Cara

Celtic folk
The multinational Celtic folk band, which has won two Irish Music Awards and numerous other prizes, is celebrating its 20th anniversary on stage.

In 2003, four close folk musicians came together to form CARA (Gaelic: friend) and to this day, friendship plays a central role in the band alongside their shared love of the traditional music of Ireland and Scotland.

In the 20 years of their existence, CARA have gained an excellent reputation, often highlighted for their innovative arrangements, original compositions and songwriting, as well as their virtuoso performances and charismatic stage presence. They create their own sound, in which the voices of the two singers Gudrun Walther and Kim Edgar take center stage. The vocal spectrum ranges from dreamy ballads and archaic Gaelic mouth music to their own songs with current socio-political relevance, with the two lead singers Gudrun Walther and Kim Edgar always complementing each other with somnambulistic confidence.

The songs alternate with fast-paced instrumental pieces that thrive on the virtuoso interplay of fiddle and uilleann pipes. The Irish bagpipes, which were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017, are played by Cara newcomer Simon Pfisterer, who studied this unusual instrument at the University of Limerick.

What also makes CARA special is the interaction between guitar and piano and the band's unusual, rhythmically and harmonically rich arrangements. They bear the signature of Jürgen Treyz, guitarist, producer and musical mastermind of the band.


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