Elisabeth Lohninger Quartet - Tour in Czech Republic, Fall 09

with:
Walter Fischbacher, keys
Petr Dvorsky, bass
Martin Novak, drums

13 shows in a row in September of 09

Paris undercover

First stop: VITKOV

Festival in VSETIN

Bordertown of CESKY TESIN: Jazz Club Strelnice

Border into Poland, right behind the club, in the middle of the river

psychedelic hotel

Yoga for sanity

cozy breakfast hall with a small mural on the wall

BRNO: Stara Pekarna

Jiri Sveda, my booker, with Petr Dvorsky

"Are we there yet?"

The pope was on tour, too! He opened up for me in Brno and Mlada Boleslav

MLADA BOLESLAV

view from the hotel

Skoda Museum

USTI NAD LABEM

Walter practicing on a real piano for a change

met up with Dagmar Spain, who is from Usti

Jazzfest TRUTNOV

We played in a former church, beautiful room

SUMPERK

sound check

small little poster, no pressure...

PARDUBICE - tiny club for jazz lovers

SVITAVY - huge contrast to the night before: large hall, huge stage

getting some sun

This is where we stayed! Nobody else in the building, except, possibly, some vampires in the basement

working HARD

Petr and Martin backstage

Petr loses his marbles on the van

thanks to the GPS we saw some lovely countryside

CERNOSICE

sound check

DOMAZLICE - a medieval tourist town close to Germany

refined lighting design

Ate in a medieval restaurant where people are paid to be rude to you in czech. So, you know, that kinda pissed me off.

Martin's mom supplied bagloads of apples from her garden. Thank you, Martin's mom!

detour to Little America, a former coal mine I think. Beautiful spot

SOKOLOV Jazz Fest

interesting poster

winter garden in the castle

Flowers at the end of an intense 2 weeks. Thank you to all involved! We'll do it again soon!