The multinational Celtic folk band, which has won two Irish Music Awards and numerous other awards, celebrates its 20th stage anniversary.

In 2003, four close folk musicians joined forces to form CARA (Gaelic: friend) and to this day, friendship plays a central role in the band, in addition to their shared love of the traditional music of Ireland and Scotland.

In the 20 years of their existence, CARA have earned an excellent reputation, often highlighting their innovative arrangements, original compositions and songwriting, as well as their virtuoso performance and charismatic stage presence. They create their own sound, in which the voices of the two singers Gudrun Walther and Kim Edgar are at the center. The vocal arc ranges from dreamy ballads to archaic Gaelic mouth music to their own songs with current socio-political references, with the two lead singers Gudrun Walther and Kim Edgar always complementing each other with somnambulistic certainty. 

The songs alternate with fast-paced instrumental pieces that live from the virtuoso interplay of fiddle and uilleann pipes. The Irish bagpipes, which were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017, are played by Cara newcomer Simon Pfisterer, who studied this extraordinary instrument at the University of Limerick. 

What also makes CARA special are the interaction of guitar and piano and the band's unusual and rhythmically and harmonically rich arrangements. They bear the signature of Jürgen Treyz, guitarist, producer and musical mastermind of the band.

Francesco DuranteConcerto for Strings in F minor No. 1 1684 – 1755 Antonio VivaldiMotet RV 626 In furore iustissimae 1678 – 1741 Soprano, strings, Bc Jean SibeliusImpromptu 1865 - 1957 Georg Friedrich Händel«Se pietà di me non sent» 1685 – 1759 Soprano, strings, Bc Antonio VivaldiConcerto for 2 cellos in G minor RV 531 1678 – 1741 Performers
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<br>ensemble:
<br>Orchestrina Chur
<br> line:
<br>Anita Jehli
<br>soloist:
<br>Manuela Tuena-Menghini, soprano Robert Grossmann, theorbo Anita Jehli & Marianne van Wijnkoop, violoncello

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Pastor Ivana Bendik, Pastor Gion-Luzi Bühler, Elisabeth Sulser and musicians.

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