Static Roots Festival 2017
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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
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News
Wow - feeling humbled for these words about the Static Roots Festival. Thank you, Americana-UK! "You can find gold in the most unlikely of places if you look hard enough. Now, Oberhausen, a quiet industrial backwater in the Ruhr valley a few miles from the metropolitan splendour of Dusseldorf, wouldn’t
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Paul Kerr from the great Scottish music blog Blabber'n'Smoke spoke to Dietmar Leibecke about the Static Roots Festival 2018: "Round about this time last year we spoke to a good friend of Blabber’n’Smoke, Dietmar Leibecke, from Germany, about his Static Roots festival which he had set up in 2016. Seeing
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Unter dem Titel "Going West: Americana im Pott" war Dietmar Leibecke vom Static Roots Festival gestern Abend zu Gast in der Sendung HappySad von radioeins in Babelsberg. Anzuhören ist die Sendung noch bis zum 21. Juni 2018 unter folgendem Link:
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Just back home last Sunday night from a great weekend in London, UK, seeing Bennett Wilson Poole and attending the Noshville 2018 festival, I got a message from good friend Jeff Robson, asking if I was available for a quick chat about the Static Roots Festival 2018. So Jeff picked
Read moreUnter dem Titel "Going West: Americana im Pott" weist radioeins / RBB auf das Static Roots Festival in der Sendung HappySad mit Christine Heise am 14. Juni 2018
Read moreBereits im Jahr 2017 berichtete Christine Heise in ihrer Radiosendung HappySad ("eine Bastion des echten Gefühls in einer kalten Welt") auf radioeins über das Static Roots Festival und bescheinigte dem Line-up: "...ganz hohes Niveau". Am Donnerstag, den 14.06.2018 ab 21:00 Uhr, wird Christine Heise über das Static Roots Festival 2018
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Hooked on Music über das Static Roots Festival: "Americana im Ruhrgebiet: Besser geht es
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NRWHits.de berichtet über das Static Roots Festival 2018: "In Oberhausen sorgt das Static Roots Festival ein weiteres mal für jede Menge musikalischer Unterhaltung. Euphorisch und mit einem super Line-Up im Gepäck, startet das akustische Spektakel unter dem Motto "peace, love, rock'n'roll" in die nächste Runde und möchte sein Publikum mal
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Now that we've officially published the timetable for the Static Roots Festival 2018, day tickets are now available through AdTicket.de. Find the tickets
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Die Rheinische Post berichtet am 28.05.2018 in der Rubrik Kultur u. a. über das Static Roots Festival: "Es gehört nicht zu den größten Festivals im Land, aber gewiss zu denen, in denen das meiste Herzblut steckt: Am 13. und 14. Juli präsentiert das Static Roots Festival wieder eine handverlesene Auswahl
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Video
Official trailer for the Static Roots Festival 2018
Impressions from Static Roots Festival 2017
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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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