It felt like half of Poing was on the way to the Long Night of Music on Saturday evening.
After the forced Corona break, many wanted to go out to all kinds of live music and disco.
Poing - The youth center for the Long Night of Music did not expect such a flood of visitors: “We thought there would be around 30 to 40 spectators again, as usual.
Instead, we distributed 300 entry wristbands, ”says director Kathi Schwab.
At 10 p.m. the beer and apple spritzer were completely sold out.
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The band Gainesville played in the opera workshops.
© Johannes Dziemballa
This happened to several venues: Even at the Oldies Bar, when the German pop / rock band Phonotom heard the first sound in the beer garden, the tables were already completely filled.
Many spectators stopped on the sidewalk, took their children on their shoulders and listened over the hedge.
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Karaoke night in the Orth garage.
© Johannes Dziemballa
In the workshops of the Bavarian State Opera, the band Gainesville was amazed by the 50 to 80 listeners: "Thank you so much that so many people have come so far," said singer Detlef Wolff on stage.
He was pleased that they would have got one of the most beautiful places of the Long Night amid the crane, paint splatters on the floor and paintings on the walls: “As beautiful as the stage is, we were also uncertain whether anyone would even find the way out here (on Gruber Strasse, near the BayWa hardware store, the editor.) “Especially because this year, due to Corona, there was no shuttle bus to take citizens to the respective concerts as a precaution.
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The duo Ines mit Schuh from Poing played in the library.
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It was brightly lit at the OMV petrol station.
Not equipped with spotlights, but with a laser show and LED light chains, the rock band "Brockhouse" cast a spell over various viewers.
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Alpine folk music with the Poinger Dreigesang and the Kirchheimer zither music in the community center.
© Johannes Dziemballa
Regardless of whether ARGE construction containers, where a beer garden was set up with free beer and free food and where the Poing band played, no matter whether old and new church or the community library: all musicians and bands at the 25 venues had plenty of audience.
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Star guest at the mobile disco: The real DJ Ötzi, DJ experience for 5300 years.
© Johannes Dziemballa
Dozens of people gathered at Bergfeldsee from 6 p.m. to listen to DJ RetroRösl's mobile disco.
People danced from the lake to the parking lot.
The line in front of the kiosk alone remained around 20 meters long.
Complaints?
Nothing.
Because even when standing in line, it was easy to sing along, sway along and celebrate.
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The music band Poing with conductor Angela Ebmeyer played in the ARGE beer garden.
© Johannes Dziemballa
When the mobile disco (a solar / electric tuk-tuk) finally moved to the market square, there was no stopping the people of Poing: It felt like half the community (in which a total of around 16,700 people live) romped around there until midnight To dance the Macarena together or to sing along loudly to Geier Swoop's “Pure lust for life”.
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The mobile disco: DJ RetroRösl with his tuk-tuk.
© Johannes Dziemballa
Mayor Thomas Stark, who was out the whole evening, remarked with satisfaction at the sight of the party people on the market square: “That's exactly what Poing needed again.” Due to the pandemic, the citizens would have been long enough for community, partying, fun and freedom longed for.
The Long Night of Music was just the right thing to get together again.
“Poing is not a dormitory city.
Poing is alive! ”, Said Stark into the microphone at midnight on the market square and thanked everyone involved and guests, regardless of where they were part of the Long Night of Music in Poing.
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