Musikmesse’s new look, consumer dominated, show continues to take shape and has added a line-up of music acts for its first Festival, which will spread the event throughout the city of Frankfurt after the show has closed for the day.
The organisers have now announced an initial list of artists who will appear within the framework of the festival, across numerous venues.
Headliners include:
Al Jarreau & the hr-Bigband
Renowned international jazz, pop and rhythm-and-blues musician Al Jarreau, is one of the leading singers of contemporary jazz and has released more than 20 albums in the course of his 50-year career. On 10th April, he will give a special concert together with the hr-Bigband in Saal Harmonie of Congress Centre Messe Frankfurt. Hits from Jarreau’s repertoire will be performed in orchestral form under the direction of Jörg Achim Keller.
Cicero Sings Sinatra
The current tour by multiple Echo winner Roger Cicero begins on 7th April with an appearance in Frankfurt. On the eve of the tour premiere and on the occasion of the opening of Musikmesse 2016, the artist and his big band will give an exclusive concert at the popular Gibson Club (6th April). Although intended primarily for invited guests, friends and supporters, there will also be a limited contingent of tickets for fans at the evening box office. For the first concert of the tour in Frankfurt’s Alte Oper event hall on the following evening, there is only a limited amount of tickets remaining.
BigCityBeats Birthday
BigCityBeats, one of the best-known brands on the German nightlife scene, will celebrate its birthday in Frankfurt on 8th April. DJ duo Axwell and Ingrosso from Swedish House Mafia will headline. Their set at the BigCityBeats Birthday is also the warm-up for the BigCityBeats World Club Dome 2016 at the Commerzbank Arena in June.
Eisbrecher
The pioneers of the Neue Deutsche Härte (New German Hardness) rock music will appear on the stage of the Jahrhunderthalle concert hall in Frankfurt on 8th April. Eisbrecher will give their only indoor show in Frankfurt this year as part of their Full Speed Ahead Tour. The Munich-based sextet is characterised by a special combination of hard guitar sounds and powerful electro elements. Their latest album, Schock, reached number two in the German album charts.
Laith Al-Deen
Born in Karlsruhe but raised in the US and Mannheim, Laith Al-Deen is one of Germany’s most successful pop musicians. Since his debut in 2000, he has sold over a million albums. He will give an exclusive concert at the Unionhalle on 7th April.
International German Piano Award with Joseph Moog and Andrejs Osokins
The official Musikmesse opening concert will be held in the Alte Oper on the eve of the fair, 6th April. It marks the climax of the International German Piano Award Festival and presents award-winning pianists Joseph Moog (Ludwigshafen) and Andrejs Osokins (Latvia). The artists will appear with a national and international orchestra comprising the strings of the Kremerata Baltica and the wind sector of the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra under the direction of Boian Videnoff. On the programme are works by Modest Mussorgsky, Robert Schumann, Anton Rubinstein and Franz Liszt.
The Dead Daisies
The all-star band consists of John Corabi (Mötley Crüe, The Scream), Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake, Dio), Marco Mendoza (Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake), Brian Tichy (Ozzy Osbourne, Foreigner) and David Lowy (Red Phoenix, Mink). After a highly successful tour of several continents, the band will appear as a special guest at Musikmesse on all four days – and play at Zoom in Frankfurt on Friday, 8th April.
In addition to the headliners, there will be numerous other concerts in clubs, off-locations, universities and churches. A full programme with details of all artists, acts and venues will be published in March. The Musikmesse Festival will take place in over 20 concert halls, clubs, discos and event locations in Frankfurt. As well as the Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre with its three stages (Agora Stage, Unplugged Stage, Beck’s Open Stage), they include: Alte Oper, Die Fabrik, Festhalle Frankfurt, Gibson, Hafen 2, Institut für neue Medien (INM), Jahrhunderthalle, Liebfrauenkirche, Orange Peel, PTH Sankt Georgen, Saal Harmonie im Congresscenter, The Cave, Unionhalle, Zoom and Zukunftspavillon auf dem Rossmarkt.
A special Festival Ticket giving visitors cheaper or even free admission to the events of the four-day Musikmesse Festival will be available. The ticket – a Festival wrist band and a voucher booklet – is free of charge for Musikmesse visitors and can be collected from all information counters at the Exhibition Centre. Members of the public buying the Festival Ticket for €15 at the box office of one of the Festival venues will receive a discount on the price of a Musikmesse admission ticket. There will be no advance sales of Festival Tickets or discounted individual tickets.
