THE STORY

TUNE UP – AWARD WINNING FOLKBAND

TUNE UP was founded in 1998 and won several prizes in music contests:

Musikpreis                 Stadt Oberkochen 1999
1. Preis                        Landeswettbewerb ‘Jugend und Folklore‘ 1999
1. Publikumspreis    Landeswettbewerb ‘Jugend und Folklore‘ 1999
1. Preis                        Landeswettbewerb ‘Jugend und Folklore‘ 2001
1. Publikumspreis    Landeswettbewerb ‘Jugend und Folklore‘ 2001

TUNE UP is sometimes called a „two-generation-band“ – a perfect combination of younger and older musicians.

TUNE UP in Miltown Malbay Ireland

One essential aspect of Irish music is to pass on the tunes to the next generation through playing and singing together, thus keeping the heritage alive.
TUNE UP offers stories of celtic history and bravery with a musical accompaniment played on a wide range of instruments: tin whistle, concert flute, Uilleann pipes, Northumbrian smallpipes, fiddle, bouzouki, guitar, bass, dulcimer, Celtic harp, spoons and bodhrán – not to forget their close harmony singing.

TUNE UP at the Landesgartenschau in Villingen-Schwenningen September 2010
Photography by Heinz Schaeffer

TUNE UP plays tunes and songs, tells stories and gives background information on the songs. TUNE UP’s s concerts have been well-reviewed by the press in Germany, and appreciated by audiences – in concerts, in pubs, and while busking in various places in Germany and Ireland…

TUNE UP in Freiburg

TUNE UP playing at an Irish Music Festival …same stage as Paddy Keenan and Bachelor’s Walk

TUNE UP in Waiblingen

TUNE UP playing tunes and songs to a picture show about Ireland and Scotland.

at the CELTIC NIGHT

TUNE UP getting prepared and playing live in Shakespeare´s „A Midsummer Night´s Dream“.

Heidenheim
Photography G. Luiz

TUNE UP playing live to an audience of 3500 at the „Landesgartenschau 2006“

TUNE UP playing at the CELTIC NIGHT on the SHOWSTAGE of the „Landesgartenschau 2006“

St. Patrick’s Day 2007 – TUNE UP at the „Celtic Folk Night / Schotten-Party“.

Photography: M Johnstone avp-multimedia.de schwarzwaelder-bote.de

The Irish took their music with them when they left their island. It is now to be found all over the world. In the Appalachian Mountains Hillbilly and Bluegrass Music is much influenced by Irish roots. Michael joins in on a borrowed guitar.

At the famous FLOYD COUNTRY STORE’s „FRIDAY NITE JAMBOREE“ in Floyd / Virginia June 2007