marie & the redCat

marie & the redCat
met 2008 in Mannheim. Marie played her songs on a Songwriter stage one evening. When the guys saw this little, but in a way deep, girl singing and playing the guitar, they were taken with her. That was the beginning of a musical and interpersonal love.
The 5 musicians come from different places and scenes all over Germany. This mixture of origin and the completely different character of each one leads to a special drive: They complement one another and go on a journey. Marie writes the songs with her guitar. She tells stories that can be beautiful and light-footed, but also exhausting and black as a crow. Marie develops them out of snap-shots that she takes from her surrounding, sometimes they only exist in her head. In the rehearsal room she works out the special marie & the redCat-sound together with the guys, that arises out of the blood sweat and tears of every single one.
The band hopes to inspire its audience. They take it by the hand and on a journey. Everybody can indulge in his or her personal stories that move the most. They’re not telling their own stories, but stories that could be written down in an old book, that everyone could find in the attic….

Highllights

2013
SWR3 New Pop Festival

Final New Music Award 2013

„Beautiful Day“ is the soundtrack of the Starbucks campaign "sip face" in spring (TV and online) in the United States.

2012
Participation in the play „Zeit zu lieben, Zeit zu sterben“ by Fritz Kater at the Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin

Supported by INITIATIVE MUSIK for LP production and touring

Support for Seal at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Winner of the nationwide acoustic pop price „Jugend kulturell“ from the Hypovereinsbank

2011
Cooperation with the German Pops Orchestra and John Lord (Deep Purple), Rock Symphony, Salem

2010
Participation in the master class of the German Music Council, Popcamp