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
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Line-up
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)
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 Donald Byron Wheatley When good friends Del Day (Ark PR, Big City Lights) and Danny George Wilson (Danny & The Champions Of The World) founded their record label Mayden Voyage Recording Company, I never doubted they'd be putting out great music. And what a cracker their first two releases have 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
News
Two months until Static Roots Festival 2018! We can't wait... Check out this new festival playlist with the following tracks: Hannah Aldridge - Parchman The Stephen Stanley Band - Under The Mynah Bird The Midnight Union Band - If You'd Stay Terra Lightfoot - Two Hearts SUSTO - County Line
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Hey folks, for those of you who arrive early, we plan to organize a little Ruhrvalley roundtrip on the festival Friday, July 13th, around noon. Oberhausen is in the middle of one of the most industrialized areas in Europe, the Ruhrvalley ("Ruhrgebiet"). The Ruhrvalley is a melting pot: for more
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Wow! The legendary Kilkenny Roots Festival just recommended the Static Roots Festival: "Brilliant
Read moreEin toller Vorbericht über das Static Roots Festival 2018. Ullrich Maurer von Gaesteliste.de berichtet über das Static Roots Festival: "So schnell kann das gehen: Erst zum dritten Mal findet das Static Roots Festival am 13. und 14. Juli 2018 im Zentrum Altenberg in Oberhausen statt - und schon hat sich
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In his great radio show Tell The Band To Go Home on umfm.com (Winnipeg, Canada), Static Roots Festival MC Jeff Robson interviews our good friend Leeroy Stagger. At the end of the interview they talk about the Static Roots Festival and share some funny stories. Find the show here: part
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The dutch Americana Blog AltCountry.nl recommends three Americana festivals outside of the Netherlands: the Static Roots Festival in Germany the Tønder Folk festival in Denmark the The Long Road festival in the UK Find their blog here:
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“Im Juli ist bereits das musikalische Weihnachts-Fest!” Das Roadtracks Magazin berichtet über das Static Roots Festival 2018 und verlost zwei Gästelistenplätze (Einsendeschluß: 6. Mai 2018; Verlosung am 10. Mai 2018). Hier ein kleiner Auszug aus dem Vorbericht: "Da wir bereits eine gewisse Anzahl dieser Künstler bzw. Bands gesehen haben wie
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About four years ago I met Ken Beveridge at the breakfast buffet in a hotel in Kilkenny, Ireland. He recognized my wife's "The Wynntown Marshals" shirt and came up and politely asked where we were from. Turned out he is an enthusiastic music fan and travelling the world to see
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Unter http://www.countryundco.de/das-deutsche-americana-festival-static-roots-geht-in-die-dritte-runde/ berichtet das Online Magazin Country & Co. über das Static Roots Festival 2018: "Das deutsche Americana Festival Static Roots geht in die dritte
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About
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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