Get ready for a fun evening of alpine folk music and yodeling at Comfort Music in the Park. This free concert will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 12, in the Comfort Park. The show band, Yodel Blitz, will be performing their entertaining variety of music and yodeling. Bring your lawn chair and a friend and come enjoy this great entertainment. It will be like Oktoberfest in July!
The members of Yodel Blitz, Lori “Lorelei” Wisian-Brooke, Sharlene “Schatzi” Trumet, and Gary “Franz” Trumet, have performed with each other on and off for many years. The seed of Yodel Blitz was planted in the Trumet family band, The Sauerkrauts, that performed throughout the 70’and 80’s in places like the German Biergarten Show at EPCOT Center and Sangerfest Halle at Fiesta Texas. At Fiesta Texas, Lori and Sharlene added three other talented musicians and created the “Foompah Fraus,” a fivepiece, all-girl oompah band. Then, Lori and Sharlene entertained crowds at festivals throughout the U.S. as Lorelei und Schatzi. Things just clicked so very well – the voices, instrumentation, showmanship and humor – that the group immediately adopted Gary into their show, creating Yodel Blitz.
Inspiration for Yodel Blitz’s material is many and widely sourced, pulling from their father’s oompah band and other German, Slovenian and Polish music groups from around Western New York, New York State, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Particularly, inspiration is drawn from the Stratton Mountain Boys, around who’s show the EPCOT Biergarten Show was developed. Lori’s inspiration comes from the rich German music and Western music heritage of her hometown in south central Texas and performing with a number of wonderful German bands at Wurstfest.
