News
and calendar of the most
significant gigs
(click on the pics to enlarge)
A very special birthday: 100 candles! Lagundo near Merano, 3rd January 2010
Her name is "Medi" - one hundred years old and still so young at heart! Happy Birthday!
An ancient villa, vast historical gardens, an enchanting courtyard and a large stage: these are the sceneries for the "Feast of The Holy Heart", taking place annually since more than a hundred years. Highlight: our gig in the evening.
Click here for a
slide-show
(Presenter: Dir. Don Alberto Guglielmi)
"Südtiroler Ritterspiele" Sluderno, Val Venosta, 22nd August 2009
Just one day this year, but what a day! From early morning to black night!
Here in two (or better... three), some more photos to follow!
What a wonderful and most interesting task: we had to arrange original songs, to play medieval music and to accompany a Storyteller and singers and to make music on stage at a theatrical piece.
Thanks to the Istitut Cultural Ladin, Vigo di Fassa, for their trust!
A most noble job: making music at the Gala-Diner of the "Bruderschaftswochenende" 2009 (Brotherhood of Saint Christoph)
With great success!
Bregenz, Austria, „Medieval Market“, 19th - 21st September 2008
Our delicate but powerful playing gives a cultural touch to this unlikely place....
"Südtiroler Ritterspiele" Sluderno, Val Venosta, 22nd - 24th August 2008
From the press conference at "Castle Coira" to
the main gig in the evening: 
La Zag always do their best!
„Rustico Medioevo“ in Canale di
Tenno,
Lake Garda,11th
August 2008, Concert Historical Folk:
You should have seen this enchanting place!
"Glurens Gaudens" - 3 days of Historical Reenactment in Italy's smallest town, all surrounded by a medieval wall: Glurns/Glorenza in Val Venosta, 8th- 10th August 2008:
Acoustic and delicate? Yes! Full of power with electric bass and lots of percussions? Yes! - Our music in historical style makes the whole town-square rock!
"This is the month of maying... in Vienna"
Photos by Gizzy Duststar (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gizzy/)
Medieval Day at Tyrol Castle, 2nd August 2008:
"Our Castle of Origin"! Many thanks to Paula Mair Lloyd
and to Dir. Dr.
Siegfried de Rachewiltz.
La Zag enchant the English audience with their "Historical Folk"!
Enthusiastic fans (old and new) and promoters.
Our Venues:
St. Michael's Church, Torrington, Devon
St. Brannock's Church, Braunton, Devon
Gainsborough Old Hall, Gainsborough,
Lincolnshire
Folk Club Brown Cow, Mansfield,
Nottinghamshire
Pamela Hambro Village Hall, Winterbourne
Stickland, Dorset
Morden Village Hall, Morden/Wareham, Dorset
Toller Porcorum Hall, Toller Porcorum, Dorset
The Bell Inn, Bath,
Avon
BIG THANK YOU to Richard&Splodge from
LittleWhiteLionProductions,
to the local promoters and
to the Ladies from Dorset, who with their
cooking skills proofed to us how delicious English food can be!
From „The Bath Chronicle“, Oct. 25th 2007 (please click)
soundcheck and concert....
backstage with Capitan Uncione and Chicca Tettamiao...
... real BIG fans!!!
In the Castello (=castle) Colleoni in Solza near Bergamo/Milano,
our "Historical Folk" vibrates through the night as all of a
sudden a voice can be heard out of the audience, addressed to our frontman
Franco: "Sei meglio di Jan Anderson!"(= you're better than Jan
Anderson). What a compliment (...to hell with modesty...)!
Program (clic to enlarge)...
and poster:
Our Richard&Splodge from LittleWhiteLion Productions - (yessss, Il-Mostro has mutated into lion!!) - really have worked out FLAT for La Zag and have organized a tour of two weeks with NiNE DATES in the most wonderful places of England, amongst others in two Churches in Devon! We also have the honour to play at the Gainsborough Old Hall again! For details look: http://lazag.mysite.orange.co.uk/
Great
success, and great experience, too. We literally swept the Sweeps
off its feet (as our Richard Gillitt likes to say). Many people who saw
our first gig at the Gordon Hotel Marquee followed us to our next gigs (Boley
Hill Stage and City Wall Wine Bar).
But enough with words now: lets see pictures instead! Chris Tong from Rochester made us this wonderful gift. Thanks to him!
Gig on the Boley Hill Stage
Saturday, May 5th 2007, 5pm:
Soundcheck
Ecco la primavera
H.S.L.
Arbeau
A lieta vita
Branle de Poitou
Wascha mesa
Come again
Lucky Man
Lady in Black
Branles de Bourgogne
Gaudeamus
Many thanks again to Richard&Splodge from Il-Mostro Productions and to the whole Crew, so there is Herman, Doug und Janice:
A very special thank-you to Doug Hudson, English Gentleman and guitarist and singer of the "Hot Rats"!
7 gigs in 7 enchanting venues!
Organized by our English promoter Richard Gillitt from
MonsterProductions. A huge "Thank You" to him and to
Super Secretary Splodge (& Herman)!
For more details and links see our English Homepage http://lazag.mysite.orange.co.uk/
October 6th 2006: The Keay Theatre
St. Austell, Cornwall
October 7th 2006: Minack Theatre
Cornwall
October 8th 2006: Medieval Fayre "A Bit of a Knees
Up" Beaford Arts
Beaford, Devon
October 10th 2006: "Food & Drink Festival" Rochester, Kent
October 11th 2006: Gainsborough Old Hall Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
October 12th 2006: The Circle
Worksop, Nottinghamshire
October 13th 2006: Kingsway Hall
Forest Town, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire (with support "Albert's
Kitchen"!)
Thanks from our hearts to following English friends and sponsors:
Richard Hudson, singer/guitarplayer of "Albert's Kitchen", for posters
and flyers
John Harrison for La Zag-on-tour-T-Shirts and for letting us park our
instruments in his shop
Hobgoblin - Shop in Wadebridge, Cornwall, for the sponsoring of
guitar-strings
16th July 2006: meeting with Hevia before his concert at the Celtic Music Festival of Ostiano (Cremona-Italy), where we played ourselves on 21st July (see right side). If you like, click on the picture to enlarge it.
21st July 2006: our gig
at Isola Dovarese (a beautiful old town, big square in
renaissance style), on Friday after Hevia, in front of an audience of
about 400. Photos and reviews will follow soon (click to enlarge).
Premiere of the new CD...
...in Merano-Italy.
Electric bassman Luca Agostini
As you see, we are very busy indeed and there's little time for updating the homepage. Friends and fans have sent us lots and lots of photos, so there's a big work to do. But from UK (where we had a real GREAT success!) here some pictures right now!
Acoustic-Electric-Tour Germany 2003 with
Blackmore's Night - first pictures!
It was fantastic to be on tour again with Candice, Ritchie & Co. !
And - La Zag were a big success with the audience. German fans
continue writing us emails and asking for cds, thank you. Now we are
working hard to organize own concerts in the German area (PROMOTERS
WELCOME!!!). Click here and you'll find
some nice pictures!
Some press commentaries and photos:
La Liberté
La Gruyère
On the picture below you can see our dear friends of the
Sardinian Group Cuncordia a Launeddas (Ignazio, the photographer, is the
player with the red belt!)
With Blackmore's Night on tour -
in Germany 2003
Great news: Ritchie wants us to open his concerts in Germany (like
we did in Italy 2000 and 2002)! So you can hear 30-40 minutes of La Zag on
each gig!. The dates:
04.07. Würselen (Aachen), Burg Wilhelmstein
06.07. Fulda, Schlosshof
07.07. Bielefeld, Oetkerhalle (cancelled)
08.07. Bremen, Die Glocke
10.07. Wertheim, Schloss Wertheim
11.07. Rothenburg o.d.T., Burggarten
12.07. Glauchau, Schloss Forderglauchau
15.07. Friedrichshafen, Graf Zeppelin Haus
(more infos at blackmoresnight.com
or ass-concerts.de)
We are looking forward to it - and to YOU!
Switzerland once again: La Zag
at the "Grande Couraule" around the Castle of Gruyère
6th, 7th and 8th of June 2003: a superlative historical event, an old
tradition of the 15th century coming to life! Hundreds and hundreds of
people, jugglers and musicians walk from Château-d'Oex to Bulle (region
of Fribourg), where there will be a big medieval feast in the lovely
Castle of Gruyère.
For more details click here http://www.gruyere-trad.ch
Will we meet you there?
Tour in Switzerland (Bulle/Fribourg)
At the end of October 2002 we had been invited to Bulle to play at the "Comptoir Gruièrien" (the biggest fair of the Fribourg region), where a pavilion was installed as a lovely medieval fair.
Concert at the Folk-Festival „Folkest 2002“
26th of July 2002: finally at Spilimbergo (near Venice)! Folkest is the most important folk-festival in Italy and we played on one of the final evenings. Our program - own songs and historical folk - attracted a lively response from the audience.
http://www.folkest.com
Tour 2002 with Ritchie Blackmore
July 15th and 18th (the concert on 16th was unfortunately cancelled because of rain). Well, here we are again, believe it or not, with Ritchie, his lovely Candice and Blackmore's Night touring in Italy! Some of the fans still remember us from the last tour!
Welcome music for the President of Italy
10th of July 2001: the whole town of Bolzano and Maretsch Castle in particular are in state of excitement. Most important guests are arriving. We have the honor to conclude the official act with a little concert and to play during reception in the garden. His wife Signora Franca is truly enthusiastic and Mr. President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi himself wants to take a picture with us.
Private concert for Michael Jackson...
9th March 2001: we had been called to Solda (a well known tourist place for skiing and climbing in South-Tyrol, Northern Italy) to play at dinner for some important people. For whom, we weren’t said. Can you imagine our heartbeat rising up when we learned that is was the King of Pop, Michael Jackson himself we had to play for??? (He was there on occasion of a business-meeting with promoters or so). Our music appealed to him so much, that he stopped eating and began to swing on his chair. At the end of the evening he shook hands (!) with us and said: "Nice music." Goodbye Michael!
...and for his bodyguards!
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