Kickstarter are Mechthild Mühl (congas, percussion, vocals), Claudia Sichert-Gräbner (vocals, percussion), Carola Nüßel (accordion), Hence Bauer-Härtel (vocals, cajon, percussion), Norbert Litwinschuk (guitar, vocals) and Markus Schnabel (electric piano, organ, guitar). They play their way through a few decades of hand-picked rock music. According to their own statement, pure covers are not their thing - they prefer to impose their own groove on the more or less well-known classics. The rock-bluesy to soulful-funky spectrum with influences from folk and Americana ranges from the trip-hoppy "Massive Attack" to the snotty post-punk of the "White Stripes", from Otis Redding soul ballads with goosebump generators to classic heaters from "Creedence Clearwater", the "Doobie Brothers" or the "Rolling Stones".Listeners can expect plenty of harmony vocals, proper rocking, the occasional heart-wrenching tearjerker, overdriven solos and a desire to improvise.

Oldies, danceable classics and evergreens! That's "Gery's Flotter Dreier" - just the right music trio for wonderful hits and pop music from the 50s to the 80s. With electric drums, guitar, piano/bass and vocals, Gery Gerspitzer, Bernd Schricker and Stefan Mannagottera entertain their audience together. With titles by Billy Joel, Elvis, Rocco Granada, Eagles and many more, they provide musical accompaniment or animation. A trio that fits in everywhere: oldies, danceable classics and evergreens! This is "Gerys Flotter Dreier" - just the right music trio for wonderful pop and pop music from the 50s to the 80s. With electric drums, guitar, piano/bass and vocals, Gery Gerspitzer, Bernd Schricker and Stefan Mannagottera entertain their audience together. With titles by Billy Joel, Elvis, Rocco Granada, Eagles and many more, they provide musical accompaniment or animation. A trio that fits in everywhere.

Under the motto "Your good mood music - we are happy to play for you", the Ziegelhütten Musikanten Rehau under the direction of Norbert Eder and singer Sigrid Schneider want to delight their audience.

A varied program is offered to the listeners - with current Bohemian brass music, polkas, waltz melodies, popular hits and big band medleys. In addition, depending on the event, alpine hits with accordion sound.

Michael Falk (piano), Ralf Wunschelmeier (bass) and Harry Tröger (drums), who have already performed several times together with singer Cornelia Löhr as the Hof ArtHouse Jazz Band at the City of Hof's film awards ceremony as part of the Hof International Film Festival, will be playing a promenade concert for the first time with a "light line-up". The three thoroughbred musicians will be performing jazz standards as well as pieces by Waldschrat and the Frankoriginies.

Once the accordionists even had bad weather at the "Stein": it must have been in July 2010 when a cold front passed over Germany and it was 13 degrees and raining at the promenade concert. This was all the more bitter for the Hof accordionists as they had guests who were not at all used to the temperatures in Hof: A friendly orchestra from La Reunion in the Indian Ocean was visiting and the young musicians were shivering at the Theresienstein in Hof.

But otherwise, when the accordion orchestra plays at the "Stein", the weather is fine - and has been for many years! On Sunday, July 14, the 20 or so accordionists led by conductor Torsten Petzold will be playing in the music pavilion again this time. The ensemble will have a colorful musical bouquet on their music stands - with waltzes and marches, pop medleys and classical arrangements. The ensemble from the Hofer Symphoniker music school, which has performed in many parts of the world, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this autumn - and the home performance at the "Stein" is a fixed part of the annual program.

The brass band "Fränkisch Blech" with 17 musicians from Hof and the surrounding area is the flagship of the Fichtelgebirgsverein Hof/S. Under the direction of Manfred Völk, the musicians play Franconian, Bavarian and Bohemian brass music. As the Hof brass band since 2002, the musicians are happy to play for the Hof audience.