Jazz an der Donau

Bluetone - The Festival on the Danube is the successor of the festival Jazz on the Danube, which was organized in 1987 in Vilshofen and from 2002 in Straubing since 2012. The multi-day music festival Bluetone takes place in Straubing on Hagen. There internationally known artists from pop, rock and jazz are presented.

Beginnings in Vilshofen

In Vilshofen there since the 60s a dedicated regional jazz scene in the early 80s in a club, the jazz and music lovers Vilshofen, organized itself. This association held in the summer of 1987, his first international jazz festival " on the Danube" with renowned artists such as the Crusaders, Tito Puente and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. From the beginning, the festival was characterized by its friendly atmosphere that showed up about the fact that artists and audiences were not strongly separated from each other, as is common on many similar festivals. Despite many problems managed the festival, mainly thanks to the perseverance of the main sponsors to survive the first year and to get into the festival scene a name.

Moving to Straubing

The technical and organizational requirements imposed by the ever-growing festival, could Vilshofen in particular because of the limited space at the festival space are no longer satisfied, so in 2002 after the move upriver to Straubing. There, the festival underwent a decisive transformation, away from the often improvised, but family structure towards more professionalism, which was also regretted by many regular visitors to some extent. Simultaneously with the expansion of capacity was an extension of the genres associated, which continues to this day, for example, with performances by Seal, Roger Cicero 2007 and Santana 2009.

So far occurred artist

As the festival was held in Vilshofen to unknown artists held with jazz greats such as Tito Puente, the balance was being increasingly set to newcomers and ( then unknown ) talents. Artists who appeared, were, among others, Lester Bowie, Willem Breuker collective deep, Trio Bravo, Willem van Manen 's Contraband, Ulla Oster Septet, Elvin Jones Jazz Machine, Andy Emler Mega Octet, Paquito D' Rivera Quintet, Old passions, Susan Weinert band Brass buffet

Around since 2002 were internationally known artists like Candy Dulfer & Friends, Klaus Doldinger 's Passport, Al Jarreau, Chaka Khan, Wülker, BB King, Diana Ross, Nigel Kennedy, Till Bronner, Solomon Burke, Sergio Mendes headliners for the festival.

Besides well-known artists from the jazz scene occurred in recent years increasingly also pop musicians that you would not get at first sight with a jazz festival in conjunction, such as Mousse T., Juanes, Söhne Mannheims or Seal and Carlos Santana.

In Blutone include the following artists performed on: