This legendary event at the historic Loreley Amphitheatre, high above the river Rhine, was one of the first major concerts of the three friends. It was the beginning of an incredible adventure.
After that, this music took the world by storm and even today, large audiences still travel from all c...

Live concert at the KKL Lucerne, 9th of October 2023

Only a few days after Andreas' 70th birthday, Andreas Vollenweider & Friends played at the KKL in Lucerne, Switzerland. Besides the music from the new album «SlowFlow & Dancer», many of the legendary songs were performed in a new guise: touchi...

Are you ready for a «rocking» Vollenweider experience?

Another historic concert of Andreas Vollenweider & Friends at the Montreux Jazz Festival in July 1993. But the Eolian Minstrel music was a bit different, more «rocking», with vocals and lyrics, and electric guitars.

The protagonists were:

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This year's «Festival da Jazz St. Moritz» took place in the breathtaking surroundings of the Swiss mountains.

Andreas Vollenweider & Friends presented his new concert program «Music from the Hide» in a new formation.

Performed for you in the magnificent hall of the Hotel Reine Victoria:

Andre...

Music from the album Caverna Magica live with:

Andreas Vollenweider; harp, ocarina, vocals
Walter Keiser; drums
Pedro Haldemann; percussion
Joerg Peter "Büdi" Siebert; winds, keys, percussion

It is one of the rare video recordings of a live concert in those early years. This was mainly due to t...

Live at the Japanese TV NHK, Tokyo, February 1987

Andreas Vollenweider: harps
Walter Keiser: drums
Pedro Haldemann: percussion, keys
Jon Otis: percussion
Christoph Stiefel: keys
Matthias Ziegler: winds

"Before our tour in Australia in February 1987, we made a stopover in Japan, where we played ...

"Hi - all you friends of our music! Be prepared for a very intense high energy treat ;-)

It was 1995 that we played in Santiago de Chile on our tour to South America for the album KRYPTOS. A very special concert! What an energy, what a band, what an audience!

The heartbeat of the music, as alwa...

with the ZKO Zurich Chamber Orchestra, conducted by André Bellmont,
at the Fraumunster Cathedral, Zurich Switzerland, September 6, 1998
special guests: Walter Keiser, Christoph Stiefel, Matthias Ziegler

"This was my first large symphonic project. Ever since I can remember, this has been a dream...

At the AVO session, Basel, Switzerland, November 4, 2001, with Andreas Vollenweider (harps) and Abdullah Ibrahim (African Piano)

"The music of these two concerts we called the "COSMOPOLY sessions”. It was our main project from about 2000 to 2002. The term COSMOPOLY was a kind of umbrella for man...

at the AVO session, Basel, Switzerland, November 4, 2001, with Andreas Vollenweider, David Lindley, Abdullah Ibrahim, Xiaojing Wang, Walter Keiser, Andi Pupato, Valentin Kessler

"Part 2 continues with more thematic improvisations. I like to use the term because it describes how, starting from a ...

At the AVO session, Basel, Switzerland, November 4, 2001, with Andreas Vollenweider (harps) and Abdullah Ibrahim (African Piano)

"The music of these two concerts we called the "COSMOPOLY sessions”. It was our main project from about 2000 to 2002. The term COSMOPOLY was a kind of umbrella for man...

The evening was dedicated to the history of this unique music, which after its debut at the Montreux Festival in 1981, took the whole world by storm and can still inspire audiences to this day. The excellent performance of the musicians unleashed all the magic of this musical world. The protagoni...

Like in the first part, the protagonists were drummer Walter Keiser, percussionist Andi Pupato, multi-instrumentalist Daniel Kueffer, Steff la Cheffe on vocals and human beatbox, guitarist Oliver Keller, Sandro Friedrich on the ethnic wind instruments, Greg Galli keyboards, as well as the South A...

Claude Nobs, the founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival, has invited Andreas to celebrate the anniversary concert "35 years of Andreas Vollenweider & Friends" at the Festival, July 7, 2011

Watch Part 1 & 2 of this unique concert.

The setlist of the first part (duration 52:44):
• Down to the Moo...

Selected concert highlights from over 40 years of Andreas Vollenweider & Friends:
- Caverna Magica live in Zurich 1983
- Down to the Moon live in Tokyo 1987
- Live in Santiago de Chile 1995
- Wolkenstein - a symphonic mind movie 1998
- The Cosmopoly Sessions 2001 - Part 1+2
- 35 Years of Andreas ...