Jazz is conquering Salzburg’s old town again
According to festival director Tina Heine, many of the around 100 events should take place in larger, airy rooms to reduce the risk of CoV infections.
There are many regular guests, such as the Berlin vocalist Almut Kühne, the New York-based musician Volker Götze, the drummer Alfred Vogel from Bezau and the Luxembourg vibraphonist Pascal Schumacher. “It’s nice to have a continuity of accomplices, to be able to check things out,” says Heine. But there will also be many new faces to see.
In the footsteps of Bob Dylan worldwide
A festival focus is dedicated to the American superstar Bob Dylan. 18 students from the Mozarteum University traveled to four continents this summer in search of Dylan’s traces in global culture. The travelers were inspired and returned with productions of music, performance and painting in their luggage. They will present their research results as part of the “With Bob Dylan on the road” project.
Walks with artists
The program item “Hidden Tracks” also promises to be exciting: Artists invite you to take walks to their favorite places. The participants are picked up, but do not know beforehand where the discovery tour will lead them. For children and young people there are backstage tours, street dance workshops, the “Jazz Kids” and also “Hidden Tracks – for youngsters only”. And a jazz flat share will also inspire the old town again, explained Altstadtverband chairman Andreas Gfrerer.
Various performances
Welsh singer, pianist and standup comedian Ian Shaw will perform the opening concert on October 13th at 7.30pm at the Salzburg Scene. And also in the scene, the Ukrainian performer Mariana Sadovska will enter into a dialogue with the percussionist Max Andrzejewski & Ensemble with “Songs of Wounding”, which circles around the dark and the pain. Sadovska recalled forgotten vocal techniques during field recordings in Czech villages. Another program highlight will take place in Gallery 5020: for three days, the author Natascha Gangl and the composers Maja Osojnik and Matija Schellander will explain a room there as a resonance space for the artist Unica Zürn, an icon of surrealism.
Open-air sessions at the cathedral
There is again a large open-air stage on the Residenzplatz. It is also played in the Salzburg Marionette Theater, in the Markussaal, in the Heckentheater, in the Kunstverein and in the Traklhaus. In the “House of Impro” in the Collegiate Church and in the former Mexican cellar, which is now the jazz cellar of the art hotel “Blaue Gans”, as well as in the Toihaus, artists meet for a blind date.
An app provides better orientation through the program items and provides information about the spontaneous activities of the festival. You can put together your favorites from the program and the push alert function will remind you 15 minutes before the start of their performance. This new app “Altstadt Events” was developed by the Pongauer software company bitminds OG in cooperation with the festival organizer, Altstadt Marketing GmbH.