Static Roots Festival 2017
Thank you for being such an amazing audience!
What an attentive, passionate, friendly, lovely, funny and charming bunch of folks - we LOVE you
(picture by Klaas Guchelaar)
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We've got the best audience in the world. At the Static Roots Festival 2018 we have been collecting money for Doctors Without Borders / MSF. We gave away posters, postcards, badges, tote bags and gym bags for a donation. All in all our wonderful audience donated 875 EUR - that's
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Unter dem Titel "Fröhliche Musik amerikanischer Bauart im Zentrum Altenberg" veröffentlicht die NRZ Oberhausen am 16. Juli 2018 einen wunderschönen Rückblick auf das Static Roots Festival 2018: Bennett Wilson Poole waren "...Ein opulentes Vergnügen, das mächtig in die Beine ging. Was sich später auch bei den bärtigen Herren der „Cordovas“
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An der Tageskasse werden heute und morgen weiterhin Tickets verfügbar sein. Die Preise: Festival-Wochenendticket: 56 EUR Tagesticket Freitag: 29 EUR Tagesticket Samstag: 42
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Am Donnerstag, 12.07.18, ab 21:04 Uhr berichtet Radio Oberhausen in der neuen rocko-Radiosendung über das Static Roots Festival. Anzuhören ist die Sendung
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"Zwei Tage bietet das Static Roots Festival in Oberhausen „Peace, Love and Rock 'n' Roll“. Der Konzert-Reigen entstand aus einer Privatinitiative. Ein Festival im Westentaschenformat: Wenn am Freitag und Samstag, 13. und 14. Juli, das Static Roots Festival zum dritten Mal das Zentrum Altenberg ansteuert, wissen eingeweihte Fans freilich schon
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"Seit drei Jahren bezaubert das Static Roots Festival seine Besucher mit Acts, die sich fernab des Mainstreams befinden. Unter Musikliebhabern gilt das Festival, welches am 13. und 14. Juli in Oberhausen stattfindet, als Geheimtipp." Ein Interview mit Dietmar Leibecke vom Static Roots Festival - vielen Dank an Marcus
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I was kindly being asked to provide a Spotify playlist by the great folks at the wonderful Union Music Store in Lewes, UK. Check this
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Der WDR berichtet am 12. Juli 2018 ab 19:30 Uhr in seiner Sendung "Lokalzeit Ruhr" über das Static Roots Festival 2018. Der Bericht wird außerdem anschließend für eine Woche lang über die WDR-Mediathek verfügbar sein. Den Link zur Sendungen werden wir hier zur Verfügung
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Sometimes when something goes wrong, something even better comes out of it: Unfortunately Donald Byron Wheatley wasn't able to come to the festival, but this allows us the opportunity to present the great Hadley McCall Thackston from Decatur, Georgia, USA: A couple years back, the 25-year-old Hadley McCall Thackston was at a crossroads.
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Unter der Überschrift "Statische Wurzeln" berichtet das deutsch Folk-Musik-Magazin "FOLKER" über das Static Roots Festival
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Fear not to do good! Just like the last two years, the Static Roots Festival will once again support Doctors without Borders/Ärzte ohne Grenzen/MSF in 2018. The Static Roots Festival tote bags and cloth bags as well as festival posters with the amazing design by Tiff Bartel Illustration will be
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Due to timing issues, good friend Robert Gerlings had to optimize the StaticRuhrTour so he made some updates to the first version and finalized the schedule. We'll visit some iconic Ruhr valley sites, have a beer at a corner shop, a local specialty snack. Part of the Ruhr valley experience is
Read moreIn der Ausgabe vom 30.06.2018 berichtet die Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung WAZ über das Static Roots Festival und die Hauskonzert-Reihe im Raumfahrtzentrum Saarner Kuppe: Download hier... Eine andere Version des Artikels befindet sich online hier:
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We have just brought some life into our Static Roots Festival instagram account. Check it out
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Am 28.06.2018 war Dietmar Leibecke vom Static Roots Festival zu Gast im alten RIAS-Gebäude in Berlin, um mit Kerstin Poppendieck vom Sender "Deutschlandfunk Kultur" für die Sendung "Tonart Americana" über das Static Roots Festival 2018 zu sprechen. Die Sendung wird am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2018 ab 1:05 Uhr, ausgestrahlt und
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Line-up for Static Roots Festival 2018
Fri. 13 July & Sat. 14 July 2018
Zentrum Altenberg, Oberhausen, Germany
(check out our YouTube line-up playlist here)
Sometimes when something goes wrong, something even better comes out of it: Unfortunately Donald Byron Wheatley wasn't able to come to the festival, but this allows us the opportunity to present the great Hadley McCall Thackston from Decatur, Georgia, USA: A couple years back, the 25-year-old Hadley McCall Thackston was at a crossroads. Cordovas We have been working on this one for almost six months now and we are extremely happy to announce the last act for the line-up of the Static Roots Festival 2018: the amazing Cordovas from Nashville, TN, USA, will play the headlining show on Saturday, Jul 14th! It was SUSTO (solo) Susto is a disease of the soul that has its origin in Latin America. Imagine it as some kind of soul death or the loss of the soul. It’s said, that sufferers are walking shells of their former selves. But the good news is there is a cure! Terra Lightfoot TERRA LIGHTFOOTPress shots / Album cover. Hamilton, ON. June 27, 2017Photo by Dustin Rabin. 2766 She plays a mean lead guitar, her voice is remarkably powerful, bluesy & soulful, and with her terrific band Terra Lightfoot will go down like a storm at the Static Roots Festival 2018! Bennett Wilson Poole This is simply too good to be true: a couple of weeks ago I got a copy of the yet to be released debut album by Bennett Wilson Poole. Blown away by the first listen, these guys sound like the British Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young! And The Midnight Union Band Willie Meighan. The Boss. A legend in the Irish Music scene, organiser of the Kilkenny Roots Festival, owner of Rollercoaster Records (Kilkenny) - "the happiest little record shop in the world", one of the kindest and gentlest person you could ever hope to meet. When this Hannah Aldridge For her debut album "Razor Wire" (2014) she was described as Muscle Shoal's own "Americana princess". With her 2017 album "Gold Rush" and tons of raving reviews, she ended up in many best-of-lists and it seems she might have climbed the throne. We are very much looking forward Prinz Grizzley and his Beargaroos At the Kilkenny Roots Festival 2017 an Americana band from Austria was the talk of the town. Americana from Austria? Well, who would have thought. Beautiful, soulful Americana music, excellent songwriting, fantastic musicianship, a compelling voice even yodelling at times. Welcome to the Static Roots Charlie Whitten Earlier in 2017 when promoting a show with Cale Tyson & band, Cale’s guitar player Juan Solorzano talked about another of his musical activities and highly recommended to check out Charlie Whitten from Nashville, TN, USA. Bought Charlie Whitten’s 2014 album “Hey Love” and instantly fell in love The Stephen Stanley Band Their album "Jimmy & The Moon" instantly won us over. Top songwriting, killer melodies, jangling guitars, amazing harmonies, some straight rockers, some beautiful ballads. At the same time Stephen Stanley's "The Troubadour's Song" became my farewell song for the great Willie Meighan. We can't wait to Anthony da Costa The brilliant Anthony da Costa (Nashville, USA) has been writing songs since the age of 10 and playing professionally since 13. In 2007 (at the age of 16), Anthony became the youngest winner ever of both the Falcon Ridge and Kerrville Folk Festival songwriting competitions. He has
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- Hannah Aldridge, The Stephen Stanley Band, The Midnight Union Band, Terra Lightfoot
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- SUSTO (solo), Anthony da Costa, Charlie Whitten, Donald Byron Wheatley, Bennett Wilson Poole, Prinz Grizzley and his Beargaroos, Cordovas
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Official trailer for the Static Roots Festival 2018
Impressions from Static Roots Festival 2017
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2016 has seen the inauguration of the Static Roots Festival at Zentrum Altenberg in Oberhausen (Rheinland), Germany.
The festival 2016 was a great success. With Leeroy Stagger (Canada), The Wynntown Marshals (Scotland), John Blek & The Rats (Ireland), Malojian (Northern-Ireland), Meena Cryle & The Chris Fillmore Band (Austria), The Midnight Union Band (Ireland), and Anna Mitchell (Ireland) it was a great line-up. And if Daniel Romano (Canada) had entered the correct address into his GPS the crowd would have enjoyed him as well.
There was an international audience with guests from Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Canada, and Germany, of course.
The festival got some great online reviews on its Facebook page and the web (find a german one from gaesteliste.de here) and two radio shows airing 30 – 60 minutes reports about the Static Roots Festival. (here is a link to the podcast of the Canadian radio show “Tell The Band To Go Home“ with Jeff Robson from Winnipeg).
Edgar Heckmann from Blue Rose Records, Germany, also attended the festival. His german radio show about the Static Roots Festival is available here.
In combination with the 2016 festival a fundraiser campaign for Doctors Without Borders/MSF was set up and raised a total of 9.050 EUR.
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