The letter for the sixth day of the tour was L, as in linoleum
9.30AM departure from the Erdmannhausen basecamp at Huober Brezel
2.10PM arrival at the Format D headquartes in Munich
2.20PM a fine home-made slice of cake with a revitalizing cofee, and an embedded presentation on Maremma and the Jug Band Colline Metallifere project, by Wolfgang and Jack O’Malley
3.32 customized “office concert”
ore 16.10 farewell and exchange of institutional tokens
1AM-2.30AM-3.26AM (on July 11) touchdown at the JBCM destinations (Pisa, Massa Marittima, Tatti)
To reconnect to the Tuscan setting, the last song from the afternoon presentation…an overall summary of the mission will follow sometime during the week. For more information and booking: jugbandcm@pibinko.org or whatsapp +393317539228
4.30PM end of the performance, followed, in addition to the usual urban dwellers, by a significant delegation of farmers from the surroundings. Several of them are Wolfgang’s friends and ex-colleagues
5PM the team decides to slightly defer the street music session to a later moment in the afternoon, just to have a bit of a cooler temperature…
7PM …the cooler temperature does not really arrive. The team decides to postpone the session to a future date, and returns to the base camp to prepare for the return trip.
As a video for today…a time machine back to 2019, always at TATTI STAY AND SEE
10AM departure from Erdmannhausen (our base camp) to Ludwigsburg
ore 10.30 organic breakfast
ore 11 cautiously advancing from Lindenstraße to Marktplatz, we reach the East side of the square for one hour of relaxing street music (this event was not inserted in the official program, but we liked the idea and it worked very well). Below is an excerpt from this session.
1PM return to the home base and preparations for the Huober Brezel Sommerfest
3PM …”and…ACTION”…with a progression which brought the participants through 11PM with various musical slots intertwined with food, drinks, and various active pastimes. Awesome unplugged closing session with a big mix of rock’n’roll, pizzica, musical, e some lesser known hits from the Cecina Valley.
The next gig will be this afternoon at TATTI STAY AND SEE, Pierre-Pflimlin-Platz 3, Stuttgart. Music starts at 3PM and will end at 4PM. After this (and a short break) we will proceed in one or more of the street music spots in the centre of the city (Königstraße etc.)
10AM – Animation at the “jubilaeum” fest for Helmut K.
1.06PM Departure for Freiberg, where the closest musical instrument shop is located. Simone needed guitar strings, and the other procured other accessories
4.03PM A very serious damage is found in Dario’s Martin guitar. The song list needs to be revised (but the show must go on)
4.46PM Departure for Waldheim Backnang bei Vesna
5.38PM Bowling lesson with Tony
6PM Setting up the stage with the “total Brezel look”
7PM off we go with the show
The next public event will be in the market square in Ludwigsburg this morning (for more information and booking: jugbandcm@pibinko.org or whatsapp +393317539228).
10.52AM Crossing of the Brenner Pass. Jack O’Malley and Wolfgang proposed an ancient propitiatory ritual prior to entering Austria (see the header image).
1.13 PM Close encounters with the first giant brezels in Irschenberg Sued
7.15PM The action starts at the Krone in Alt Hoheneck (Ludwigsburg). Below you see one of the “geomusical” moments, with Wolfgang explaining about the Metalliferous Hills, supported by Jack O’Malley’s geographic information systems.
9.04PM Crissi Mosselman e Fabian Sorg from Dizzy Bee, enter the stage, adding more rock’n’roll and funk vibes with their Sorgman X combo.
10PM the two lineups merge, for a jam session (excerpt below).
11.32PM The JBCM bids farewell to the friends from Krone.
Here we go…after a couple of warm-up events in Southern Tuscany, the Jug Band Colline Metallifere is taking off for Germany, for the central part of its 2023 Summer Tour, code name “Brezel”.
Waiting for the JBCM to perform again in Italy, we will be on July 6 in LudwisburgHoheneck at Krone, on July 7 in Waldheim in Backnang Bei Vesna, on the 8th in Erdmannhausen (for a private event), on 9th in Stuttgart at the Tatti Stay and See, and for some street music. Finally, on July 10 we will be in Munich (for another private event).
Once we are back in Tuscany, the JBCM in one of its trio line-ups (Canal, Scheibe, O’Malley) will then be on July 15 in Monterotondo Marittimo and on August 17 in Roccatederighi. More events are being planned. The Full tour schedule is available from this link.
As all of the band’s initiatives, the tour in Germany will intertwine musical entertainment with outreach related to our territories. We will bring with us a sample of the projects we are promoting, combining environment, agriculture, ancient traditions blended with innovative approaches and a necessary dose of irony. Together with our rock-blues-folk notes, you will find community maps, monitoring sensors, wheat, hand-made prints, and hand made balls, just as an example.
The Italian “news” section of the band is covering all the development of the tour, with many brezel-related items. After our return we will elaborate more on why we were inspired by this typical product for our Summer (we are also posting several updates in the English News section, but in this phase it is not simple to maintain the blog in both languages).
The schedule is subject to additions – for more information and booking: jugbandcm@pibinko.org or whatsapp +393317539228. Please also check out this page for more details on each event.
