New ORIGO folk music festival
Three days of singing, dancing and making music: From 24 to 26 April, the new ORIGO festival celebrates folk music in its lively and constantly changing form at the Mozarteum University and in the city of Salzburg - and thus sees itself as a platform that not only preserves folk music, but also makes it possible to experience it in all its dynamism and creativity.
This experience is organised in cooperation with the Salzburger Volksliedwerk, Salzburger Volkskultur, the province of Salzburg, the Musikum, the Vössing Foundation and the Tyrolean State Conservatory. There will be concerts, workshops, a symposium, dance festivals and street music for a wide audience - from schoolchildren to dance enthusiasts and folk music lovers. All events are free to attend.
‘Elisabeth Eder, Roland Mayer-Sams and Elisabeth Radauer have published a fantastic song booklet for the festival, in which the songs are not only printed, but the accompanying dances can also be found in the form of illustrations and videos. There are also very beautiful recordings of the songs, which were recorded by students of folk music at the Mozarteum,’ says ORIGO project manager Prof Dr Martin Losert.
The chromatic Salzburg hammered dulcimer will be given a special place in a symposium: ‘The Salzburg hammered dulcimer has had a decisive influence on folk music in the 20th century and is now celebrating its 90th birthday!’, says Heidelore Wallisch-Schauer, teacher of hammered dulcimer at the Department of Music Education in Salzburg and Innsbruck. The symposium with six contributions traces the history of the chromatic Salzburg dulcimer and attempts to localise the instrument in European music history. Speakers: Speakers: Dr Wolfgang Dreier-Andres, Salzburger Volksliedwerk; Prof. Gabriele Rossi Rognoni, Royal College of Music London; Prof. Teresa Chirico PhD, Conservatorio Statale Santa Cecilia di Roma; Prof. Dr Christian Ahrens, Ruhr University Bochum (ret.); Nadav Ovadia, Israel/Hamburg and Prof. Birgit Stolzenburg-de Biasio, University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.
Musicians from the Mozarteum University, the Musikum, winners of the Alpine Folk Music Competition and Herma-Haselsteiner Prize and the Tyrolean State Conservatory will present a diverse programme with very different line-ups in nine changing concerts. A multicultural dance festival will be organised at the Augustinerbräu Mülln for the Dance of Cultures. On the third day of the festival, squares in Salzburg's old town will be transformed into a stage for all those who love folk music and want to get involved spontaneously.