The Paul Bartsch Acoustic Trio will be back on tour on the Baltic Sea coast in 2025.
On Wednesday, 24 September at 8 pm, the musicians from Halle will perform their program "Märchen aus kommenden Tagen" at the "Haus des Gastes" in Kirchdorf.
Together with his long-time musical collaborators Sander Lueken (keyboards, vocals) and Thomas Fahnert (guitar, violin, vocals), Paul Bartsch garnishes his optimistic song poetry with a powerful mix of folk, blues, rock and chanson - the result is an entertaining, sometimes thought-provoking but always encouraging treat in search of the possible in our changing world.
Singer-songwriter Paul Bartsch, who lives in Halle (Saale) and is a generational companion of Gundermann and Wenzel, is a literary scholar by training. It is therefore obvious that many of his texts contain literary allusions, motifs and references, with the world of fairy tales and myths proving particularly fruitful. It is by no means a case of "Once upon a time...", but rather a question of how the Town Musicians, the golden fish, the dwarves who have lost their jobs or the frog who has to land on the wall to become a prince fit into today's world. And about what Sisyphus, Odysseus and Icarus still have to tell us. And even the Knight of the Sad Countenance, together with his loyal squire, pulls himself together to make the world a little better. All of this leads to the poetic realization that the fairy tales of days to come will not conjure up a "way forward", but rather a "it could be": a full life between childhood and old age, the search for an unknown land and the need for home and security.
