For the opening of our stage in the Weindorf, we are reviving the hot, driving sound of juke joints and ballrooms. Anyone who thought that the Vienna-based band had released their most original album to date with their last album "Different" (2021) will be proven wrong: standing still is not part of the band's vocabulary. "Friendly Fire" is the name of the latest [...]
In 2023, Mr Žarko released their third studio album "L'amour fatal". With one laughing and one crying eye, it's about stories inspired by love, its blindness, beauty and fatality. Passion is the origin of everything, it is great, powerful, mighty. Lust meets pain. Mr Žarko conjure up with their new songs and [...]
At the last International Danube Festival, Lord Mayor Gunter Czisch and jazz musician Aleksandar Dujin, from Novi Sad in Serbia, gave the Ulm audience a taste of their musical skills on the Weindorfbühne stage. In an expanded constellation - Aleksandar Dujin on piano, Nevena Reljin on vocals, Gunter Czisch on drums, Ulrich Kuhn on bass and Berthold Fischer on [...]
The city of Osijek lies on the banks of the Drava in the east of Slavonia, around 20 kilometres before it flows into the Danube. The Hungarian state border is around 45 kilometres to the north and it is around 40 kilometres to Serbia. South of Osijek, after about 75 kilometres, you reach Bosnia and Herzegovina. And just like [...]
"Sensuality and eroticism, silence, sadness, brutality ..." - These are just some of the sides of life that you can hear and feel at a concert by the Piazzolleky Quintet from Slovenia - music full of Balkan temperament, passion and lifeblood for the tango: music that touches and moves in equal measure! The five excellent professional musicians of the Piazzolleky Quintet inspire [...]
The city of Osijek lies on the banks of the Drava in the east of Slavonia, around 20 kilometres before it flows into the Danube. The Hungarian state border is around 45 kilometres to the north and it is around 40 kilometres to Serbia. South of Osijek, after about 75 kilometres, you reach Bosnia and Herzegovina. And just like [...]
Founded in 1988, the IVECO Big Band has been delighting its guests at dance balls and concerts in Germany and abroad ever since. Ute Konrad-Uhl has been the musical director of the IVECO Big Band since 2005. The great atmosphere in the band and the fun between the musicians is reflected on stage. The repertoire of the 22-piece band now includes [...]
The musical home of the Paper Moon Trio from Slovakia is the 20s, 30s and 40s of the last century. Whether Nat King Cole's song "It's only a paper moon" was the inspiration for their name is unclear, but musically it certainly was. Three enchanting voices, in outfits, looks and with song material from this period, so [...]
"Musically, Sketches On Duality have made themselves at home between hip hop and jazz. At first glance, this is no longer such a rare combination, but in the case of this Viennese band, founded in 2015, it takes on a slightly different direction than one might initially expect. This is mainly [...]
Henning Dampel has been shaking up the Ulm jazz scene for several years with virtuoso and atmospheric jazz piano. Creativity and improvisation are clearly in the foreground for him - and even if it sounds really jazzy here and there: a harmonious sound is always important to him. His penchant for Cuban montuno music, such as that found in [...]
The duo from Budapest moves confidently and imaginatively through styles: jazz, drum'n'bass, jungle, hip hop, rap - all flavoured with effects and samples. Although their style is usually labelled as nu-jazz, even this classification only lasts until the lights go on in the club and the beat becomes danceable. The [...]
It is the idea of overcoming boundaries and discovering new horizons that lies behind the Donaufest Factory encounter project. In 2024, we will be presenting a special kind of concert evening for the fourth time. These special concerts are initiated and realised premieres of the Donaufest and promise unforgettable live moments. On this evening, the two formations will present their own repertoire, [...]
Sana Hanke and her friends present In the second part of the Ukrainian Wetschornyzi, Ukrainian musicians who have found their temporary home in Germany will play jazz and blues alongside the "Radz-Basist". Serhii Radzetskyi aka Radz-Bassist has worked with musicians such as Tony Levin ("Peter Gabriel Band"), Pat Mastelotto ("King Crimson"), Steve Hackett ("Genesis"), Ed Mann and Danny Wally [...]
With a hand-picked selection of songs and a large portion of fun on stage, the band creates a real urge to move and delivers an energetic programme that delights audiences across the region. Six4Blues has already celebrated successes in renowned blues clubs - for example in Lucerne and Rheinau in Switzerland, at the jazz club in Ehingen and [...]
Serbian DJ Jazzmate is no stranger to Ulm. At the turn of the millennium, he was part of the regular crew at Radio free FM with his jazzy electro programme "LeftOfCentre". Back home in Belgrade, his radio show "Balanso" continued the series and in 2012 Jazzmate was a guest at the Donaufest as a musical representative of the legendary station "B92". We are delighted [...]
