On June 22, the second day of the Full Hit Of Summer Festival took place in Vienna, Austria. The festival was organized by PSI2 music; it took place in the cozy venue of Arena, located in the city center. The place, which features an outdoor stage along with three buildings offering recreational areas, was packed.

The festival took place on June 20 and June 22. The first day saw a mix of Viennese and international bands performing, with Eagles of Death Metal as headliners. Beirut, the folk band coming from Santa Fe, New Mexico, headlined the second and final day of the festival. A thrilling crowd was longing the performance, and got completely caught into a magical atmosphere created by the band, as soon as the performance started. The day also saw the performances of Austrian multi-instrumentalist Matthias Frey, performing as Sweet Sweet Moon, of singer-songwriter Kurt Vile, and folk musician M Ward.

First time ever in Vienna for Beirut, as Zachary Francis Condon, frontman and founder of the Beirut project, told the audience. Certainly an excellent first time. The performance started at about 9:30 p.m. and went on for something more than one hour. There was not much interaction between the band and the audience in terms of talking, but there certainly was a very strong connection created by the performance and the excitement showed by the crowd.

The band went through its discography, performing several of the most famous hits, such as ‘Postcards From Italy.’ The members showed a level of maturity in terms of live performance, which can only be found in exceptional cases. Multi-instrumentalist Zachary Francis Condon sang, played and shook to the music getting completely into the soul of the show, and bringing the audience with him.

During the entire performance, Condon and the band also showed great humility, which made an already delicate performance even tenderer. The Balkan sonorities that characterize Beirut’s music, created a groovy rhythm that aroused the crowd. The majesty of the instruments that melted together created an inspiring and enchanted sound that seemed to reach and completely unify with the energetic nucleus of the concert attendees.

The band was able to serve the audience a cup full of some of the beautiful feelings that music and live performances can give. With the sole expression of music, the band was able to make the attendees leave the concert with the feeling they had just been loved very much.

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Beirut, the folk-rock band that was raised from the idea of Zachary Francis Condon, will tour for the entire summer. Beirut started as Condon’s solo music project, growing then into a band during the development of the first band’s album ‘Gulag Orkestar,’ released in 2006.

Starting at the end of May in the State of Washington, Beirut will tour the U.S., Canada and Europe, to satisfy as many fans as possible. The band will touch parks, arenas, theaters and festivals, such as the Full Hit of Summer Festival in Vienna, Austria, and the Calgary Folk Music Festival in Canada.

The band is currently promoting its latest album, released in 2011 via Pompeii Records, ‘The Rip Tide,’ which marked a line of change for Beirut. ‘Gulag Orkestar’ was the product of the European, and mainly Balkan, influences that Zachary Francis Condon acquired during his time spent in Europe, after dropping out of school at the age of sixteen.

When back in the U.S., he started working on the project with the help of external musicians, such as Jeremy Barnes (Neutral Milk Hotel, A Hawk and a Hacksaw) and Heather Trost (A Hawk and a Hacksaw), who joined the band at the time.

This kind of folk influence also characterizes Beirut’s second album ‘The Flying Club Cup,’ released in 2007, which, though, presents more French traits. ‘The Rip Tide’ maintains the roots of the band’s sound and does not betray the folk soul of it, but it takes a step forward in experimenting, creating, out of what was an already exceptional sound, a more mature and complete defining style.

‘The Rip Tide’ mixes the European/Balkan sentiment with the classic American sonorities, resulting in an unmatched piece of craft regarding the development of music styles.

According to fans, Beirut’s live performances manage to recreate on stage the same graceful and deep experience that the albums give the listener, enriching it with the live experience emotions; summing this to the greatness of the latest and the previous albums, Beirut’s concerts are surely a must-attend for this summer.

Here the complete list of Beirut’s live performances:

5/27 Sasquatch, The Gorge, WA
5/31 Primavera, Barcelona, Spain
6/02 Field Day 2012, Victoria Park, UK
6/04 Forbidden Fruit Festival, Dublin, Ireland
6/22 Full Hit Of Summer Festival – Arena, Vienna, Austria
6/23 Southside, Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany
6/24 Hurricane, Sheessel, Germany
6/26 Hove Festival, Arendal, NO
6/27 Train, Aarhus, Denmark
6/29 Rock Werchter, Werchter, Belgium
6/30 Open Source Festival, Dusseldorf, Germany
7/13 Quebec City Intl Summer Festival, Quebec City, QC
7/16 Metropolis Theatre, Montreal QC
7/17 Metroplois Theatre, Montreal
7/19 The Sound Academy, Toronto
7/21 The Cabooze, Minneapolis, MN
7/23 The Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg, Canada
7/25 Edmonton Event Centre, Edmonton, Canada
7/26 Calgary Folk Music Festival, Calgary, AB, Canada
7/28 Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, Canada
8/28 House of Blues Boston, 15 Lansdown Street Boston, MA
8/29 Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 72nd and 5th Avenue New York, NY
9/11 Barrowlands, Glasgow, Uk
9/12 Academy, Leeds, UK
9/14 Hammersmith HMV Apollo, London, UK
9/18 TonHalle, Munich, Germany
9/19 Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany
9/21 Turkcell Kurucesme Arena, Istanbul, Turkey

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The Full Hit of Summer Festival, presented by PSI2, is going to be a grand opening for the summer season. Taking place in Vienna, Austria, at the end of June, it gives music lovers the chance to gather in the cozy location of Arena Wien, to enjoy good music by a string of class performers.

The festival will take place on the 20th and on the 22nd of June. In contrast to the more plain and transport-heavy festival locations, usually in huge fields in the middle of nowhere, the Full Hit of Summer Festival takes place in the park of one of the historical clubs of the Austrian capital, located in the city center. And the performance level of the musicians promises to match the exclusive scenery.

On the first day of the festival, June 20, concert goers should prepare to be embraced by a mix of sounds that will vary from rock to funk, folk to indie, and give the attendees the chance to explore the vast nuances of music.

The American rock band Eagles of Death Metal, formed in the late ’90s and composed of Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures), will headline on the first day of the Full Hit of Summer Festival. Their pure Rock ‘n’ Roll will be accompanied by the folk rock of San Francisco rock duo Two Gallants. Furthermore the funk groove of the Phenomenal Handclap Band will heat up the night alongside the Viennese band M185, a talented indie band which promises a very interesting performance.

After a day of rest, returning attendees will have a chance to enjoy the second and last day of the festival. Folk-rock band Beirut will headline with their particular approach to music. If you have yet to get familiar with the New Mexico natives, this is probably on of the best moment to do so and experience Beirut in concert; after establishing their talent and astonishing musical capabilities with the band’s first two albums, Beirut demonstrated with the latest album to have matured, cementing their own approach to music and style. Hence this is a chance that should not be missed.

The folk atmosphere will be carried on by the singer-songwriter M Ward, who recently released his seventh studio album, welcomed by audience and critics. Rock will stay on stage with Kurt Vile (The War on Drugs), whose rock style exhoes the classics of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. Sweet Sweet Moon, the project of a young Austrian guy, multi-instrumentalist Matthias Frey, promises to give an intriguing performance on stage, as he is known to single handedly create the feeling of an entire orchestra.

The Full Hit of Summer Festival is set to prove a solid sensation for music lovers. A very well-designed festival, whose different acts promises to come together in a smooth plethora of sound. Buy tickets here.

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