This morning we return to our musical meanderings around Europe. We pay our first visit to Austria where we encounter The Heimatdamisch who provide a very unusual take on the traditional Oompah band from the region. The 8-person formation around their band leader, arranger, drummer and musical boss Florian Rein demonstrates how well current chart hits, rock classics and pop songs of the 80s and 90s work in the Oberkrainer sound. Front woman and singer Conny Kreitmeier joined shortly after the band was founded. Other band members also played in well-known formations, for example tuba player Konrad Sepp with the Unterbiberger Hofmusik or Sebastian Horn.
The Heimatdamisch covers internationally known pop and rock music hits in the style of the Oberkrainervolksmusikstil (a special type of Slovenian folk music), among others. by AC / DC, Guns n ’Roses, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Nena, Eurythmics, The White Stripes and others; also with “Special Guest” Alexx Wesselsky 2020 in the Kurhaus Bad Tölz.
The band appears with a changing line-up across Europe, for the first time in 2014 at the Woodstock of brass music and in the same year with a concert broadcast by BR at the “Oidn Wiesn”. The Heimatdamisch included the musical supporting program for the 2016 Bavarian Cabaret Prize, which was broadcast on the BR.
The band had international concert inquiries shortly after it was founded and could be seen in France at the Open Air Meuh’zik Festival 2017 at Soultzeren and in 2018 as part of an Oktoberfest event in the “Galaxie” of Amnéville, as in 2018 at the Dutch “Paaspop” festival or in 2020 at the “Little Oktoberfest” (Malý Oktoberfest) in the Pilsen DEPO2015 creative centre, Czech Republic.
The Heimatdamisch have achieved great popularity through various television appearances, but above all through its YouTube videos. The video for their Guns n’Roses cover version “Sweet Child o’ Mine “has so far received over 6 million clicks on YouTube. Your video “Highway to Hell”, which was posted on Facebook in 2017, reached over 34 million.
They have received invitations for 2020 from the United States and Brazil, among others, but could not be accepted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their next appearance at Woodstock of brass music is planned for 2021.
