st. katharina open air | Yasi Hofer + Support: Karin Rabhansl Band

In the organizer's words:

Yasi Hofer, a rock guitar virtuoso who was discovered by guitar god Steve Vai at the age of just 12, has already released her 4th studio album entitled "Between the Lines"
The renowned engineer "Mike Plotnikoff" in Los Angeles worked on some of the songs. Thanks to the many rich experiences and enormous further development, she has succeeded in making this new album her most progressive and earthy musical work.
She is now one of the most sought-after and busy guitarists on the German music scene and is also a respected musician internationally. In addition to her Yasi Hofer trio, she currently has another band project in Los Angeles under the direction of Holly Knight, one of the world's most successful songwriters.

She will be touring Europe with the new record in 2024 and 2025. The Yasi Hofer - Trio offers a two-hour program of virtuoso rock instrumental music and bluesy-jazzy vocal sounds with Yasi's special alto voice, always dominated by her unique guitar sound. This stylistic fusion, heavy rock paired with contemporary dream pop is bursting with strong melodies and hypnotic grooves. She has thus managed the balancing act between performing exciting, refined playing technique and composing exceptionally tasteful music.

Support Karin Rabhansl Band: In times when rock music has to be ironic and discursive, Karin Rabhansl goes old school with a light heart. Her design sounds loud, free and darkly colorful. The musical toughness suits her well: melodies with majority appeal meet dusty desert rock, grumpy big city blues meet checked-out organ and guitar madness as well as the odd scattered 80s quote. The Lower Bavarian's lyrics tend to be dark (despite all the humor) and are often little milieu studies. They are about winners and losers, monsters and superheroes, about loneliness, farewells, betrayed dreams, death and the devil, about the ride of life and about the fact that the world is not a good or bad place per se, but often just a tricky place - strange and beautiful and yet full of trapdoors and shallows