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.
This show band performs on an amazing number of instruments, including accordion, clarinet, tenor sax, bass guitar, upright bass, tuba, valve trombone and flugelhorn. You will need to come and see them play the musical saw as well as the cow bell. If you attend this fun concert, you will learn what a scalphorn and “bong-a-fone” are. Crowds have always been most impressed by Lorelei und Schatzi’s tight vocal harmonies, their superb yodeling, their humor and crowd interaction. Gary’s performances are a multitude of traditional and folk instruments leaves audiences in jaw-dropped awe.
Yodel Blitz has been performing crowd-pleasing music around the Hill Country for many years. They have performed at Oktoberfests and music festivals all over the U.S., from Florida to Washington state and from Nevada to Pennsylvania.
Come enjoy this fun evening of music. There is plenty of shade in Comfort Park. Music in the Park is sponsored by Gaddis United Methodist Church and the Comfort Chamber of Commerce.
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