Festival komm.st

Tailor-made kick-off with Radio Rabenwald

New music in old places is the guiding principle for the komm.st festival in Eastern Styria, which Roland Gratzer founded with like-minded people 13 years ago. The 2024 season kicks off on April 6 with a concert by Radio Rabenwald.

Alongside the komm.st LAB, the legendary Zetzboch Stüberl in Anger is one of the festival's fixtures. However, numerous other venues have been added in recent years: Külml Castle, for example, which has its own focus in summer, the Tabor Church in Weiz and the parish church in Anger.

Big comeback
This year's program starts with a concert that brings a long-awaited reunion with an extraordinary formation. Radio Rabenwald is an all-star band, so to speak, with a colorful mixture of frequencies for the ear canals in its program. It is made up of singer and lyricist Gerhard Almer, Berndt Luef on vibraphone, guitarist Peter Taucher, Alfred Lang on trumpet, drummer Jörg Haberl and saxophonist Georg Gratzer. Together, the six develop a sound that has it all. This comeback concert can be experienced at the Zetzboch Stüberl on April 6 at 9 pm.

The next highlight awaits on 15 May, when Georg Gratzer and Klemens Bittmann invite you to an evening in memory of Walter Kratner at the Taborkirche in Weiz. A reading with texts by Elisabeth Semrad and Roland Gratzer and lots of music will follow on 29 May, before the Schick Sisters and Bartolomey Bittmann perform at Külml komm.st in August.

Creative tree planting
And of course there is also komm.st organic hacking again this year: together with schools in Floing, Puch, Anger and Weiz, the komm.st team will be planting and caring for trees and shrubs in the Hofbauer Landscape Park in Weiz on April 23rd, which - creatively influenced - grow particularly well.