The young bands "The Toddlers" and "Merged" rock the Isar summer

Rompers and strong female voices: the up-and-coming bands “The Toddlers” and “Merged” took to the stage in the council chambers.

A successful Isar summer concert.

Geretsried

- The “Isarsommer” concert series launched by the city after the cultural autumn was canceled is very popular.

Even at the performances of the bands Merged and The Toddlers, all 70 approved seats were reserved in advance.

Those who came too late had to hope for short-term cancellations from visitors.

It all started with The Toddlers, who formed in 2013 at Enno Strauss's Geretsrieder Groove Academy.

Leonie Hahn, Armin Kolomyczuk, Simon Hammerschmied, Yannick Xylander, Enno Lug and Jannis Weidner no longer do justice to the German translation of the band's name - “small children”.

Nevertheless, the group appeared in uniform black overalls that were vaguely reminiscent of rompers.

In addition to this optical impression, the expressive voice of the singer Leonie Hahn was first noticed.

With the premiere of the song “Little Dreamer”, which she wrote herself, she reminiscent of the Scottish songwriter Amy Macdonald or the far too early deceased Cranberries frontwoman Dolores O'Riordan.

In between guitarist Simon Hammerschmied performed a cover version of the hip-hop classic "Gangsta's Paradise".

With amusing interpretations of the songs by musicians as diverse as Alligatoah, Wheatus and the doctors, the toddlers said goodbye after an hour and left the stage to another up-and-coming band.

Duplicity of events: Merged also relied on the charisma of a dominant female voice.

19-year-old Laura Dessel even dared an acoustic intro to the AC / DC hard rock evergreen “Highway to Hell”, before her band mates Oliver Fichtner, Kosta Kapalidis, Armin Kolomyczuk, Marcus Reiners and Eduard Schweighardt turned it up a notch.

They also gave the Beatles hit "Help" a more rocky look.

Like Leonie Hahn before, Laura Dessel also gave her musical comrades room to develop.

Kosta Kapalidis was allowed to try post-production of the Britpop songs by Muse and the Arctic Monkeys.

In the encore, loudly requested by the audience, Dessel went one better with the Oasis hymn “Don't Look Back in Anger”.

With this refrain she hit the nail on the head.

Because certainly none of the visitors will look back angrily at this varied Isar summer evening.

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