Very Old Stoariegler Dixielandband - 50 Jahre Jubiläumstour - Metropoldi

Metropoldi, Wien

There are not many bands that have remained true to their music and their fans for 50 years: "The Who", the "Rolling Stones" and the "Very Old Stoariegler Dixielandband".

It was March 1976 when some strange figures appeared on the Stoarieglberg in Fürstenfeld. Musicians loitering around Styria and nearby Burgenland were invited to form a Dixieland band. The igniting spark was the television program "Fatty's Salon", where Fatty George (clarinet), Oscar Klein (trumpet) and other virtuosos fulfilled viewers' wishes live. In short, Johannes Hödl founded the band, which was initially called "Stoariegler Blechmusi", but was eventually renamed "Old Stoariegler Dixielandband" in the following years due to the risk of confusion and then "Very Old Stoariegler Dixielandband" in 2016. They won the Styrian band competition (1977), played with Fatty George (1979), competed with Andy Borg in the then new TV show "Die große Chance" (1982), were live guests on Musikantenstadl and produced records, CDs and funny anecdotes.

That was all a long time ago. Now comes the "Very Old Stoariegler Dixielandband"- probably the funniest jazz band in Austria - with slapstick á la Mickey Katz and Spike Jones, with Dixieland classics by Louis Armstrong, Chris Barber, Sidney Bechet or Louis Prima and hits such as Hello Dolly, Icecream, Oh When The Saints, Struttin With Some Barbecue, Yes Sir, Honeysuckle Rose, Blue Danube, Oh Sole Mio, Beer Barrel Polka and thrill and amuse their audience as they did then and do now.