NEW HAMBURG: Songs For Joy - Die Record-Release-Gala

In the organizer's words:

Concept, music and staging: Jacques Palminger and Carsten "Erobique" Meyer

At the beginning of last year, a call went out: "Do you love music? Do you like writing? Send us your lyrics! Jacques Palminger and Carsten "Erobique" Meyer will turn them into music. You put down on paper the text that has always fitted the soundtrack of your life, even if the soundtrack is still missing, and send it to our team. The text is immediately set to music and, with the support of musicians from Veddel, recorded in the Immanuelkirche, which has been converted into an open recording studio. You can come along, be there and sing along etc. At the end of the project, there will be a big show and the production of a record."

The SchauSpielHaus received more than 200 submissions. Peta Devlin, Chris Dietermann, Mario Hänni, Carsten "Erobique" Meyer and Jacques Palminger spent two intensive weeks in May working on the songs, making a selection and developing initial sketches. After just three days, more musicians and singers joined them, either by chance from the island, attracted by word of mouth or invited specifically. The studio became a place of warm and bizarre, surprising and familiar encounters. "Songs for Joy" reached a temporary climax in May 2024 with the furious gala at the Schauspielhaus: more than 50 people on stage and 1,000 in the auditorium celebrated a project that was enough to make you cry, although you couldn't be sure whether you were crying with joy, emotion or laughter.

Exactly one year later, the double album "Songs for Joy" is finished. A good reason for us to get everyone together and bring the little miracle from the Veddel back on stage. It's getting glittery, it's getting warm, it's getting loud. It's time for "Songs for Joy"!

With: Angelika Richter, Banu Şengül, Bettina Stucky, Carsten Schnathorst, Christoph Jöde, Delio Malaer, Feige Flittchen (Lilly Kur, Ella Kur, Pia Kehl), Frank Eichhorn, Hank Schmidt in der Beek, Jan Thümer, Jan-Peter Kampwirth, Julia Wieninger, Katherina Sattler, Kinderchor der Schule auf der Veddel, Lilly von Allesch, Linnéa Racine, Michael Weber, Morín Alejandra González Mena, Philipp Stadtmüller, Yvon Janssen, Albrecht Schrader (piano), André Welt (harmonica), Anne-Christine Heinrich (flute) , Hagen Van de Viven (guitar), Isidora Caroca (accordion), Juliane Gaebler (saxophone) , Michael Leuschner (trumpet), Ray Subahri (jew's harp), Yasser Al Juhne (oud), Yorck Dippe (saxophone) and others

Concept, music and production: Carsten "Erobique" Meyer and Jacques Palminger
Songs For Joy Band: Carsten "Erobique" Meyer, Jacques Palminger, Chris Dietermann, Mario Hänni and Peta Devlin
Recording director: Peta Devlin
Stage: Malte Knipping
Lighting: Rebekka Dahnke
Dramaturgy: Ludwig Haugk

Further information: NEW HAMBURG: Songs For Joy - The Record Release Gala | Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg