The Great Park im Prinz Willy

In the organizer's words:

Stephen Burch began making music while living on a rural farm in County Cork, Ireland. In addition to the acoustic guitar and piano, he also picked up more unconventional instruments such as brushes, pots and metal chains. Burch now lives in Germany and tours the world as The Great Park.

Images of fields, farmhouses, animals, persecution and escape - characters appear and reappear in different places - dense travel songs - the unifying motifs are those of deadly drama and possibility within The Great Park.

The Great Park has released more than 16 albums. You can hear his past life in Ireland in his songs, but you can also hear the influence of the old streets of Berlin. His stories, like his singing, are something very special, always poetic but never kitschy.

GERMAN PRESS

"An uncompromising musician who makes music with confirmed optimism. Not to make a living from it, but because he lives for it."
(Süddeutsche Zeitung)

"The fact that the folk songs never drift into kitsch also has to do with Stephen Burch's vocals, which are anything but smooth. He often comes across so shaky, even brittle, that Conor Oberst's style from Bright Eyes seems almost polished in comparison."
(Süddeutsche Zeitung)

"A singer-songwriter is always also a poet. And Burch is a very special one."
(Süddeutsche Zeitung)

"Poetry, as if taken from life."
(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

"The Great Park has great lyrical talent... In addition to his sensitive voice, this is probably the special quality of the musician that makes him stand out from the great gray mass of the singer-songwriter scene."
(Laxmag.de)

"Great songwriter cinema"
(Kieler Nachrichten)