Songs tell long stories, ramble on and on. People in the Salzkammergut also like to tell stories. Words twisted to the point of incomprehensibility. The concert project Song/Song brings together different narrative forms in music in one evening. One of the performance venues, Bad Aussee in the Inner Salzkammergut, refers to the double meaning of the word “song”. In English it means “song”, but in the Bavarian and Upper Austrian dialect it also means “saga”, i.e. storytelling. This evening’s journey takes us from the village stories of the West African griots to the mysterious yoiks from the Scandinavian north (Karelia), from the linguistic wit of Viennese song singers to the epic tales of early music and the eloquence of Alpine Gstanzln. The musical flashes are linked and interwoven by the great Austrian storyteller, Michael Köhlmeier.
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