Galahad
Galahad
– folk rock, crossover –
Saturday, August 19, 2017 [7:00 p.m.]
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There isn't much that compares and certainly no drawer that you could put the music of GALAHAD in. Elements of rock, music from the Middle Ages and classic merge with a dash of Irish-Celtic mysticism to create an idiosyncratic, individual style. A varied instrumentation underlines this musical complexity.
Countless live events in Germany (including “Newcomer of the Year” at the WDR Folk Prize, West 3 television) and neighboring countries have taken GALAHAD to folk-rock festivals (including the Ingelheim Euro Folk Festival, Little Woodstock, the Festival on the Altburg, Burgfolk Mülheim), various city and castle festivals, open-air and indoor concerts (including with JETHRO TULL, Paddy goes to Hollyhead, Magna Carta) as well as at matinees and vernissages, accompanied by numerous radio portraits and interviews.
Starting as an acoustic quartet, the unmistakable GALAHAD sound developed over time. This formed a varied repertoire from "concertante" to "extremely danceable" with isolated borrowings from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Folk and Rock.
Old problems are often worked through in the texts and projected into the present, for example in the play “The Return of the Piper”, which is about the (fictitious) return of the Pied Piper from Hamelin.
Critics once described Galahad's music as a "soundtrack to a live role-playing game". And indeed, one feels transported back to a time that has long since passed; The mixture of the Middle Ages, rock and Celtic mysticism does not lose its connection to the present.
This medieval rock crossover brought Galahad the award "Best Folkrock Band" at the German Rock and Pop Awards in 2007 and 2014, as well as contracts for numerous compilation CDs with Sony Music and BMG, among others, whose sampler "Celtic Circle 2 ' spent weeks at the top of the charts in Denmark, Sweden and New Zealand and was awarded 2 gold records. This made Galahad one of the "best-known artists of the genre" along with Nightwish, Clannad, Gary Moore, Mike Oldfield and Loreena McKennitt. And when the rock legend Jethro Tull found a related support act in Galahad around the super flutist Ian Anderson, the enthusiasm of the fans knew almost no bounds.
Sometimes powerful, sometimes gentle, but always expressive, Galahad's sound inspires again and again. The music magazine "Astan" puts it in a nutshell: "With their form of medieval-folk music influenced by hard rock, Galahad are pretty lonely in Germany in this uniqueness."
