Music and dance at a high level presented on Saturday children and young people at the youth festival in the city castle. For five years, the city has organized the talent show with witty and typically Franconian elements. The sympathetic dance and music artists convinced with surprising and moving performances. This special cultural initiative gives hope that children and young people will be familiarized with culture, said Third Mayor Bernhard Christoph. Making music at an early age promotes a positive community experience, makes an important contribution to personality development and strengthens all the positive qualities that we depend on and that enrich life: concentration, creativity, expressiveness and self-confidence. Christoph emphasized that young people today are different in their forms of expression and habits than in the past. And then began a 90-minute show that didn’t have to take a back seat to any professional adult performance. “Colorful Leaves” was the theme of the evening, which the two moderators Lea Giebler and David Hoppner spiced up with numerous autumnal anecdotes and poems. Simeon Schmitt and Florian Klerner opened the round with guitar music.

Classical music and ballet

The first highlight was presented by Doris Diroll and her ballet group, who performed “La serenissima” expressively danced the Rondo Veneziano. Young pianist Jonathan Burger continued with the Rondo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Finn Scholl and Jonas Hirle interpreted the Autumn Legend by Linnemann.

Informative, creative and an experience – the best events of the Bavarian Organic Experience Days last fall were honored by Agriculture Minister Michaela Kaniber (CSU) at the Biofach trade fair in Nuremberg. The first prize in the agriculture category went to Geflugelhof Schubert from Unterrusselbach for its organic potato festival.

Six farms from the Bioland, Naturland, Biokreis and Demeter farming associations impressed with the idea and execution of their events. “With a lot of passion, heart and soul, and incredibly great ideas, you have managed to get consumers excited about local organic agriculture and its many different products”, said the minister. The best events had been selected by a jury of experts in the categories agriculture, processing and special events. All prize winners received value vouchers for organic products. At the organic potato festival, Geflugelhof Schubert showed visitors the entire farm, from organic laying hen husbandry to the pasta kitchen to the farm store, and informed guests about the rooster-rooster project and dual-purpose chickens. An extensive children’s program with hands-on activities revolved around chickens and potatoes. For all visitors there was music, organic food and a small market with information and sales booths.

The award of the Friedrich Ruckert Culture Prize to Hans-Dieter Russ was the focus of the annual general meeting of the Habberghauptverein in the Leicht restaurant in Kemmern. Chairman Norbert Schmucker also reported on many other activities of the association, including the 25th anniversary celebration in Lauter, which was associated with the Hassberg Festival.

As an outlook on 2019, he highlighted the 50th anniversary of the Hassbergverein Reckendorf and the day of hiking on 14. May particularly emphasized.

The greetings of the municipality Kemmern brought mayor Ruediger Gerst. He thanked for the cultural work of the local association Kemmern. The Hassbergverein has a high value and contributes with the expansion of the hiking network to the attractiveness of the vacation region, said Gerst.

From Friday, 6. July, up to and including Monday, 9. July, becomes the 29. Sander Altmain wine festival celebrated for the first time. The popular and nationally known open-air wine festival at the idyllic Altmain offers festival romance and party atmosphere at the same time. A flagship of the Altmain wine festival in the winegrowing community of Sand is the outstanding music program. Top bands want to ensure a pure party atmosphere on the festival square on all four days of the festival this year as well.
The band “Partyfursten” will set the right mood for the kick-off on Friday at 8 p.m, which already occurs for the repeated time in sand. On Saturday at 3 p.m. the procession and the official opening with numerous guests of honor will take place. The party band “Bassd schO” promises a cheerful and strong evening from 19 o’clock. On Sunday, the Altmain service will take place again at 10 a.m. A large menu is then available at lunch from 11.30 o’clock. Zunftig it goes from 14.30 o’clock, when the “Hergolshauser Musikanten” played perform as a three-time European champion of Bohemian brass music. Afterwards from 20 clock give “Die Jungen Zillertaler” Full throttle. The giant band from Austria is known from radio and television and all music friends a term. The finale on Monday is rocking and grooving. From 19.30 o’clock there will be a huge party with the band “VolXX Liga” give.
A newly designed laser show from the main stage will this year with a fantastic light show on Sunday at 22.30 o’clock started. This is just as worth seeing as the grand finale fireworks with musical accompaniment, which on Monday evening around 22.30 o’clock is ignited.
Due to the high security requirements, the organizing committee had to decide to charge a security fee as an entrance fee for all days. It is charged at all entrances and amounts to five euros for all four days and two euros for one day. On Sunday, until the beginning of the evening event, admission is free.

The local association Neuhaus with its local boys, above all Julian Eibert, had invited on the past weekend to the fourth tent kerwa. And a tent was not wrong. Even though the temperatures were still quite pleasant, every now and then a damp shower came from the sky.

At 16.30 o’clock the Kerwasburschen with the “Kleinwachenrother village music” pulled on a decorated wagon for the “Kerwa zamspielen” through the village and they took turns marching and singing cheeky Kerwasliedli among themselves. In between all Festumzugler had to refuel again and again powerfully “tank. The donation box followed the wagon and so lads and musicians in the whole village loudly announced the beginning of the Kerwa.

Nine-year-old Bianca stood enthusiastically at the roadside: “I want to go on the boat swing, fish for ducks, draw lots and, of course, shoot!”, revealed to the FT. It is also already custom that the village elder Maria Schmidt, she is almost 97 years old, is invited to the Schnapsla.

“Open wide the doors” – with this Advent invitation to prepare for Christmas, Pastor Peter Schramm welcomed the many listeners in the Rehweiler St. Mary’s Church. Matthaus-Kirche and on the other hand this was the festive, musical opening of the Advent music last Sunday evening in the small Steigerwald church congregation.

Festive and atmospheric

The traditional concert on the second Advent was attended by almost seventy musicians and singers. Besides the church choir Futtersee (conducted by Erika Hablauer) and the church choir Grobbirkach (conducted by Annegret Drausnick), the Geiselwinder Singkreis (conducted by Reinhold Eybelein) could also be heard.

The sound of the Haag trombone choir under the direction of Gerhard Maul was beautifully festive and atmospheric, including the victory march from “Judas Maccabee” by F.G. Handel intoned.

Visitors to the open-air festival can look forward to a weekend full of homemade music, a wide variety of sounds and surprise effects
5. Kitzinger Sommers from Friday, 12. July, until Sunday, 14. July, on the fairground of the old synagogue look forward. For the first time, the open-air festival is purely a music festival. “We no longer have cabaret in the program. There are so many cabaret events. It no longer makes sense to be in competition with each other”, Richard Arndt-Landbeck explains the decision.

A cappella capital
It starts on Friday, 12. July, with “Vivid Curls – Triple winner of the German Rock and Pop Award. Inka Kuchler and Irene Schindele write many of their songs themselves, mixing powerful folk rock with Allgau dialect. “They are newcomers and in our region still unknown musicians”, says Arndt-Landbeck.

On Saturday, 13. July, three bands will share the stage of the
7. A cappella night. None of them have any instruments with them – except their voices. As hosts, the Kitzingen “Soundchexx” will make with their German and English repertoire and loose sayings between the pieces the beginning. “Muttis Kinder stand afterwards on the stage. Originally actors, they now combine rock and pop as well as classical and jazz as singers. The highlight of the evening will be the five men of “Fool Moon” from Hungary.In their homeland, they have long been audience favorites, and the title of their latest CD already gives an idea of what to look forward to: “GeorgeMichaelJackson5”. The a cappella night has become a permanent fixture in Kitzingen’s cultural program. Originally it originated at the Kitzinger city festival. For the third time it is now part of the Kitzinger Sommer. “Kitzingen is the a cappella capital of Lower Franconia”, Arndt-Landbeck is convinced.

Melancholic sounds
At the end on Sunday,
14. July, Caro and Andi Obieglo from “Carolin No” will play. Their songs, which the couple writes themselves, are mostly melancholic and intense. Multimedia enriches the concert with video projections. “The two mix folk music with county and classical elements”, describes Arndt-Landbeck.

By the way, the Kitzingen Summer will not be canceled in case of bad weather. If it rains, all events will be moved to the Old Synagogue, where there are about 300 seats available. Therefore, only 300 tickets will be sold in advance for the time being. According to Arndt-Landbeck, on the Wednesday before the Kitzinger Sommer it will then be decided whether the festival will take place indoors or outdoors. On the festival square 1000 visitors can celebrate, dance and sing together. “The place offers a unique ambience”, says Thomas Most. The open-air festival is organized in cooperation with the city marketing association and the municipal cultural work of the Old Synagogue. They both pursue the same goal with the Kitzinger Sommer: “Our claim is to offer self-composed music, no cover bands”, says Arndt-Landbeck.