Side Project · Live Studio Recordings · Oberhausen

STATIC ROOTS
SESSIONS

Exclusive performances from festival artists - recorded live at TRESOHR Studios, where analogue warmth meets digital precision.

TRESOHR Studios · Oberhausen · Free for every festival artist
Made possible with the support of the Stiftung für Bildung und Kultur

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Music with Heart · Recorded with Soul · Oberhausen

WHAT THE SESSIONS ARE

Born in the heart of Oberhausen, the Static Roots Sessions bring the spirit of our festival into the legendary TRESOHR Studios. International talents and local legends step off the festival stage and into an intimate recording space - creating powerful, honest versions of their songs.

The result is something you can't capture at a festival: the full attention of a professional studio, the space for a song to breathe, and performances that stay with you. Not a live concert. Not a polished album. Something in between - and better than either.

Every artist playing Static Roots Festival is invited to record. No selection process, no competition, no cost. If you played our stage, TRESOHR's door is open.

"We're launching the Static Roots Sessions - exclusive recordings in partnership with Oberhausen's legendary TRESOHR Studios. A new, evergreen home for the stories and songs that define our community."

Dietmar Leibecke · Founder, Static Roots Festival

Honest Performances

These aren't polished studio albums. They're the real thing - artists in a room, playing their songs the way they were meant to be heard. Warm. Direct. Alive.

Multi-Camera Production

World-class studio sound paired with professional multi-camera filming. The Sessions look and sound as good as they feel - built to be shared, and to last.

A Career Tool, Not Just A Video

These recordings help artists book gigs, reach new fans, and build momentum long after the festival weekend. For emerging artists especially, it's the kind of content that changes things.

Free For Every Artist

Every artist playing Static Roots Festival gets a world-class studio session - completely free. Filmed, produced, and delivered. No strings attached.

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EVERY SESSION, In One Place

A growing archive of unforgettable Static Roots Sessions - each performance available to watch, share, and revisit.

Static Roots Sessions 2025 · TRESOHR Studios

THE SOUTHERN FOLD

Kilkenny, Ireland · Americana · Alt-Folk

One of the undisputed highlights of Static Roots 2025 - the five-piece from Kilkenny walked on stage and took the room with them, song by song, story by story, until the whole place felt like one living, breathing thing. Weeks later, people were still talking about them. Here they are at TRESOHR, up close and unfiltered.

Static Roots Sessions 2025 · TRESOHR Studios

PEARL CHARLES

Los Angeles, USA · Cosmic Country · Americana

Cosmic country, California warmth, and a voice that sounds like it was born somewhere between the canyon and the highway. Pearl Charles brought her new album Desert Queen to Oberhausen in 2025. And then took it into TRESOHR Studios for something more intimate still. These are the songs, stripped back and glowing.

Static Roots Sessions 2025 · TRESOHR Studios

SAVANNAH GARDNER &
THE RECOVERING GOOD GIRLS

California-born, London-based · Outlaw Country · Soul · Honky-Tonk

Born in California and forged in the independent music bars of London, Savannah Gardner writes songs with the grit of an outlaw and the warmth of someone who has lived every word. Her debut album Recovering Good Girl — produced by Dale Davis, legendary musical director for Amy Winehouse - announced a voice that refuses to be tidied up or toned down. Onstage with The Recovering Good Girls, she spreads joy, fury, and badassery in equal measure - and she earned a UK AMA Live Act of the Year nomination in 2025 to prove it.

Static Roots Sessions 2025 · TRESOHR Studios

DOM GLYNN &
HIS SUNDAY BEST

Birmingham-born, London-based · Vintage Americana · Honky-Tonk

Dom Glynn spent his twenties doing it the old way: playing endless sets in London bars, learning every song his heroes ever wrote, and earning his place at the front of a room note by note. His songwriting carries the spirit of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash; his fingerpicking recalls Mississippi John Hurt and Doc Watson; and his band His Sunday Best, formed in 2023, turns all of it into something that makes people drink, dance, and forget what time it is. In 2025 they went electric, hit the road across the Netherlands and Germany, and proved that the best honky-tonk in Britain happens to come from Birmingham.

Static Roots Sessions 2025 · TRESOHR Studios

PERT NEAR
SANDSTONE

Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota · Americana · Progressive Bluegrass · String Band

For over two decades, Pert Near Sandstone have been the heartbeat of the Minnesota roots music scene — a frontman-less four-piece built on clawhammer banjo, mandolin, upright bass, and the kind of tight, exhilarating ensemble playing that sends people home humming. They helped launch the Blue Ox Music Festival in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in 2015 and have been curating it ever since; NPR's Mountain Stage praised them for putting a "Midwestern stamp on Appalachian sounds"; and their ninth studio album Side By Side, released in February 2026, shows a band that still has somewhere to go. When they play, the whole room leans in.

Static Roots Sessions 2025 · TRESOHR Studios

MICHELE STODART

Born Trinidad · Raised Queens, New York · Based London · Folk · Americana · Roots

Michele Stodart arrived at this festival trailing a remarkable story: born in Trinidad, raised in Queens, New York, and long known as the bassist, vocalist and co-songwriter of Mercury-nominated, double-platinum band The Magic Numbers. But her solo work has become something wholly and unmistakably her own. Her 2023 album Invitation won both UK Americana Artist of the Year and Album of the Year at the 2024 AMA-UK Awards - and anyone who has heard it in a quiet room will understand why. Shaped by Joni Mitchell, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, and Gillian Welch, she writes songs that carry the weight of a life fully felt.

Static Roots Sessions 2025 · TRESOHR Studios

EMBLA & THE
KARIDOTTERS

Bergen, Norway · Country · Americana · Nordicana

For thirteen years, Embla Karidotter kept the beat behind the drums for Norwegian indie legends Razika. Then she stepped out front, picked up a guitar, and assembled a band from the finest musicians in Bergen - and what followed was Hello, I'm Embla, a debut album that won the 2022 Spellemann Award for Best Country Album and took them from Stagecoach in California to SXSW in Austin to Øya in Oslo. Inspired by Dolly Parton, Townes Van Zandt, Charlie Rich, and Roy Orbison, and produced by Matias Téllez (the same hand behind girl in red) theirs is a country sound with an outsider vision and a Norwegian chill in its bones. Impossible not to love.

Giving Artists A Stage Beyond The Stage

WHAT ARTISTS GET

Every artist playing Static Roots Festival is invited to record — completely free. Here's what that looks like in practice.

01

Free studio Sessions

Three or four songs, recorded at TRESOHR Studios at no cost to the artist. No application, no selection process - if you played our stage, the studio door is open. A rare gift in an industry where studio time is expensive and access is unequal.

02

Professional Video & Audio

World-class studio sound and multi-camera filming turn each session into a keepsake — and a career tool. The production values match what any major label would deliver. The intimate format delivers something they often can't: authenticity.

03

Tools For Growth

These recordings help artists book gigs, reach new fans, and build momentum long after the festival weekend. For emerging artists especially, a set of professional-quality performance videos can be the thing that opens the next door. We help artists chase their next step.

Music With A Mission

GIVING BACK,
EVERY SESSION

The Static Roots Sessions are about community, support, and making a difference. Just as every cent from our merchandise supports Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières / ÄoG), these sessions are another way of giving back.

When you watch a Session, share it, or come to the festival because of one - you're part of that. You're helping artists chase their dreams while supporting life-saving work around the world.

"When you buy a ticket, grab a t-shirt, or show up to soak in the music - you're helping artists chase their dreams while supporting life-saving work around the world."

-- Dietmar Leibecke, Static Roots Festival

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