Founded in 1983, the band started playing Polka, Czardas and Musette and eventually found itself playing World music. Willie-le-Truc plays a mixture of eastern European music, trench tango, musette, Brazilian forr?, Bavarian Handler and Zwiefacher, with added sounds from Spain, Italy, Ireland, Norway and even from the Mississippi Delta.

By the use of the versatile application of the instruments (accordion, guitars, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, violin, double-bass & drums as our basic sound) in connection with additional instruments like dobro, mandolin, flutes, Scottish marching drum, washboard, gongs and other percussion instruments, the band is able to take the audience to the own soundworld of Willie-le-Truc and to give a new form of expression to worldmusic.

The group has added more and more brass (trumpet, trombone, tenor and tuba) to live performance and plays "brass music" in different clothes and choreographies. Willie-le-Truc is the cultural award winner from the city of Freising 1994.

Musicians:

Stephan Birk, Konstantin Ishchenko, Georg "Tollo" Miedl, Christoph Schulthei?, Reinhard Greiner, Klaus Lamac.

Official Web Site: www.willie-le-truc.de

Les serpents des charmeurs (1994)

Di Grine (1995)

0 maior tocador (1997)

BalliPazzi, Wilde T?nze Vol. I (2003)

G 'schaut und nix g'seng, Wilde T?nze Vol. II (2003)

Stephan Birk
Duesseldorferstrasse 1,
D-80804 Munich, Germany,
Phone: +49 89 30 76 20 90 or Cell: +49 170 21 33 979
Mail: birkstephan@hotmail.com