News August 2022

Country Music Meeting 2023
Let's meet and talk again!
After 3 years of forced break, we are planning the Country Music Meeting 2023 for next February
in Berlin's Fontane Haus.
It's about time that we all get together again with great country music and a drink! It's time to sit
and talk again, with the musicians, with the exhibitors, with old and new friends and the same, well-
known Country Music Meeting Crew!
Despite the uncertainties of what else will be cooked up by the authorities from the fall/winter of
2022, we are preparing and planning for February 3 + 4, 2023.
Tickets will go on sale on October 15, 2022.
The Kick Off Party will be held on Thursday evening at the American Western Saloon as it is every
year.
Application materials for musicians and exhibitors can be obtained at.
event@cmm-berlin.de.
For now, let's get through the summer and have fun at the many country festivals.

So stay strong, stay with us - hopefully we will see you in February 2023 in Berlin-Reinickendorf.

Frank Lange & the team of the Country Music Meeting

Hello and hello to the friends of the Country Music Meeting. The date for 2023 is set, but the exact information and registration forms are expected to be available on the website at the end of April - mid-May. So stay relaxed for now, with the requests.
Until then, have a good time.

Less is more!
Country Music Meeting only planned for Friday and Saturday

One or the other will probably already be waiting eagerly for the information about the Country Music Meeting 2022. Until today we can't say anything more about it, because nobody can foresee how long the Corona restrictions will last and if there will be another "small lockdown" for several months in winter 2021.

However, it has already been decided that the upcoming International Country Music Meeting will be planned only for Friday and Saturday. Sunday will be completely cancelled, among other things, because of too low attendance in previous years.

In addition, unfortunately quite a few information stands were dismantled well before the end of the event and we can all certainly remember the Meeting Sunday in February 2020 with the early departure of many exhibitors and artists due to the storm "Sabine". Who knows what would have happened this year? Due to the Germany-wide snowfall on the weekend of the cancelled Country Music Meeting 2021, many would have had considerable difficulties because of snow-covered and partly impassable roads and highways.

The exhibitors will therefore certainly welcome our decision. However, the daily opening hours will be slightly extended. On Friday the Country Music Meeting will be open from 2 pm to 1 am and on Saturday from 10 am to 1 am. On Sunday it will be possible to dismantle from 8 am.

As in the past years the Kick Off Party will be held on Thursday evening.

Corona has presented us all with a major challenge in 2020 and 2021 with its uncertainties and limitations. Due to the massive economic losses, which have also hit us hard, and the changes and additions in logistics and planning, we are forced to make a price adjustment in order to maintain and further guarantee the accustomed level. Also because of the drastic cost increase at suppliers and the compliance with new regulatory requirements (including the ban on disposable dishes and associated costs of the purchase of dishwashing equipment, extra dishes and planning of personnel necessary for this), unfortunately there is no way around this price adjustment.

To everyone's delight, there was a lot going on in the internet on the actually planned weekend of the International Country Music Meeting 2021. Facebook and our Meeting Team Chat were overflowing and showed that our event was missed by many people.

We already received the first requests for the 2022 registration forms, including from new national and foreign artists. At the moment, however, we are still revising all forms and it may take some time until we have brought everything up to date. As soon as all the preliminary work has been completed, all the information and forms will be available at www.countrymusicmeeting.de.

So stay strong, stay with us - hopefully we will see you in February 2022 in Berlin-Reinickendorf.

Frank Lange & the Country Music Meeting team

For the 10th International Country Music Meeting 2020
this time we produced reusable cups, which will be handed over with a 3.- € deposit.

On the one hand we have 0.5 l of beverage cups, which do not only have to be used for beer, on the other hand we have 10 years of Jack Daniel's cups, at the Jack Bars, which are also pledged with 3.- €.

The collector should enjoy this

		Country Music Meeting CD 2017 For the International Country Music Meeting 2017 we're producing a compilation CD again. We're aimig for 20 songs from the particiüating artists. The following acts already committed: Hard Travelin', The Thompson Brothers (USA), Hardcore Troubadours, Backus & Cole, Hank Rose & The Swinging Horses, Old Johnny's Crew, Stevie Simpson (UK) and Tom Reno.

		News about the unplugged stage "Cool On The Stool" For the musicians, fans, friends and also for the host Mike Strauss we can announce a wonderful and expedient improvement for next years "Cool On The Stool" stage.
After the unplugged stage "Cool On The Stool" on the 2nd floor was so successful in February 2016 and showed us that this room was really too small, we've made all possible efforts to arrange an agreement with the landlord of the Fontane Haus that we are allowed to use the "old" position of the unplugged stage in the basement of the building. Many regular visitors of the past 20 years might remember this room very well. Here you'll have a lot of space to sit down and listen.

03.02.2016

Now it’s only 2 more days until the gates of the Fontane-Haus will open for the 6th time in a row for all friends of the International Country Music Meeting Berlin. The pre-sale shows that we can expect once more a bigger amount of visitors. Also many more print and online media decided to release advance reports about this „big family meeting“. All released reports can be found on our facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/Country-Music-Meeting-Berlin-346510762100156/?fref=ts

It will be interesting to know for all participating musicians that many event promoters, who will be seeking for new acts for their future events, announced their visit of the Country Music Meeting either as guests or with their own information booth (Intern. Bühler Bluegrass Festival, Country Team Friedersdorf, Pullman City Harz, Horse Lake Ranch, Country Dance Village from the Netherlands, Countryfest Bücheloh, Truckstop Danmark, Luunja Summer Festival from Estonia, Kötzer Country Friends, Country Festival Bauska from Latvia, Pullman City Eging, Intern. Music Festival “Visagino Country” from Lithuania and many other promoters from Berlin, Hamburg, Frankonia, Saxony--Anhalt and Saxony).

Also we took care for the smokers. They will have their cosy and comfortable breaks either at the indoor smokers room of the American Western Saloon or on the court in front of the Fontane-Haus with a big BBQ stand and a “coffee bike”.

6th annual International Country Music Meeting Berlin
Feb. 5th til Feb. 7th 2016
Königshorster Str. 6 (former Wilhelmsruher Damm 142c)
13439 Berlin

		Für Ihr Wohlbefinden bieten wir Ihnen am Country Music Meeting Wochenende eine Massage Ecke (Standplatz 006, im Untergeschoss, am Western Saloon) und einen Historical Barber (Standplatz 005) an, um sich für das Wochenende fit und haarfrei zu fühlen!

20.12.2015

The plans for the 6th annual Country Music Meeting are progressing. All applications were submitted at the district authorities and the pre sale is better than at the last event. If anyone should like to order pre sale tickets please note our deadline January 29th 2016. Due to organizational reasons we can not send pre sale tickets after that date. Of course there will be enough tickets available at the weekend of the event at our ticket counters, Fontane Haus main entrance.

You can also get your tickets at the ticket counter "Theaterkasse im Märkischen Zentrum", Senftenberger Ring 1-3, 13439 Berlin, phone +49-30-4152876 www.berliner-theaterkasse.de (ticket price plus pre sale fees) or Mondays til Saturdays from 06:00 pm onwards at the American Western Saloon (closed on Sundays).

As you can see at our stage schedule many new but also well-known acts from 15 nations will participate at the 6th annual Country Music Meeting - for the first time on 4 stages.
Also a few new vendors have applied for our event. We're proud to announce that all vendors spaces for 2016 are taken.

We'd like to wish all musicians, vendors, guests and friends a peaceful and blessed Christmas and a happy and successful New Year. Thank you all so much for your loyalty and solidarity and for all the wonderful memories in the past years!
We are looking forward to seeing you all 2016 here at the Fontane Haus.

Frank M. Lange

We are excited and a little bit proud about how many new and well known acts already applied for the upcoming Country Music Meeting. But we also would like to notify, that the many announcements of definite performance days and times that we've found on the various social networks are NOT correct. Due to necessary travel arrangements we confirmed to some acts, that they WILL BE participating. But until now there are no confirmed stage schedules. These will be released on our webpage and facebook page within the next few weeks. Artists and vendors applications are still possible.

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www.awesome-myousix.de

Wow! The Program is almost packed for 2015. We have a lot of new faces on Stage.
22 new Act's, who's playing the first time, at the Country Music Meeting 2015 and for shure, a lot of well known Musicans.
Dear Musicans - If you fill out your application, please for Friday or Sunday, too.
Saturday is nearly done! Make your X for all three days! We have not space for all Musicans to play on Saturday.

After there couldn't have been a Country Music Meeting CD release for the Country Music Meeting 2011 and 2013 fans, visitors and artists are now looking forward to a 20 song compilation for the Country Music Meeting 2015. Primarily artists that will present themselves live at the Country Music Meeting 2015 will be chosen for this CD, no matter if national or international acts. The decisive factor will be the quality of the songs and the recording quality. Please first make sure, who will be the contract partner of Awesome Myousix Records. It may be your record company, who owns the rights for your song, and not you. In this case the record company has to be the contract partner. The best way is, to send your own song for the anniversary CD.

The Conctruction Aria „Fontane Haus“ will be finished in the next few month.

The guests of the American Western Saloon and the residents of the MV might already have noticed: since beginning of June 2012 the Fontane Haus is surrounded by a scaffold. The remodeling and renovation for the new front of the Fontane Haus will be finished as soon as possible. The entrance area and the spaces for the vendors will get bigger and more comfortable. Also it's planned to build a little café / restaurant at the place of the current citizens office. So the Country Music Meeting will have an extra communication area to meet musicians, event managers or fans. Also the the access for wheelchairs will get easier with a new ramp. The previous WC for disabled guests will be moved from the second floor to the basement (directly near the American Western Saloon).

For the next Country Music Meeting all forms for vendors and musicians are available for download. Also we can announce the first participating artist: You can download all application forms for artists and vendors for the Country Music Meeting 2014 from our webpage. We're proud to already announce the following participating artists: click here Schedule - we're also planning some musical surprises.

Danceshows: Can Can Girls (NL),

Historienschau:
Lausitzer Oldstyle Company (D), Western Traditionsgemeinschaft „Old America“ Berlin(D) u. a.

Line Dance Workshop with:
Susy Schalewa, Gert Wollschläger, Yvonne Redlitz, Marcel Sabiers, Natalie Redlitz, Mirjam Hänsch, Wippi, Mathias Schaal, Thomas Koch, Karla und Harold van Geenhuizen (NL), TFD Sabine, Enrico Adler

A big THANK YOU to Pullman City Harz, CountryMusicNews.de, the Four Corners Saloon in Untermeitingen an the Country Truck Stop Festival Denmark for their support an cooperation during the last years.

Sony Music Entertainment and the management of the Country Music Meeting agreed to cooperate in February 2013

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Sony Music Entertainment and the management of the Country Music Meeting agreed to cooperate in February 2013

After there couldn't have been a CD release for the Country Music Meeting 2012 fans, visitors and artists are now looking forward to a 20 song compilation for the Country Music Meeting 2013.

Sony Music is planning the release in Germany, Austria and Switzerland by the end of January 2013 with 2 improvements. First: Chances are very good that this compilation will also be released in Belgium, Luxemburg and The Netherlands (physical as well as digital). Second: The release in the german speaking area will happen in 2 hits. The first release will happen at the date of the event itself in a combined marketing concept with the Country Music Meeting management. The second release is planned for May 2013 under a special Sony Music campaign which will push the CD on the market once more. This should give the artists on this compilation the chance to present themselves to a more wide spreaded audience.

The CD is planned to contain 20 songs and should be available for the same price as the Country Music Meeting 2011 product. Primarily artists that will present themselves live at the Country Music Music Meeting 2013 will be chosen for this CD, no matter if national or international acts. The decisive factor will be the quality of the songs and the recording quality.

More: www.countrymusicnews.de

After the successful Country Music Meeting 2012, I start the work to this next mega event here at the Fontane Haus in Berlin-Reinickendorf. You will find the application forms for 2013 right now here on this webpage. If you like, fill it out and send it to me.

Regards and maybe, we meet us here at the true place of Country Music in Berlin.

Sony Music Entertainment and the management of the Country Music Meeting agreed to cooperate in February 2011

The major label will release a sampler with artists that will perform at the Country Music Meeting. Realease date: beginning of 2011. Of course the artists have to deliver high quality recordings and have to sub-licence their songs to Sony. The album realease will be promoted by Sony with several advertisements, banner-ad's and promotion campaigns. The album will be available in stores german wide and also of course at the Country Music Meeting.

For the participating artists this will be a great chance to introduce themselves to a huge audience and also earn some extra money with their songs. A Sony Music spokesman told us about the project: „For many years we are already working very successfully on the german Country Music market with 'CountryMusicNews.de'. When we heard about the Country Music Meeting we instantly knew that this event is about giving the best artists a platform to introduce their music in Germany. The concept „quality instead of quantity“ convinced us from the start and our label wants to offer its contribution to make Country Music more popular in Germany. We are looking forward to a good and long lasting cooperation with the famous event manager Frank Lange.“

More: www.countrymusicnews.de

 

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Tracklist

1. Laura Bryna - Hometown Heroes 2. Big Dig and The Sidechicks - Boobs 3. Scooter Lee - Ribbon of Highway 4. Tommy Roberts, Jr. - Rock In The Storm 5. Annika Bruhns -Look at Us Now 6. Thompson Brothers - One Drink at a Time 7. Michelle Conner & Far From Home - A Humble Man 8. Larry Schuba - Morgengedanken 9. C.C. Adams Band - I Love My Life 10. Dispatch Skulls - Red Rockin' Rita

11. The Mountaineers - 15 Tons over Broadway 12. Debbie Nunn - Say Something Good 13. Cripple Creek Band - I Forgot to Forget 14. The Lubbocks - Above and Beyond 15. The Cashbags - (Hey) What's new? 16. The Cactus Jacks - Tennessee 17. Taneytown - Dog Eat Dog 18. The Lennerockers - Boogie Woogie Queen 19. Cody McCarver - White Trash With Money 20. Country Cousins - I Wonder How

Country Roads shoot at the Country Music Meeting

As the management from the TV show "Country Roads" confirmed, they will send a team to report from the 1st Country Music Meeting at the Fontane-Haus in Berlin. The team will shoot interviews which will be shown at the next TV shows. Also live footage might be taken during the performances on the 2 live stages. This will give all international and national acts the chance to present themselves to a real wide audience. Fritz Portner, producer of "Country Roads": "It will be the first time for us to shoot interviews for our show in Germany. Until now we only showed interviews from Nashville. But the Line Up of the participating acts, international as well as national, convinced us with their quality. Also we're looking forward to the cooperation with the colleagues of CountryMusicNews.de, who are competent Country Music reporters for years."

Frank Lange, organizer of the 1st Country Music Meeting: "I am very thankful for the confirmation of 'Country Roads' to report about the Country Music Meeting. Now all participating acts will not only get the chance to present their shows, to find new fans and convince the present organizers. Together with 'Country Roads' they also can help to present the whole country scene in a more positive light on TV."

For years "Country Roads" is an important part for the country fans in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The show is broadcasted once a month on channel 3Sat.