Gudrun Walther
vocals, fiddle, viola, diatonic accordion
Gudrun was brought up in a dynasty of fiddlers with Irish, German and French folk music and started to play traditional music on the fiddle at the age of six. A year later, she started classical training on the violin and pursued both paths for a while, before becoming a full-time trad musician.
Singing is something that Gudrun has been doing all her life. Gudrun is one of Germany’s most sought-after and well-respected trad musicians. She won numerous awards with her music and recordings (German Folk Award, German Critics Award), guested on many genre crossing albums (El Houssaine Kili, Söhne Mannheims, Le Concert Spirituel), performed as a soloist with a big orchestra (Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz) and worked as producer and co-producer in the studio.
Her original songs and tunes are an integral part of her projects and some have been covered and recorded by folk bands in the USA and UK. In 2016 she was asked to guest with world-renowned Irish band, Téada, filling in for Sligo fiddle master Oisín MacDiarmada. Even the pandemic couldn’t slow her down for long: 2020 saw her act as musical director of Germany’s first online-folk-festival Sang und Klang, in 2021 she got funding from the state for Homeground, a composition project linked to her local area, and in 2022 she recorded the album High Doh with Damian McKee (Beoga) and Aaron Jones (Old Blind Dogs) and finally went on the long-awaited duo tour with Andy Cutting (Leveret, Blowzabella).
Jürgen Treyz
guitar, 12-string guitar, harmony vocals
Juergen studied guitar at the MGI in Munich. During that time he also became engaged with traditional and medieval music. In 1993 he founded the artes recording studio which specializes in acoustic and traditional music. Being involved in radio plays, theatre plays and TV productions as a guitarist, composer and arranger, he has published a staggering amount of albums with his own music.
His productions were repeatedly awarded with numerous accolades like the German Critics Award and the Leopold (award of German music schools), and the audio book version of St. Exupéry’s Little Prince, (read by renowned German actor Ulrich Mühe, featuring music by Juergen) went gold and platinum.
As a producer and studio sound engineer he has earned himself the greatest respect in the trad music scene throughout Europe and the US.
In 2018 Juergen released a guitar book and tutorial CD, teaching flatpicking arrangements for long-lost German traditional instrumental pieces, published by the renowned guitar label Acoustic Music.
Unearthing long-forgotten German traditional music is something very important to him, and a grant enabled him in 2021 to dedicate more time to this and go through archives and study manuscripts in search of new material for albums to come.
Together with Bernd Kohlhepp, an actor and comedian, he is also well-known for composing and producing songs for children, their latest album Kokolores was released in 2022.
Gudrun Walther
vocals, fiddle, viola, diatonic accordion
Gudrun was brought up in a dynasty of fiddlers with Irish, German and French folk music and started to play traditional music on the fiddle at the age of six. A year later, she started classical training on the violin and pursued both paths for a while, before becoming a full-time trad musician.
Singing is something that Gudrun has been doing all her life. Gudrun is one of Germany’s most sought-after and well-respected trad musicians. She won numerous awards with her music and recordings (German Folk Award, German Critics Award), guested on many genre crossing albums (El Houssaine Kili, Söhne Mannheims, Le Concert Spirituel), performed as a soloist with a big orchestra (Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz) and worked as producer and co-producer in the studio.
Her original songs and tunes are an integral part of her projects and some have been covered and recorded by folk bands in the USA and UK. In 2016 she was asked to guest with world-renowned Irish band, Téada, filling in for Sligo fiddle master Oisín MacDiarmada. Even the pandemic couldn’t slow her down for long: 2020 saw her act as musical director of Germany’s first online-folk-festival Sang und Klang, in 2021 she got funding from the state for Homeground, a composition project linked to her local area, and in 2022 she recorded the album High Doh with Damian McKee (Beoga) and Aaron Jones (Old Blind Dogs) and finally went on the long-awaited duo tour with Andy Cutting (Leveret, Blowzabella).
Jürgen Treyz
guitar, 12-string guitar, harmony vocals
Juergen studied guitar at the MGI in Munich. During that time he also became engaged with traditional and medieval music. In 1993 he founded the artes recording studio which specializes in acoustic and traditional music. Being involved in radio plays, theatre plays and TV productions as a guitarist, composer and arranger, he has published a staggering amount of albums with his own music.
His productions were repeatedly awarded with numerous accolades like the German Critics Award and the Leopold (award of German music schools), and the audio book version of St. Exupéry’s Little Prince, (read by renowned German actor Ulrich Mühe, featuring music by Juergen) went gold and platinum.
As a producer and studio sound engineer he has earned himself the greatest respect in the trad music scene throughout Europe and the US.
In 2018 Juergen released a guitar book and tutorial CD, teaching flatpicking arrangements for long-lost German traditional instrumental pieces, published by the renowned guitar label Acoustic Music.
Unearthing long-forgotten German traditional music is something very important to him, and a grant enabled him in 2021 to dedicate more time to this and go through archives and study manuscripts in search of new material for albums to come.
Together with Bernd Kohlhepp, an actor and comedian, he is also well-known for composing and producing songs for children, their latest album Kokolores was released in 2022.