Moers Festival

The Moers Festival is an international music festival in Moers on the Lower Rhine (North Rhine -Westphalia). It took place from 1972 to 2010 in four days at Pentecost and has been shortened to three days because of urban austerity measures from 2011. From 2014 the festival will be extended again in four days.

History

International New Jazz Festival Moers (1972-2005)

Burkhard Hennen organized in 1972 as artistic director of the International New Jazz Festival Moers, with the support of Culture representatives of the city of Moers. The Free Jazz Festival quickly established itself in the national and international scene of free jazz.

In the first years of the Courtyard of Moers Castle was the venue for the artists. Then we moved in 1975, the festival in the nearby amusement park, as the concerts attracted more and more visitors. After several years in the open air with many downpours the Jazz Festival from 1983 to 1986 was transferred to the Moers ice rink, since 1987 the festival will take place in the biggest circus tent in Europe once again at the Moers amusement park. Hens extended in 1979, the festival in the mornings with " projects ", where improvised musicians from different groups together.

From 1979, the WDR - TV, the festival drew regularly and later expanded cooperation with radio broadcasts and recordings in the transmitters and WDR 3 WDR 5 In 2002, the program manager of the WDR urged to have a say in designing the program. As the WDR had previously withdrawn increasingly from the television recording and the morning improvisational projects for " not able to transmit " thought, was the last straw for hens and he terminated the contract with the transmitter on. The public radio station NPS the nearby Netherlands transfers since 2001 live concerts.

In 1985, hens another series in the festival, which African Dance Night, which not only a new musical spectrum opened, but has also become an attractive offer to non- jazz fans from the region. African superstars such as Mori edge, Salif Keita, Cheb Mami or Youssou N'Dour came on and brought the audience to dance. This event was conducted in Moers ice rink, most recently in 2005.

Over time, the music character of the festival expanded from pure, free jazz and world music to the commuters of popular music today such as soul, funk, hip-hop. Understanding the festival organizers of Free advanced music and differentiated constantly, experimental and improvised music discovered and presented them increasingly in the musical styles of other ethnic groups, " the jazz- typical phenomenon of improvisation [ is ] for centuries in other music cultures .. maintained. ". Some music critics saw this as a resolution of jazz, others welcomed this development. The list of top-class musicians that have occurred over the years at the festival is long. Among other things, played Cecil Taylor, Lester Bowie, Anthony Braxton, Peter Brötzmann, John Carter, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Mars Williams, Shibusa Shirazu, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Ornette Coleman, to name a few musicians.

Moers Festival (2006-2013)

After 34 years, Burkhard Hennen was in 2005, the artistic director of the festival because of further quarrels with the Moers city administration. As the new artistic director was " Kultur GmbH Moers Festival " Reiner Michalke used by the newly formed. Since 2006, it bears the word mark Moers festival. With the change of the organizer was replaced by nocturnal projects around the festival site in downtown from 2006, the one-day African Dance Night.

The tight financial budget of the city was taken in May 2010 as an opportunity to radically re- draw all components of the festival in doubt. So it has been considered from 2011 all campers to participate in the financing or to strike the Whit Monday. Supervisory Board members, founded in 2005 Festival Moers Kultur GmbH also want the new artistic director Reiner Michalke replace " parts of the political elite of Moers hope for an abolition of the festival" In the summer of 2010, the Moers City Council approved a cancellation of Whit Monday as the event addition since. . 2011, a fee for the night in a tent required by the visitors, who may not have a valid ticket to the concert tent.

Owed by the city of Moers financial rolls on the cultural sector a further austerity wave came: " Great Cultural events such as the Moers Festival should definitely are up for grabs. " A " string list " beginning in June 2012, published as part of the fiscal consolidation plan envisages the festival from 2014 not to promote more. In order to save the festival for Moers NRW, is currently a promotion of NRW in conversation. Thus, the festival is a solid concert site ( " Festival Hall Moers " ), get with a capacity of up to 2000 visitors.

Improviser in Residence

As part of the festival was in 2008 (in cooperation with take - Network Improvised Music Moers ) established the Improviser - in-Residence project in which a musician lived for a year in the city of Moers, operates and organizes concerts. As a point of contact for projects and artistic co-productions, he works with children, adolescents and adults. For 2014, Reiner Michalke, the jazz pianist Julia Hülsmann selected.

Previous Improviser in Residence:

The project is financed by the Cultural Foundation NRW.

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