Perfect Alpine-Caribbean liaison: "Cubaboarian Tradicional" inspire in the Kurhaus

Created: 12/30/2022, 1:00 p.m

Six established Upper Bavarian folk musicians and one Argentine form the septet "Cubaboarian Tradicional".

© Ewald J. Scheitterer

They did it again: six seasoned Upper Bavarian folk musicians and one Argentinian - the septet "Cubaboarische Tradicional" - filled the Tölzer Kurhaus (almost) to the last seat on Wednesday evening.

Bad Tölz – With their clever mixture of traditional Bavarian folk music and Latin American rhythms, the troupe from Chiemgau managed to sweep their audience away again with playing and above all singing.

The percussionist Omar Belmonte from Buenos Aires, who lives in Munich, and Hans Leiter on the accordion have filled the gap left by the band founder Hubert Meixner, who retired for private reasons, and his son Leo, who wants to break new ground in music.

The linking of Bavarian folk music with Cuban rhythms is also in the newly composed formation the unique mixture that just exudes pure joie de vivre.

Of course, the style of this extraordinary ensemble takes a lot of getting used to for purists: But salsa, merengue,

Rumba or mambo in combination with the song "Hans bleib da, du ned ja ned wias Weda werd", that has something extremely unique.

True to the motto of new bandleader Andreas Meixner: "For the next song we simply hitch the locomotive from Cuba to the Tegernsee railway and let's go - uno, dos, tres, quattro."

It all started with a trip to Cuba

It was the year 2000 when the Chiemgau "village musicians" Hubert and Andreas Meixner and Michael Mayer traveled to Cuba together, with nothing more in mind than sea, sun, beach, big cigars and cool drinks.

But they were quickly fascinated by the ubiquitous, contagious Latin American rhythm there: the Cuban virus had infected them.

A random Cuban-Boarian Hoagascht was followed by the realization that the two very different styles of music fit together wonderfully.

Further trips to the largest Caribbean island followed with intensive studies of the percussion instruments, but also the "Tres Cubano", the typical Cuban guitar with three pairs of strings, which Sepp Rottmayr has now mastered almost perfectly.

Bubbling joie de vivre

In any case, the traditional ensemble has lost nothing compared to the previous Tölz concerts of the “Cubaboarians”.

The unmistakable sound has become a trademark.

And they discovered other things they had in common, especially when Bavarian stories were Cubanized with a wink, such as the Adam and Eve tale.

Was that Spanish or Bavarian?

It doesn't matter, the joie de vivre that bubbles out of this Alpine-Caribbean liaison is sweeping - even the Tölz audience: At the latest when the ensemble began their well-known "Heit geht's a Deer Ragout" in a bossa nova rhythm, everyone was clapping and singing along.

Ziach, bombardon, claves and bongos go really well together in the music of the "Cubaboarians".

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