Very Old Stoariegler Dixieland Band

There are not many bands that have remained loyal to their music and their fans for 50 years: "The Who," the "Rolling Stones," and the "Very Old Stoariegler Dixieland Band."

It was in March 1976 when some peculiar figures appeared at Stoarieglberg in Fürstenfeld. Musicians loitering around Styria and nearby Burgenland were invited to form a Dixieland band. The spark that ignited this idea was the television show "Fatty's Salon," where Fatty George (clarinet), Oscar Klein (trumpet), and other virtuosos fulfilled viewers' wishes live. In short, Johannes Hödl founded the band, which was initially called "Stoariegler Blechmusi," and in the following years, due to the risk of confusion, it was eventually renamed "Old Stoariegler Dixieland Band" and then "Very Old Stoariegler Dixieland Band" in 2016. They won the Styrian band competition (1977), played with Fatty George (1979), competed with Andy Borg in the then-new TV show "Die große Chance" (1982) for the victory, were guests live on Musikantenstadl, and produced records, CDs, and funny anecdotes.

That was all a long time ago. Now the "Very Old Stoariegler Dixieland Band" - probably the funniest jazz band in Austria - comes with slapstick in the style of Mickey Katz and Spike Jones, with Dixieland classics from Louis Armstrong, Chris Barber, Sidney Bechet, or Louis Prima, and hits like Hello Dolly, Icecream, Oh When The Saints, Struttin With Some Barbecue, Yes Sir, Honeysuckle Rose, Blue Danube, Oh Sole Mio, Beer Barrel Polka, and they delight and entertain their audience just as they did then and now.