20 Jahre Lagerfeuer Deluxe Teil 2 mit JJ & The Acoustic Machine, Nico Gomez & Stereo Naked

In the organizer's words:

With 20 years of Lagerfeuer Deluxe it is of course not enough to celebrate the whole thing once. That's why we're celebrating our second anniversary with you on 23.08.

With banjo, mandolin, dobro, double bass, snare drum, guitar and blues harp, the Cologne band naturally sounds like solid country and folk at first. However, the young thoroughbred musicians create a sound that not only gets to the heart and legs, but also puts the song at the center. Jost Schiefer (vocals/guitar), Sven Jungbeck (mandolin/dobro), Markus Callejon (banjo), Johann May (double bass) and Nico Stallmann (drums) make the fact that the five guys can play properly seem secondary when they sing in several voices (band plus audience) about love, death and whiskey. The band's diverse roots, which range from punk rock to country, blues, soul, gypsy swing and Irish folk to jazz, can be sensed like a good whiskey without overpowering the overall impression.

Nico wants to tell his own story with his music and make music the way he himself feels and celebrates it. The boundaries blur between R&B, pop, soul and electronica. Fat beats drive the rhythms and make the melodies dance. Light, elegant and casual. Let yourself be carried away in the Quartier am Hafen.

Stereo Naked are the New Zealand double bass player Pierce Black and the banjo player Julia Zech when they enchant their audience with this unusual combination. They met through the Cologne bluegrass scene and have developed their very own folky "naked" sound on this basis. After many kilometers together, adventurous tours through Europe from Ireland to Lithuania, their second album "Unseen Course" was released in 2022. It has been particularly well received on British soil, being played several times on BBC radio and Deutschlandfunk also says: "With simple yet beautiful harmony vocals over calm fingerpicking, Stereo Naked conjure up a few rays of sunshine on the soul." At their live concerts, charm collides with dry humor and every song is a little hand-crafted story. What Stereo Naked achieve is their shared passion, namely to take bluegrass out of its niche and make it playful and touching for a wide audience with their songwriting. There is no calculation or filter to what they do. It's just the way they are and sound.