Lagerfeuer Deluxe mit Hello Piedpiper, The Lake And The Wolf & Melchi Vepouyoum

In the organizer's words:

After a fantastic start to 2025, we are all the more looking forward to the second edition of the year. And this little fire will probably be no less legendary:

Hello Piedpiper started a few years ago as a songwriter's solo project. He toured all over Europe with Loopstation. In recent years, however, his solo existence has evolved into a full band. They combine classic folk with modern indie. Someone once said "cinematic artpop". Spherical soundscapes are mounted on pop songs as if Morricone had collaborated with Midlake. Their curiosity for grooves, electric guitar melodies and soundscapes, vocal harmonies and classic folk songs remains intact. Sounds like the good old days, you might say. And yet this is not quite true. Past and present are so closely intertwined here that it is impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins. After releasing their album "The raucous tide" in 2016, they released their EP "Oxygen" in 2020. Both on the renowned indie label Kumpels and Friends.

THE LAKE AND THE WOLF can look back on over 800 concerts in the last 10 years with his dreamy, autobiographical songs. He has shared the stage with greats such as Konstantin Wecker, Alin Coen, Wallis Bird and Mine, and has already taken to the exquisite stage of TV NOIR. Peter Urban, presenter of the ESC until 2023, described his music as "extraordinary and genuinely touching". On stage, Ulf Ronnsiek, as he is known, believes it is important to tell the stories behind his songs. These are sometimes sad, sometimes funny and sometimes extraordinary. But one thing seems certain: a concert with THE LAKE AND THE WOLF is like an autobiographical journey, at the end of which the audience has gotten to know the musician from Osnabrück very well thanks to his songs and stories.

Melchi Vepouyoum is a musician from Cameroon who has lived in Bonn for several years. He writes and sings in his mother tongue Bamoun and his youth language Camfranglais, a mixture of English, French and the local Cameroonian languages. And occasionally also in French and English. In his songs, Melchi tells of his childhood experiences in his parents' village and his youth in the big city. At the same time, he describes the current social realities of his homeland. About everyday life in the villages and towns, the situation of women and children and the all-encompassing importance of solidarity and love.