Frank­furter or Wiener? How to know which one to order? Watch our lat­est YouTube video for one way of set­tling upcom­ing Wurst issues — With spe­cial thanks to Chisayo Lewis for her hand-made crafty craft cre­ation of Igudes­man & Joo. The other way demands more intel­lec­tual capac­i­ties: Fol­low the rules and mem­o­rize excep­tions.
When in Frank­furt, order Wiener.
When in Vienna, order Frank­furter.
Now, let’s turn towards excep­tions: when in Berlin, order Cur­ry­wurst. When in Stuttgart, order Bratwurst. Actu­ally, there’s an excep­tion to this excep­tion: What you really should order in Stuttgart is Spät­zle. Or a Mer­cedes.
… and that’s about it. All you need to know. See? Easy. Fol­low the rules and mem­o­rize excep­tions.  Read more…

SWITZERLAND and LIECHTENSTEIN, get out your Alphorns!
IGDUESMAN & JOO are work­ing hard to tune their Ger­man lan­guage skills to the some­times fine, mostly rough har­monies of “Schwyz­erdütsch” (Swiss Ger­man). What for? To impress the crowd! Where? “A Lit­tle Night­mare Music” in Riehen (SUI) and Schaan (LIE), “BIG Night­mare Music” in Zurich! When? In just a week’s time!
May 13, 19:30 | Riehen, SUI | Landgasthof Riehen
May 14, 20:00 | Schaan, LIE | SAL — Saal am Lin­daplatz
May 18, 19:30 | Zurich, SUI | Ton­halle Zurich

Count­ing the days! We’re com­ing to Ham­burg — ONLY A WEEK LEFT!
Watch how we declare our love to the one and only Ham­burg, pearl of the North, on YouTube.

If you’re just nearly as excited as we are about play­ing the LAEISZHALLE at ELBPHILHARMONIE you should lose no time and secure your ticket! Click here if you don’t want to miss out on this.  Read more…

Pic­ture cour­tesy of Greens­boro Sym­phony Orchestra

Have you heard? IGUDESMAN & JOO are in the U.S.! After suc­cess­ful shows in Ken­tucky and Geor­gia, the duo is about to per­form in North Car­olina this week­end! In case you missed out on some infor­ma­tion, we pro­vide you with links to the most promi­nent media announce­ments and inter­views — see below.
I & J on the radio:
WFDD, Wednes­day, April 10
WUNC, North Car­olina Pub­lic Radio, Tues­day, April 9
I & J on TV:
Fox 8, Tues­day, April 9
I & J in the news­pa­pers:
Win­ston Salem Jour­nal Sun­day, April 7
News & Record Go Triad Thurs­day, April 4
Check out these awe­some pic­tures from our 8 to 88 work­shop at UNCG! (Pic­tures from UNCG School of Music, The­atre and Dance)
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