A few weeks ago we started our “win a t-shirt” competition, asking you to take a screenshot of yourself in a video call – using one of the Static Roots Festival’s rock’n’roll background images. A big fan of the Static …
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Release Day EP 8Stephen Stanley Aley Huard (of Dropout Entertainment, Canada) talks with Stephen Stanley about taking advantage of golden opportunities, staying creative and releasing music we might not have heard thanks to the pandemic. Release Day | Episode 8 …
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“Am Anfang war eine Idee” In einem lesenswerten Artikel der Print- und Online-Ausgabe der Mülheimer Woche vom 22. August 2020, berichtet die Redaktion über die Historie: die Hauskonzertreihe im Raumfahrtzentrum Saarner Kuppe, das Static Roots Festival und die “stay safe …
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Jeff Robson’s Tell The Band To Go Home on umfm.com, July 12th 2020 Taken from the Tell The Band To Go Home website: “This is the weekend when we’d normally be off in Germany enjoying our beloved Static Roots Festival, …
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https://twitter.com/FearonKerry/status/1250412661155729410 Check out the Boots’n’Roots radio show from April 2020. Kerry Fearon interviews Joe Nolan in New York, USA, just a few weeks after he played the Static Roots Festival 2019 (featuring music by The Drew Fish Band, Johnny …
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funding campaign for the easily overlooked For the last few years, the Static Roots Festival has constantly supported Doctors Without Borders. From 2016 until 2019 we were able to donate more than 14.000 EUR to the organization – thanks to …
funding campaign 2020 – Corona is no alternative to Alt. Country Read More »
Brent Jensen’s ‘No Sleep ‘Til Sudbury’ podcast From Brent Jensen’s intro: “My pal Stephen Stanley just released an incredible live record, and he joins me to talk about it this week on NSTS. The record is called Live Static Roots, …
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Available from July 10th 2020 The Stephen Stanley Band – LIVE STATIC ROOTS This is some brilliant news! Today we would actually be kicking off the celebration of the fifth annual Static Roots Festival. Anyway, there is still good reason …
album release: The Stephen Stanley Band – LIVE STATIC ROOTS Read More »
Static Roots Festival is calling Are you missing the Static Roots Festival? You still have to be patient, but you can already bring a beautiful piece of the Static Roots Festival home – with our festival backgrounds. These killer pictures …
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We asked and you chose a winner Thanks for joining our Facebook and instagram poll for a new logo design. The poll has ended with a clear winner. On a design platform we started a competition and ended up with …
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ticket refund, postcards, stay safe sessions We sent out our June 2020 newsletter last night. Deutsch English Sign up to our newsletter here
Following the official postponement of the Static Roots Festival, we have some information about refunding your tickets for this year’s event. As previously announced, our next festival will happen July 9-10, 2021. For now, it seems we will be able …
Static Roots Festival postcards Another batch of postcards will go out today. Would you like a good old-fashioned postcard from us through your letterbox? Send your postal address to postcard(at)staticrootsfestival.de and a postcard will be on its way soon…
Dearest friends and supporters, I suspect that it comes as no surprise, but I am sure you are as disappointed as we are to have to tell you that this year’s festival just can’t happen for a wide variety of …
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“HappySad am 09.04.2020 um 21 Uhr auf radioeins Abschied von Bill Withers und John Prine Letzte Woche ist der große Soulman Bill Withers gestorben und nun erlag auch Country Folk-Legende John Prine seiner Corona-Erkrankung. Beide eint ein großer Schatz an …
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After selling out all Early-Bird-Tickets within nine days, today (March 1st 2020) there are just 45 regular tickets left. If you want to join us, get your tickets now. With more than four months to go until Static Roots Festival …
Dietmar Leibecke vom Static Roots Festival zu Gast bei Christine Heise Nahezu traditionell wird Dietmar Leibecke vom Static Roots Festival auch in diesem Jahr wieder Gast sein bei der wunderbaren Christine Heise in der Sendung HappySad auf radioeins am 18. …
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For the love of music … We’d love to introduce you to the music of London, UK, based band Treetop Flyers. This brilliant band captures the 60s Westcoast pop, adds a whole lot of soul, brilliant guitar playing, a phenomenal …
Unbelievable Thanks for all your support and buying an early-bird-ticket. Within just nine days we sold all 200 early-bird-tickets – that’s mental! The final 100 tickets will soon become available via AdTicket…
Static Roots: The story of a festival Nick West (Bucketfull of Brains) with a great write-up about the Static Roots Festival: the (short history), a look back at the Static Roots Festival 2019, and a lookout at what’s to come …
“launched for all the right reasons” – Bucketfull of Brains about Static Roots Read More »
Thanks to Americana-UK’s Mark Underwood for this excellent preview of the Static Roots Festival 2020: “Fast becoming pretty much an essential date in any Americana fan’s festival diary these days, the Static Roots Festival in Oberhausen, Germany this coming July …
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Early Bird Tickets available from Monday, Jan. 6th 2020 From Monday, Jan. 6th 2020, a limited set of early bird tickets (hard tickets) will be available through the website. Although we are still non-profit and non-sponsored (we’re doing it all …
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Friday, 10th July 11am meeting point: “Oberhausen train station” At the Static Ruhr Tour 2020 we will take you to Zeche Zollverein in Essen, a former coal mine and now a UNESCO world cultural heritage site – one of the …
First acts announced for the Static Roots Festival 2020 line-up You’ve all been waiting impatiently so here we go with the first six acts of the Static Roots Festival 2020:
Auch das roadtracks Magazin hat ein umfangreiches Review mit tollem Bildmaterial veröffentlicht. “Der Geheim-Tipp ist dahin, das STATIC ROOTS FESTIVAL ist im vierten Jahr seines Bestehens ausverkauft. Die Americana-, Country- und Roots-Rock-Fans aus mehreren europäischen Ländern haben die Music-Nische somit …
Check out this great blog post about the Static Roots Festival 2019 by Klaas Guchelaar. Wonderfully written, of course full of beautiful and perfect pictures: More…
Vielen Dank an die Dagmar Brusitzki Musikagentur für diesen wunderbaren Rückblick auf das Static Roots Festival 2019: “Und natürlich mach ich es auch diesen Sommer nicht ohne ein ordentliches Festival. Und dieses nun ist eine Geschichte für sich. Das Static …
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“In this day and age of mega festivals, Static Roots reminds one that “small is beautiful” (…) and as such it’s a great continental addition to the likes of Kilkenny Roots…” Thanks to Paul Kerr (Blabber’n’Smoke) and Americana-UK for this …
“Another successful Static Roots…” Thanks to Declan Culliton (LonesomeHighway.com) for this beautiful review: “The fourth staging of The Static Roots Festival took place once again at the Zentrum Altenberg in Oberhausen on the 12th and 13th of July. A metal …
LonesomeHighway.com: “…we don’t want it to get too big!” Read More »
“…womit der Anspruch, … in die führende Riege europäischer Americana-Festivals aufzusteigen, eindrucksvoll untermauert wurde” “Das Klassenziel ist erreicht: Die vierte Auflage des Static Roots Festivals war nun restlos ausverkauft; womit der Anspruch, als hierzulande einzige Veranstaltung ihrer Art in die …
gaesteliste.de: “Sehr viel besser hätte das alles nicht gemacht werden können…” Read More »
Ein Rückblick auf das Static Roots Festival 2019 HappySad vom 18.07.2019 In ihrer Sendung “HappySad” vom 18.07.2019 auf radioeins blickt Christine Heise zurück auf das Static Roots Festival 2019 und berichtet über ihre Erlebnisse und Favoriten: Playlist Sendung vom 18.07.2019
“a beautiful community of love, togetherness and rock n roll” Click here to read Joe Nolan’s emotional look back at the Static Roots Festival 2019!
“…ein Muss-Treffen für europäische Genießer…” “[D]as ‘Static Roots’ [ist] ein Muss-Treffen für europäische Genießer jener originär amerikanischen Musik, die höchst unterhaltsam zwischen Folk, Bluegrass und Rock’n’Roll schillert” schreibt die WAZ über das gerade in Oberhausen zuende gegangene vierte Static Roots …
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John Murry about Static Roots Festival 2019: “prove beyond a shadow of a doubt the transcendent power of music and of community by creating an environment full of love, camaraderie, and rock and roll for absolutely nothing but the love …
“What an absolute triumph” “A brilliant first night at the sold out @staticrootsfestival . Seeing old friends, making new ones, crying at @johnbleksolo tribute to Willie, charmed by @thebrotherbrothers, @johnmurry ripping it up in the only way he can, @thewavepictures …
