Jazzfest Bonn and summer break
We had a wonderful time playing the closing concert at Jazzfest Bonn!
What an amazing audience, thanks for the fantastic night at the Telekom Forum! WDR will air a broadcast of our concert on TV, on June 28th at 1:25 AM – prime time, baby!;)
Now we are fully committing to our new album and make use of the summer break for writing, tinkering, rehearsing and conspiring.
We’ll keep you up to date!
Enjoy some sun,?
Monika and band
MRBB @ Lange Nacht der Musik Munich
It was a beautiful long night in Munich!
You can listen to some impressions (and also two pieces we’ve played) here: BR Sweet Spot did some live reporting!
See you soon, our next stop is at Jazzfest Bonn on May 31, come around!
Southern Germany Mini Tour
We had a blast on our mini tour through southern Germany:
Theaterhaus Jazztage Stuttgart and Veitsbronn, thanks for coming!
See you soon, we’re now tinkering with some new song material that we’re already looking forward to presenting to you! 
MRBB @ 45. Freiberger Jazztage
Freiberg, thanks for having us!:) 
We were allowed to play in the worlds oldest (!) municipal theatre! You gave us such a warm hearted welcome, we didn’t want to leave again!
See you soon in Stuttgart or in Franconian Veitsbronn,
Monika and band 
MRBB @ Philharmonie Cologne
Cologne, it was our pleasure! Thanks for a spectacular night.
We also had the great honor to meet author Frank Schätzing – naturally, being a team of 20, we didn’t have much trouble “convincing” him to do a selfie with us!:)
Frank Lorentz wrote a wonderful piece for the Welt am Sonntag – here are some of his memories:
“The best thing though, to me, was the music. Played by the Monika Roscher Bigband.”
“[…] she conducted her band and played and sang like I haven’t seen or heard before.”
“Pure magic!” 
Bigband Rehearsal Days
We had some bigband rehearsal days, it was super fun. Getting psyched for Cologne on wednesday!
Springtime awakening 2019 ☀︎
We can’t wait to get on the road again for our 2019 concerts:
27.03.2019 Cologne, Philharmonie, lit.COLOGNE (literature festival)
13.04.2019 Freiberg, Freiberger Jazztage
19.04.2019 Stuttgart, Theaterhaus Jazztage
20.04.2019 Veitsbronn, Halle 96
04.05.2019 Munich, Lange Nacht der Musik, Carl-Orff-Saal
31.05.2019 Bonn, Jazzfest (closing concert)
30.11.2019 Nuremberg, Hubertussaal
We’re looking forward to seeing you! Best,
Monika Roscher Bigband
First tour dates 2019!
Zappanale 2018 – Videos!
We played at the wonderful Zappanale this summer – here are some live videos: the first one is our song “Wüste”, where our soprano saxophone player Jan Kiesewetter rips it up!
The second video is “Illusion”, with our key master of enchantment, Josef Reßle, who is introducing the song with a magical solo, and Burning Man Michael Schreiber on tenor saxophone who is setting the stage ablaze fueled by some fired up drumming by Silvan Strauß!:)
The third one is “Terror Tango”. It’s one of my favorites and is about the unnerving constant sonic exposure of today that you can’t escape from. Wonderful solos by Jasmin Gundermann, Jakob Grimm, Alistair Duncan, Leonhard Kuhn and Matthias Lindermayr!
Hubertussaal Nuremberg
It was amazing to play at Hubertussaal Nuremberg again, thanks to everyone who showed up! We played two new pieces, one with an infernal drum and bass battle (Leif and Ferdinand) and we are so happy about the great concert review by Nuremberg Nachrichten …”the most crazy and virtuoso Brass Band around“:)
Zappanale #29
It was a great pleasure to play at Zappanale Festival – „Don’t accept any substitute !“ A Big Thanks to Bad Doberan, an awesome festival, and a wonderful audience! Have a lovely summer, and see you in Nuremberg on Sept.15 at Hubertussaal!
Monika und die Bigband
p.s. Our pianist Josef has a similar beard,…
Fusion Festival 2018
Truelly one of the most inspiring places to be!
Thank you Fusion Festival 2018!!
This was such a pleasure to be part of it and meet so many different people, a variety of music, visual artists and people with great ideas and visions!
This were some beautiful, wild and enchanting days!
Summer Festivals 2018
Bingen Swingt 23.6.
Fusion Festival 27.6.
Zappanale 22.7.
Nürnberg 15.9.
We are so excited to be playing this great Festivals in the Summer!
MRBB in St Petersburg: The opening concert of the 15th „German Week“ in St. Petersburg
Its been an amazing Russia Tour with this Band!
We played in one of the craziest concert locations ever, a burned down church, St Petersburg is just stunning. We had a very exciting time there, from Germany to St Petersburg with Love!
(more tour fotos hier)
The opening concert of the 15th „German Week“ in St. Petersburg
After our concert on April 14th in Gauting close to Munich we will head to Russia with the whole band for the first time!
We will play two concerts in St Petersburg and we are so excited!
Check it out if you are close to St Petersburg!
18.4. Arkadi-Rajkin-Theater 19:00 Uhr
19.4. St. Annenkirche Kirotschnaja 20 Uhr
Monika
