesang)
Claudia Schwab (IE, Violine, Flügelhorn, Akkordeon, Blockflöte, Gesang)
Michael "Schnucki" Theissing-Tegeler (D, Posaune, Bass-Posaune, Euphonium, Trompete, Gesang)
Julian Walleck (DE, Kontrabass, E-Bass, Gesang)
Kalle Mathiesen (DK, drums, E-Bass, vocals)