Latest news from the universe of Hotel Palindrone:
23 Oct 2008
Ballsaal - with Crucible (Sheffield / UK)
At our next Ballsaal (Thu Oct 30) at OST Klub we have the honour to welcome a phantastic band from Sheffield / England: Crucible: the quartet does not only play with extraordinary groove and smoothness, but also they are great singers!
We will play for the dance as well - of course!
Helena Davenport, the fiddle and bagpipes player of Crucible, will also lead the dance crash course, with exciting : some beautiful English Ceilidh dances will be featured as well as French dances from the Bal Folk repertoire: Bourree-variations, Saut basque and the Breton Kost ar c'Hoat.
As usual: 19:00 dance crash course, from 20:45 live bands on stage
Admissions:
* full price 12€,
* reduced (students, pupils, civil servants) 8€.
Dance crash course included!
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29 Apr 2008
"Bravos!!!!"
Our CD "Dial 1702" has been awarded the "Bravos!!!!" by well renowned French "Trad Magazine". Makes us happy, as you will guess! :-)
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07 Sep 2007
The new CD: "Dial 1702"
Fresh from the factory: our new CD "Dial 1702" has arrived!
We're really happy with it - more infos and sound files coming soon. Stay tuned!
It will be presented to the public on september 8 in Vienna.
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12 Jul 2007
Summer comes
The weather seems more appropriate for October - apart from this, the summer of 07 is making a real good start!
The first festival we've had the honour to be invited to was Gooikoorts (www.gooikoorts.be) in Belgium - a great festival for traditional folk music from all over Europe. It proved great! There was everything: very nice bands in the range from traditional to slighly modern (our favourite was probably Xarnege, a basque-gascoigne-collaboration, playing on saturday evening). Good sessions, excellent dancing, a nice instruments exhibition, great belgian beer and a wonderful caring festival staff...
This definitely makes Gooikoorts a recommendation for people, who are already overfed with hyped, crowded, noisy festivals (sadly, our beloved St. Chartier turned into one of these...), but still want a lot of exciting things happening. Thanks a lot for organizing this, and much success for the future! A special thanks to Walter, our friendly and generous host, and to Patrick de Loecker, for inviting us... we'd love to return some day.
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28 May 2007
back from Mexico - Ollin Kan Festival
Mexico te queremos! We had a great time, exhausting, full of impressions, colours, sounds... we learned to know a lot of great people, saw pyramids, the Zocalo and Frida Kahlo's home. Definitely memories to remain!
Thanks a lot to all - the Ollin Kan festival for inviting us, the Austrian culture forum for their support. And a special "gracias" goes to the attendants, in particular Eduardo for the wonderful and supportive way he took care of us.
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10 Apr 2007
back from Ballsaal Palindrone
Turkey, Austria and Africa together! Thanks to Mansur Bildik and all the great turkish musicians, Thanks to Coleman and the public. It was a great evening!
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19 Dec 2006
Hotel Palindrone on Myspace
"Social Networking"... Hotel Palindrone are part of that big network now, and very happy about your visit on www.myspace.com/hotelpalindrone.
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16 Dec 2006
Back from Switzerland
Another week... many kilometers on the road, lots of different impressions: yes, it's been great! (Sort of curious, though, that this was the first time ever we made it to our western neighbours: we'll definitely love to come back!)
Many thanks to Niki Fliri from Innsbruck, the great team of Folkclub Zürich, Tom Albatros of "Dolder 2" in Feuerthalen and Franz und Sabina at the "Pöschtli" in Aeugstertal. And, of course, to the great audiences - we've had a phantastic time and enjoyed all of the performances immensely!
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10 Nov 2006
HOTEL PALINDRONE at WOMEX 06 - world music expo in Sevilla
"The world is colourful, friendly and sounds absolutely fantastic!" ... that's the overall impression one gets after 5 days at this international meeting place, where every year thousands of different people engaged in the field of world music learn to know each others - a great mosaique of musicians, media, labels, organizers, promoters from all over the world. In 2006, Hotel Palindrone played in Borneo by the medium of EuRoots - negotiations for 2007 are in process ;-)
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15 Oct 2006
Videos online now!
Thanks to new technological possibilities (Youtube.com), you can watch some videos now online on our website. What a delight!
Have a look here!
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05 Sep 2006
New Website
As you can see, the new website is finally online. It's not yet 100% ready, still we are already quite happy with it - although some details will still have to be refined.
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14 Jun 2006
HP in the summer of 06
The summer's going to be great! Apart from our appearance at the Rainforest World Music Festival, we will have the opportunity to enjoy:
- a nice gig in Vienna at the great Theater am Spittelberg,
- the premiere of Woodquarter's Wackelsteinfestival,
- a gig in Großklein/Styria, organized by Weiberhof.
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07 Jun 2006
Preparing for Malaysia
All Palotes are now vaccinated and well informed, waiting for the flight bringing us to the rain forest festival in Malaysia.
Or similar.
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05 Jun 2006
The Garden Dwarf's Bloody Revenge!
he comes to pick the little beanies,
the eeny-weeny-beany-teanies,
the cabbage t'was burned and annoyed,
my poor leek being killed and destroyed.
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03 Jun 2006
Hotel Palindrone World Champions!
The world champions in the yearly rose bug eating competition is again Hotel palindrone! Stoney: "they taste like rice crispies, really" - brrrhhh!!!
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