DAUNZ!

The balfolk dance project DAUNZ! was founded in August 2007, but was in Valentin´s head since winter 2006. In february 2007 Valentin met Daniel Dobusch at a french dance session in Vienna´s Weberknecht, were Daniel played his accordion for the first time (!), and they planned to start a folkband in one or two years.. but Daniel learned to play his accordion really fast and started to be a fix participant at Vienna´s folk session scene. There they also met Jonny Cech, a great classical and folk fiddler and another musician with a big heart ;). After some sessions they all noticed that there was the right chemistry between them, so the main frame for DAUNZ! was found (July 2007). They thougt about which instruments could fit with them, so Valentin asked Vroni Knam, one of his former band members from Los Triptongos, if she wants to add them with her hurdy-gurdy and violin. Then they searched for a cello player and stumbled across Doreen from Graz (funny story ;) ). Another big star in the austrian and german folk scene and a good friend of Valentin and Daniel is Merit Zloch. After telling her what they are going to do they joked about if she wants to play with them, and no one thought about that she will say yes, but she did (thanks Merit!). So percussion was missing! Valentin asked his teacher Laurenz Schiffermüller if he wants to do some dance music in a "balfolk orchstra", so he came to a rehearsal and stayed :). Thats all for now, there are already a lot of compositions which are waiting for you, but please have some endurance, we are working like crazy to present them in the right way!