News

Hello there!
We are back from Australia and are still busy to realize all the impressions we got there. For the first time in Van Canto's history we gave a workshop (for 86 singers!), teaching them how to sing metal a cappella in 4 days, 5 hours each.
A Van Canto show, together with the choir and a final concert with all choirs of the festival were just a perfect highlight of our time at the other side of the world.

We will play some gigs this year and then focus on new creative work, about which we will post some news in some weeks. Stay tuned!

Tarja Turunen just released her DVD "Luna Park Ride".
It also shows our show in Wacken with the song "Anteroom of Death".
Check out www.tarja-lunaparkride.com

We are very sad that we have to announce the postponement of our upcoming Van Canto shows in Russia and Belarus.
One of the band members fell suddenly very sick and the doctors prohibited him from flying and any strenuous exercise as this would mean a major threat to his health.
After thinking over all possible solutions we came to the conclusion that unfortunately there is no other way than moving the concerts to a later date.
All tickets remain valid and we are working at full speed to announce alternate dates as soon as possible.

Hi,
in 2015 we will focus on our creative work, results yet to be announced ;-)

Nevertheless we will play some gigs, for the first time in Spain, Australia and Belarus. And some german gigs as well!

See you,
VAN CANTO

After our gig at the Wacken Open Air with a full choir, we decided to do it again!
We start our "Voicefest" and are going to play 3 german shows with full choir support!

We will show up on December 12th in Hamburg, December 13th in Bochum and December 14th in Frankfurt. Special Guest are In Legend (with new songs), and Stimmgewalt from Berlin. We hope to meet you there to sing with us and our choir!

Tickets at Metaltix

Wacken, thank you for a great night! Thanks to all people in front of the stage, our crew and all at Wacken. And of course thanks to our special guests: Tarja Turunen, Chris Boltendahl, André Matos, Victor Smolski, Jörg Michael and Stimmgewalt.

We will play this year's Wacken Open Air!

This will be an exclusive show with Special Guests:

• Tarja Turunen (Tarja, ex-Nightwish)
• Chris Boltendahl (Grave Digger)
• André Matos (ex-Angra)
• Victor Smolski (RAGE)
• Jörg Michael (Heavatar, ex-Stratovarius)
  and a full choir.

Be there, rain or shine!!!

Our TOUR OF THE BRAVE is over! THANK YOU VAN CANTIANS!

Thanks to all our fans in Germany, Russia, France, Switzerland, Italy, Czech Republic, Great Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands for giving us such a warm welcome all over Europe.

Thanks to all fans from USA, Chile, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Austria and from all over the world travelling 1000 of miles to see our shows!

Thanks to our fantastic crew: Jan (Sound), Simon (Light), Olli (Drums and Backline), Kathrin (Merch), Laura and Tanja (Global Supervisors), Wolfgang (Busdriver) and Lukas (Ball Operator).

Thanks to Maria, Birke and Jörg from Twisted Talent, all local promoters and our Street Team for their support.

Thanks to Winterstorm and all special guests for their great music.

See some stage fotos here, the one in the middle is from our last show in Dortmund (Thanks to Saskia for the great photo).

We will be back and hope to meet you all again.

Love and Rakkatakka,
Van Canto

Our tour runs great, we are happy about full and sold out venues, and the greatest fans on earth. See an example from Aschaffenburg.

For all visitors of the Hamburg concert: Please send your name to vancanto [at] vancanto [punkt] de and we will send you the promised download link after the tour. Thank you!

We had a great start of our tour in Russia, followed by shows in France, Belgium and Germany.
Now we're heading off to Milan, Munich, Prague and Ludwigsburg. Hope to meet you there! Rakkatakka!