Not all Wiesbaden is posh...
by darmstaedter at 00:32
Thanks to Pierre for proposing in his comment to my previous post one of the bests plans for this weekend: the Folklore im Garten festival of Wiesbaden. A no-miss for next year.First of all, the location was great, it was in the forest surrounding Schloss Freudenberg, a pine wood that reminded me a lot to Spain, or any mediterranean land for that matter. The schloss had some color-changing lighting big setup that gave the whole place an eerie feeling.
Second, because of the festival in itself: tons of people, stands/tents selling in the festival market almost anything from clothes to furniture, food stands from any corner of the world, the children's corner with activities for kids and not such kids like building your own kite or boomerang, a camping place for the people that wanted to give it all and stay the whole weekend, and of course the stages and the outdoors DJ disco, where they played ... well, music, many kinds of music. From what I tried of the food I wanna highlight a place serving pizzas made in a three storey holzofen, and a place serving fair trade coffee from Nicaragua (one point less for them for serving it in Nescafé mugs).
About the music, actually the two concerts I saw were quite cool. The first one from Les Babacools, a group from München playing rock and ska, with a bit of hip hop in it. They sing in German, English, French and perfect Spanish (as soon as I heard them say "A la puta mierda con todo, te escupo en la cara", I knew I was going to stay near that stage and could not stop laughing). The second one we saw complete was the 17 Hippies, in their webpage is how Pierre found about the festival, a group from Berlin with some folk, hippy 60's rock -nobody had guessed that, right?- and easteuropean influenced music. Quite funny, they really connected to the people, one could not stop jumping, laughing and dancing, seeing how much fun they were having themselves on the stage.
But now... it is time for bed, tomorrow working day again. Weekends are always so short!Demasiado cansado ahora, que mañana se curra, quizás lo traduzca un día de estos...
Zu müde um weiter zu schreiben, Morgen ist ein Werktag. Vielleicht übersetze ich es ein anderes Mal...
1 Comments:
Hi Dan!
Finally I could have a look at your website, how cool to see it comes in all languages (like the Babacools, best band from Munich except for the Sportfreunde!).
I've been on the Folklore im Garten as well and can only support what you wrote, it's defenitely great. Thinking of the few Euros we had to pay in order to enter, I remember how Kettcar (another very great band, this time from Hamburg) said "Now that we heard the entrance is only seven Euros, we'll have a beer brake after every song because today you can afford it!"
Uf widerluege!
intsch