Venues for the #20for20 project have been finalised
Festival brings music to the rural region
With the #20for20 project, Thuringia's largest classical music festival wants to say thank you for 20 exciting and wonderful years of festival culture and is giving away 20 concerts in the rural regions of Thuringia. The 20 venues have now been finalised. "The idea arose from the experience of hearing time and again that culture hardly takes place in rural areas anymore, that many residents feel socially and culturally left behind and that the journey to the cities is often too arduous for them," says Bachwochen director Christoph Drescher. With guitarist Anne Haasch, accordionist Goran Stevanovich and percussionist Philipp Lamprecht, we have found three artists who are looking forward to travelling to unknown stages and supporting the idea of concerts in the countryside with their musical talents and experience.
The #20for20 project is part of the "tuned - Network for Contemporary Classical Music" programme. Since last year, the German Federal Cultural Foundation has been funding six festivals that are trialling new concert formats and working methods. Social sustainability is also an important topic here: how can a festival develop social relevance and work with local people on an equal footing instead of just landing once a year as a UFO for a few weeks and then disappearing again? This is what #20for20 exemplifies.
The events of the #20for20 project are free of charge in order to reach as many people as possible with the concerts.