After touring the world with LLTV I played some concerts in my homecountry Austria. At home I unfortunately heard that my keyboardist Christian Cermak could not attend my performances. So I had to find someone else quickly. However, I did not find any keyboarder spontaneously and therefore I asked my producer and multi-instrumentalist German Schwarz to play the keyboard for the upcoming concerts. German Schwarz changed his place as a drummer to the keyboard. Thus, Bernhard Schopper played the new songs of my „Dream Awake Album“ on the Cajon.
The first gig was at Volksheim Traun. There I organized a live concert in combination with a travel lecture for the first time. I presented my experiences of my street world tour with videos and pictures. It was not too easy for me to tell travel stories, use the technology (computer) and then present my new songs from my Dream Awake album live with vocals and guitar.

I was particularly pleased that some friends, family and fans took time for my presentation. A highlight were Ashley and Thomas, who came from Birmingham/England to see the concerts in Traun and Kitzbühel live. I also was very pleasantly surprised that Manuel’s student from the BRG Traun 7a stopped by.

Afterwards we drove on to Kitzbühel to my home club „El Dorado“. Homeclub because I have performed there many times with my Ashram Bandmates in the past. At this concert in Kitzbühel, I felt a great deal of anticipation, knowing that my former students would come from the BG St. Johann and the HAK Kitzbühel (Info: I taught the last years as a teacher at these two schools and also worked as juniors Curling coach in the Bundesleistungszentrum in Kitzbühel). Laurin, Simon and Samuel have kindly advertised and announced my concert on the Social Media.

The concert was well attended and my students, friends and fans made a great atmosphere. Songs like „I’m free“, „Rock the show“ or „Ready for you“ were sung together in the choir. That was a special moment for me at my school concert at the BG / BORG St. Johann last year, when the pupils and the young people sang all my songs together and this time, of course, it was the same again. At the performance in Kitzbühel I had a „special guest“ with Arman M. (Instagram: „arman_m_music“). He perfectly accompanied all my songs with his guitar. He is only fifteen years old and is already studying music and guitar at the Innsbruck Conservatory. He has a great talent and I am very sure he has a great future as a musician too.

Then we went on to Vorarlberg where two very special concerts were played in Feldkirch and Dornbirn, two different prison institutions in one day. However, these two gigs behind „swedish curtains“ were not too special to me as we (my former bandmates from Ashram and Fur Balloon and me) have already played at Jusitzvollzugsanstalten many times. At that time, in addition to many concerts in Germany and Austria, we also rocked once in an Indian prison. Here is a Youtube link where we have posted a video of our seventy-fifth jailbreak of Johnny Cash’s „Folsom Prison Blues“: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd7TGvmP6CM
This time it was a bit different than usual, as I played for the first time more or less alone with my guitar in front of the prisoners – not all alone, German played the cajon. I mainly presented my new songs from my second album „Dream Awake“ and also told about my travel experiences as a street musician around the world. After the gig, as usual, there were short talks with the prisoners. These conversations with the prisoners often make me think. Especially during the longer trip in the car, we usually discuss the stories or fates of the prisoners and also about the general process of a human life, in this diverse world.

At the end of this little concert tour through Austria, I had a spontaneous concert in Freistadt. I also presented my new „Dream Awake“ songs in the cult pub „Sailor’s Bar“. Special thanks to Romana!
With these concerts and also with this blog post I would like to end my Dream Awake Tour. Right now I’m already working on new songs of a possibly third album. My second album will be released digitally on 01.08.2019. There will be a livestream for this, as I will present all my songs with my band. Time and platform of my “online concert” will be announced soon.
Many thanks to all who accompanied and supported me on the Dream Awake Tour over the past months! Let’s see what the year 2020 will bring.