OFF: Burg Herzberg

[Keith Henderson]

Folks...

Here's the latest info on this year's BurgHerzberg festival.  Did I read
that right?  The Supremes and Magma playing at the same event?  What might
the new millenium bring?

And....Phish is neo-prog?  And Spock's Beard is 'most popular'?
Whatever, it's their festival.

Keith H. (FAA)
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Movement of the Hippies/Think Progressive present:
The European Hippie-Meeting

BurgHerzberg Open Air
>From 15. – 18.July 1999
-Cry for freedom-

This year`s Burg Herzberg Open Air Festival has the motto `Cry for
freedom`. The organizers of the festival want to promt people for a
critical view of this bloody century(have a look to the editorial in our
web-site after May 1999 – http://www.think-progressive.de).

The biggest European Peace- & Hippiemeeting will last 4 days,
this year starting Thursday, July 15.1999

Opening: Thursday, July 15th-9.30 pm: –special- Faust wakes
Nosferatu- Faust the most important German group in the field of experimental
music, sets live music to Murnau`s silent movie `Nosferatu`.
This show is the third part of the live project(part 1 took place in
Berlin, part 2 in Kassel) and the CD `Faust wakes Nosferatu` was
recorded from those projects.The show on the Herzberg Festival is
titled: `Des Grauens 3. Teil`.

Friday, July 16th –6.pm: The Flowerkings from Sweden will open
the Friday evening. This band belongs to one of the most important
representatives of the Neo-Prog-Rock-Scene. They have to be counted
besides Phish and Spock`s Beard to the most popular and qualitative acts
in this field.

It`s Motown time. The Supremes, girl group from the 60`ties, formed
beside others the Motown sound and will be one of the headliners of the
festival. The band had worlwide more than 25 top hits and became famous
all over the world during the time with Diana Ross.

Pentangle and Fairport Convention will start a special at 11.pm. Both
bands have their origin in the British folk scene.  This will be the
first time that both bands play together in Germany. Beause of this
fantastic and nonrecurring event, this show will be recorded so that a
CD will be available later.

Saturday, July 17th-12.pm: Hank Shizzoe and his band Loose Gravel
(Switzerland) will open this day of the festival with Roots-Rock
sounding more American than any original. (The only open air show in
Germany this year)

Magma,the French Jazz-Ethno formation will  enter the stage next.  The
formation around Christian Vander was one of the highlights of the
Ethno-motion in the early seventies. Last year, Magma and Mari Boine have
been the headliners of the `Leverkusener Jazztage`.

Spock`s Beard are the up-shooters of the Neo-Prog scene. We mentioned
them already in context with the Flowerkings.  However, their drummer is
also drumming for Genesis now.

There is no doubt, Eric Burdon is one of the most important musicians
and personalities in the Hippie scene. Eric is a musician that can look
back to a very long carrier. He will fascinate his fans together with
the lately formed `New Animals`.

There are songs, nobody will forget and which are milestones in music
history.  One of these songs is Ìn- a gadda-da-vida`. Iron Butterfly
will appear on Herzberg Festival with 3 orginal founding members: Doug
Ingle, Ron Bushy and Lee Dorman. New member of the band is Eric Barnett.
The audience will be carried away by their old and new songs.

Sunya Beat has been discovery of last years Herzberg Festival. Axel
Heilecker, Harald Grosskopf and Steve Baltes (both from @shra Tempel)
will present there new CD and will perform their trance- psychedelic
sound into the late night to calm the audience after a long day of music
and celebration for a few hours of sleep.

Sunday, July 18th – 11.am : The tent-city awakes. Ole Lukkoye from
St.Petersburg will start the new day with Russian world music.

Then Mari Boine (Norway) will enter the stage. She belongs to the Sami
people of Norway. Mari Boine is an unusal artist. Unusal because it`s
not possible to compare her with any other artist.  Her music is however
not traditional Sami music, but the `joik`of the Sami people is a heavy
influence on her music and so the tradition is blended with contemporary
musicforms such as jazz, rock and the music of other peoples cultures.

The end of the festival will be celebrated by a band,which is not
confirmed until now, it will be a surprise.

Beside the main-stage, there is a second stage, called Prog-stage, which
gives the possibility to 6 newcomer bands to present themselves and
their music to a bigger audience.

Advanced tickets: phone 0049(0) 6684 919388
e-mail: think.progessive at t-online.de

3-day ticket (Fr.-Sa.-Su.) in advance 75,-DM & charge    doors 85,-DM
special Faust in advance 12,-DM & charge    doors 15,-DM

We are expecting a large amount of visitors similar to the festival of
the last year. Therefore we are advising to purchase tickets in
advance regarding the limited space of the festival ground.

Again we are asking our visitors to support the initiated waist
project.Take care !