Chronicle / Introduction

 

Trachtenkapelle Elters/Rhön is a German brass band who plays folk music since 1926.

  

 

The music is adequate to put a night into a musical setting taking part on a parade or playing a festival. The whole group consist of about 45 people but most time the group play their appearance with 25-35 persons.

  

 

The band are playing the appearances in acostume which have been wear in the mittle of 19^th century in the Rhön.

 

 

 

Elters is a little village with about 500 inhabitants in a little mountain called Rhön. The village is about 120 kilometers away from Frankfurt/Main in the middle of Germany.

 

 

Performances in foreign countries

 

1968	Austria Fritens
1974	Belgium Oostrozebeke / Knokke
1975	Belgium Leuven
1976	USA New York
1977	France Confelens
1978	Switzerland Uster
1979	Italy San Martino de Castrozzo / Bozen
1980	France Hasparren
1981	France Confelens
1985	France Confelens
1987	Frace Arles
1988	USA Washington / St. Paul / Fulda
1989	Polen Bialystok
1990	Ungarn Izmeny /Szekszárd / Pécs
1992	USA Minneapolis / Fulda / Las Vegas / St. Louis
1993	Slowakische Republik Bratislava
1998	Ägypten Ismailia / Suez / Kairo
1999	USA New Ulm / Fulda / Monroe / Chicago
2000	Spanien Castellon de la Plana
2002	France Mios/Montgyon
2003	France / Menton
2004	Hungary Pecz, Budapest
2005	Spain Bilbao