Introducing Tante Friedl! Welcome to our website!
TANTE FRIEDL is a duo folk music project based out of Bavaria and Berlin, Germany.
Magdalena Kriss and Dan Wall play music from all over the world.  They picked up tunes and songs from other musicians and friends from different countries, so it happens that they sing and play music from the balkans, Eastern and Central Europe, Scandinavia, the Isles and North America.  From the yodel to scat, ballads to protest songs, murder to love songs, Tante Friedl hopes to paint images and landscapes of far away lands, struggles and joys from different perspectives with care, grit and sweet harmony.

Tante Friedl just finished the production of the radio theatre „Jolene“ for the Bayerische Rundfunk written and directed by Kilian Leypold and music by Tante Friedl. Broadcast on Bayern2 and release as a podcast in June 2020. Don't miss it! It's great! :-)

Introducing Tante Friedl! Welcome to our website!
TANTE FRIEDL is a duo folk music project based out of Bavaria and Berlin, Germany.
Magdalena Kriss and Dan Wall play music from all over the world.  They picked up tunes and songs from other musicians and friends from different countries, so it happens that they sing and play music from the balkans, Eastern and Central Europe, Scandinavia, the Isles and North America.  From the yodel to scat, ballads to protest songs, murder to love songs, Tante Friedl hopes to paint images and landscapes of far away lands, struggles and joys from different perspectives with care, grit and sweet harmony.

Tante Friedl just finished the production of the radio theatre „Jolene“ for the Bayerische Rundfunk written and directed by Kilian Leypold and music by Tante Friedl. Broadcast on Bayern2 and release as a podcast in June 2020. Don't miss it! It's great! :-)

what we play

what we play

Magdalena grew up playing the classical flute and as her interest in the folk sound grew, she picked up the accordion to support her vocal work.  Dan mainly sings and plays the 5 string open back banjo in a strange kind of clawhammer style. From time to time he’ll also pull out the fiddle, a blues harp or a Tambourine. 

Magdalena grew up playing the classical flute and as her interest in the folk sound grew, she picked up the accordion to support her vocal work.  Dan mainly sings and plays the 5 string open back banjo in a strange kind of clawhammer style. From time to time he’ll also pull out the fiddle, a blues harp or a Tambourine. 

Where did the name Tante Friedl come from? 

Where did the name Tante Friedl come from? 

We hope that people enjoy listening to the music of international folk as much as we do playing it! 

We hope that people enjoy listening to the music of international folk as much as we do playing it! 

Folk Music? 

Folk Music? 

We Believe that our folk music is not only a dinosaur from the past, but a living and breathing reflection of modern times with a healthy dose of a historical cultural context that informs the present and future.  Our music excepts the wonder and the burden of how cultures influenced each other in melody, meter and rhyme over hundreds of years, often through cultural appropriation and oppression.  But this music has shown us that through celebrating each others cultures we can empower each other and at the same time strengthen our sense of identity in a heathy way. 

We Believe that our folk music is not only a dinosaur from the past, but a living and breathing reflection of modern times with a healthy dose of a historical cultural context that informs the present and future.  Our music excepts the wonder and the burden of how cultures influenced each other in melody, meter and rhyme over hundreds of years, often through cultural appropriation and oppression.  But this music has shown us that through celebrating each others cultures we can empower each other and at the same time strengthen our sense of identity in a heathy way.