Wenzel & Band - Strandgut der Zeiten - Tour 2025
In the gray morning hours, between doubts and fatigue, the songs find their final form. The world is out of joint. At the damaged spots of our hope, melodies and words search for the right place. Songs carried by gentle and certain tones of guitars, bass, accordion, brass, drums, and piano play in the unrepeatable hours of concerts for the dance. HAPPY TO BE ALIVE. A hold on elemental truths, despite all ideological divisions. Celebrating life as a victory against the destructive, against wars and demagoguery. Music is a faithful companion in this.
Wenzel remains true to himself and cares neither for boxes nor fashionable attitudes. His work draws from an almost inexhaustible source. In recent years, Wenzel has surprised with many CD productions. New, unpublished songs, settings of Johannes R. Becher, Christoph Hein, Theodor Kramer, Woody Guthrie. On 04.10.2024, Wenzel will release his new CD & Vinyl "Strandgut der Zeiten" with his own lyrics and compositions.
Heavy-hearted, life-hungry, subversive, warm-hearted, cynical, finely crafted, and direct. In doing so, Wenzel remains a refugee from the demands of the world. With bittersweet irony, he defies the heavy sea. A lover who has never loved halfway and never played softly with his jester's bells, one who dishes out and takes a full serving, a wise man on whose ark the eternal pairs embrace: happiness and anger, love and time, flight and shelter, moment and epoch.
First and last day.
Wenzel is an author, composer, musician, singer, actor, and director. Tours have taken him through France, Austria, America, Nicaragua, Cuba, Turkey, among others. Wenzel has shared the stage with Arlo Guthrie, Randy Newman, Billy Bragg, Konstantin Wecker, and many other musicians. Wenzel has received awards such as the GOLDEN AMIGA, the Heinrich Heine Prize, the German Cabaret Prize, the Prize of the German Record Critics, as well as the Prize of the Best Song List. In 2023, a documentary film about Wenzel "Wenzel - Never believe what I sing" was released in cinemas.
CAST
Wenzel: Vocals, Guitar, Accordion, Piano, Bass
Hannes Scheffler: Guitars, Bass, Vocals
Thommy Krawallo: Guitars, Bass, Vocals
Stefan Dohanetz: Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Manuel Abreu: Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Jason Liebert: Trombone, Sousaphone
Doors open at 18:00.