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From May 4 to July 19, 2025, KlangART Vision celebrates contemporary music in Saxony-Anhalt at historic venues throughout the state. "Without music, life would be a mistake" is the motto of the 6th edition.
If you'd like to purchase your ticket through an established ticket service, to print it yourself, or pay by credit card, or...
Here you go:
I unfortunately have some bad news to share with you. About 3 weeks ago we received the news that Z3 cannot come to Zappanale 2025. The reason for this is a scheduling conflict with frontman Tim Palmieri. This had not yet happened at the time of our negotiations. We have been assured that unfortunately nothing can be done about this, Tim would lose his main job if he came to Zappanale.
This creates a few problems for the organization of Zappanale and also for me and you who donated. I have therefore decided to have the amount donated refunded to each of you via the Gofundme platform. Unfortunately, for reasons I cannot understand, this is not possible. Once the money has been paid out, a refund is not possible. If any of you find out otherwise on Gofundme, please let me know, that would be the cleanest and easiest solution to the problem.
In cooperation with the Arf Society, I was able to fill the gap in the program quickly and safely. I was able to hire Chato with his new band 'Zapped' and the band 'Dangerous Kitchen' as replacements. I could close the financial gap that this would create in the Zappanale budget with part of your donations. I can understand if some or even many of you don't want that, because the reason for your donation was the band Z3.
Almost everyone I have been able to speak to personally so far has allowed me to use the donated money. However, since I only know a small proportion of the donors personally, I am turning to you this way. Of course, I will refund everyone who wants it the full amount of their donation, minus 2.9%, which Gofundme has already withheld in advance. Please consider whether you want to make a small contribution to financing the bands.
You can contact me via the platform and we will find a way to pay out, in cash at the Zappanale, or by bank transfer beforehand. As you can imagine, the whole thing is a really big bummer for me!!!! Take a moment to think about it and make a suggestion as to how you can best manage it. I need around €3000 for the bands, part of which has already been promised to me. I know that sounds a bit vague but I don't know how I can do it differently.
Call me,
Georg 01775667849.
Despite everything, ARF, ARF, ARF.
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ZappaTime at rockradio.de
Come and listen! Next dates
04.05.25 ZappaTime #38: Ali N. Askin / Zappanale #34 preview
Concert replays:
11.04.25 Phyt
25.04.25 Big Band GveriLLaz
09.05.25 Fused Trio
23.05.25 Frank Out! feat. Napoleon Murphy Brock
06.06.25 Goodbye Session
Dear Zappanale fans,
the Zappanale presents on October 15, 2025 a concert with
Banned from Utopia
at Logo (Logo Concerts GmbH) in Hamburg.
The Zappanale will receive 100 tickets at a significantly reduced purchase price via the following link:
First come, first served!
Banned from Utopia
Robert Martin - Frank Zappa, 1981 - 1988
Robbie Mangano - Grandmothers of Invention
Ray White - Frank Zappa, 1976 - 1984
Chad Wackerman - Frank Zappa, 1981 - 1988
Jamie Kime - Zappa Plays Zappa, 2007 - 2012
Scott Thunes - Frank Zappa, 1981 - 1988
"After the very first ZappaUnion Festival was such a success in Norway
in 2012, my friends Erlend and Bjorn suggested that I come back in 2013
with a full band of Zappa alumni. I agreed that it was a great idea
and reformed Banned From Utopia, a unique combination of musicians
who first began performing in 1994 in a series of concerts to
commemorate Frank's life and music. The band performed in various configurations over the next few years, but hasn't been seen for
many years until now. WE'RE BACK, and very excited to play this
great music for the fans that love it as much as we do." -- Robert Martin
This is a full-on Frank Zappa extravaganza performed by those who
have shared the stage with Frank through many years of touring and recording. Expect excitement, death-defying enlightenment, and incredible music
composed by the legend himself. Banned From Utopia is a show you
don´t want to miss in your lifetime.
Get your ticket now!
Robert Martin (the healthiest guy on earth, one might think) had to undergo emergency surgery. Everything went well and he is already recovering from the operation. We wish him all the best and a quick and full recovery.
However, the operation has left quite a hole in his finances, so Dot Stein has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help Robert over the hill.
If you want, you can also donate directly to his PayPal account MMM/LGNAAA via the QR code below.
Valentina Scheldhofen Ciardelli, who will be performing at the upcoming Zappanale with her new trio 'Ciardelli-Drago-Strano', has been fighting for years with airlines that are making travelling with musical instruments increasingly difficult. At the moment, the focus is on raising awareness of the problem. She will soon be creating a petition with the musicians' union that everybody can support then. You can keep up to date on the topic on Valentina's social media. Here is her appeal with the article from 'The Telegraph':
Dear all,
I’m happy to inform you that 'The Telegraph' recently reached out to interview me regarding the ongoing issue of 'traveling with musical instruments'. We discussed the need to simplify procedures and adjust baggage allowances for travelers with instruments, both small and large.
Following my numerous efforts with the Musicians' Union, we continue to advocate for rights and changes with airlines and airports to ensure smoother, more appropriate travel conditions for our profession. Our goal is to ensure musicians face fewer obstacles and unnecessary costs when transporting their instruments.
I hope you will all support this important cause. Attached, you’ll find the article that 'The Telegraph' published on the subject.
Enjoy the read and wishing you all a happy New Year!
Best regards,
Valentina
The camping ticket can be booked from 2-6 days.
The campsite is open from Tuesday 15.07.2025 - Monday 21.07.2025
The use of the toilets and showers, as well as the spa tax are included.
The camping ticket can be booked from 2-6 days.
The campsite is open from Tuesday 15.07.2025 - Monday 21.07.2025
The use of the toilets and showers, as well as the spa tax are included.
The campsite is open from Tuesday 15.07.2025 - Monday 21.07.2025
The use of toilets and showers, electricity and the tourist tax are included.
For our day guests (also pupils & students and social) we offer the possibility for 1 overnight stay in the vehicle on the day parking lot without additional structures (awning or similar)
The ticket for the overnight stay on the day parking lot is only available at the day or evening box office!
Some fan crowd and this music keeps tight.
Actually, the faeces are the contrast medium solution in our vigorous body and Frank Zappa is my positive contrast medium that I have incorporated into my body. Frank Zappa has his very own pedestal now that being dead is so easy to be. Will he see him again, the visitor to this town by the sea? He should smoke and wear a pen; both are granted. Because every arrival presumes a confusion, there are many who carry another with them. The fan and his idol depict the idol and himself, inside and further out in this town by the sea.
Everyone knows his city. It was Baltimore where Frank Vincent Zappa was born and it is Hollywood that Zappa died within perceptible proximity. Was it really like that? Didn't I just see Frank Zappa here on the horizon in a rare (but what can be rare here) in the middle of a mirage? Hi, Frank..."It can't happen here!" But this city hasn't pretended anything, many have erected a bronze bust of Frank Zappa here. It is very real and not a mirage when a human approaches from the far-off part of a landscape, as many, far too many have done that day.
Americans, English, Czechs, Hungarians, Brandenburgers, Saxons, just Zappa fans. It's possible here in the east that fans keep that particular Z-cult alive with all its outsider airs, but there never would have been a band Mothers Of Invention in a small town eastbound. Here, in addition to the conviction, it was the reality that cynically stood by, confiscated ZAPPA's crazy records and simply took the guy who was listening to this music out of life. Because every authority has understood their meaning very well, not only because Zappa's attitude can be heard clearly. This meteorologist's son was a terrified citizen and kept his head up. Even then, when Zappa was finally able to rise from the underrated US underground to the outstanding moment of pop culture with hits like "Bobby Brown" and "Valley Girl".
Yes, the renewed Ur - Vater - Mirage of the counter-culture stands here in the far north in the heat and in the sand. Frank Zappa has his very own pedestal - now that everything is so easy, everyone in this place revolves ABSOLUTELY FREE around this man from hell. There are freaks surrounding his current state with beer and banners. The plush parrot above his marble skull snarls arf-arf-arf when siblings Bob and Candy Zappa pull the sheet off the bust. Some have tears in their eyes, others touch their taches as if to assure themselves that they are present. But since local politicians don't fit into any Zappa mirage and don't even make a local absurdity with their parade of congratulations and memorial stones, they, like the vegetables at their feet, make their way into a glorious perspiration. Everything goes to the veterans of the band Mothers Of Invention "Thank you, Frank, for being different". Here, too, Frank Zappa remains a critical person, who wasn't always easy and sometimes a little weird! Says who?
An American on site translated: "A visionary human being!" and what next? Many years ago, a young K. heard the first Zappa record in this place. In 1990 this Mr. K. founded the Zappanale, and the Arf-Society became the registered association for Zappatists, soon all over the world. This gigantic growth really tempted to erect a monument to the idol, yes, a monument as absurd as a mirage....because a Zappa monument appears on a blue-curved surface here in the middle of the town by the sea... But for every Zappa fan, the senseless is just another air of grace on this stage of in-significance.
So the chronicle says: culture committee-city council-citizen discussion-monument dispute! Yes, give us a bust for the folk poet E.W.! But don't we finally want something unreal absurd? Yes, of course. In the end, the elevated policy unanimously agrees. Very Zappa established.
... yes, let the Czech Vaclav C. model a little Frank Zappa for us, in final artistic quality, so this fellow artist and fan freak makes it real.
Everyone coming from the train station has to pass him. The dead live, but it's good to be dead once in a while. But Zappa laughs from his all-too-bar-squatting pedestal, and he's by no means embarrassed when he's kissed early in the morning. In the spa gardens of the freshly recovered worker from the old days and always with a cathedral on his back, in a town by the sea. Alas, in its affection East, like West, like North and South, was overripe for the Zappa Frank asteroid, which in meaningful association made unique records, the meaning of which is understood because every kind of hidden subtle mockery is clearly translatable. Zappa's philosophy still orbits our planet in its own insulting way. But also Zappa comes from reality, and the power of all his works comes from the protection of his extended family. Even now, it is as imperturbable as a whale soaring into the sky.
Will I dream? This year at the racecourse of a town by the sea at Zappanale number 13?
There will be e-guitar solos again, which don't have a pre-existing, but an open form, and all the bands with mirage like names like the Lewinskys, Landplage, Beistelltische, Dwarf Nebula, Cosmic Debris, Ozric Tentacles...
Without this attitude, the special cult surrounding rock star Frank Zappa would never be so new and would never be proof that a freak was present here at the Zappanale in a town by the sea. In the summer sun festival, directly behind a mirage. Because Frank Zappa used to hire every musician, then completely revamp them and throw them out again - Arf.Arf.Arf - many personalities exist in his Zappa-cunning name today.
There's Ike Willis and Don Preston, Roy Estrada, Mike Keneally, Bob and Thana Harris, Napoleon Murhy Brock, and the Indian Jimmy Carl Black. Everyone celebrates the songs properly and without hesitation in the confusion on stage.
I see someone dancing to the rhythm here in the background, singing along to every word to the letter, even though he can't sing or dance.
This rock 'n' roll is common to all. Everyone plays the Zappa song. He now stays everywhere all over the little town by the sea.
"Are there pigeons in Bad Doberan?" asks someone from the Zappa clan in the state-approved spa, yes there is...some fan crowd and the spirit of Frank Zappa, sent out over all of us. But the rest of the world seeps indignantly into shared toilets, from the walls of which Zappa can look down on every excitement.
"Stick it out."
Frank Zappa-1940-1993
A. Cant 2002
Zappa "nale" is everywhere a little in Bad Doberan
Legals §
When arriving at the terrain, the question arises: Sun- or Greencamp? Each has its advantages. The Sun-Camp is brighter during the day, the GreenCamp darker at night. The on-site guides will certainly help you decide.
The campsite is equipped with sanitary facilities from Wednesday to Monday. Please check the current announcements.
You prefer a real bed? Bad Doberan and the surrounding region offer accommodation in all price categories. The Zappanale takes place in a summer vacation region, so you have a clear advantage as an early booker. Please ask at the tourist information.
Whether you are coming from Hamburg, Berlin or Bratislava, heading for Rostock is the right decision. If Bad Doberan is indicated as the next stop, this is the time to prepare for the exit. When you arrive in Rostock, get on the next regional express in the direction of Wismar, which you then leave in: Bad Doberan.
From there you have several options: Traditionally with the Molli train, it stops directly at the festival area, or you can get a ride from one of the easily recognizable Zappanale fans. You can meet them at the Zappa monument or at the nearby supermarket - both are five minutes away from the train station.
Your navigation device will surely bring you to the racecourse (54.124677,11.869512) in Bad Doberan. If you don't have a navigation system: Exit Bad Doberan, direction Bad Doberan/Heiligendamm.
In Bad Doberan - at the first major crossing with traffic lights - turn right in the direction of Kühlungsborn/Heiligendamm and pass the Frank Zappa monument (about 100m after the crossing).
The racecourse is halfway between Bad Doberan and Heiligendamm, first you have to pass the festival area. If you are not the first, this is easy to recognize. In the following traffic circle you take the last exit and can slowly switch to live music mode.
If you would like to make yourself comfortable on a back seat, look for a ride share. Either via the community or e.g. here: drive2day.de.
We are very happy about the establishment of our special stop, which is set up by the Mecklenburgische Bäderbahn Molli GmbH especially for the Zappanale.
We would like to thank them very much for this!
