I'm Fina and I make pop music in German on the piano. With very personal lyrics, melancholic and hopeful at the same time, vulnerable and courageous, but always with a certain lightness. Comparable to artists like Birdy and Lina Maly. I'm currently writing my new EP and putting together a live band that I'd love to play with at your festival (either as a duo or as a four-piece, depending on how it fits).

We are nine people who met for the first time 3 years ago in the basement of a flat share and got to know each other through making music and jamming. Since then, we've put on a few concerts, an EP and many more tracks that are full of love and that we now want to share with the world.

The man behind KÔRNEL is Konstantin Kornel, who has now brought together a whole collective of talented musicians under this umbrella to explore a musical space in the field of alternative artpop (and everything in between). The collective has been playing the stages of the Cologne/Bonn region since 2021. We are currently recording our first album, which we plan to release at the end of 2023.

Maryaka's musical journey began at the age of 12 when she simply started playing off-key. This was followed by her first attempts at her own songs before she received positive feedback on her music for the first time when she took part in the Herne Youth Culture Prize, which gave her the motivation to continue with her music. She has been doing this intensively for around five years. Maryaka is now 25 years old, lives, studies, writes songs, sings and plays piano and guitar in Cologne.

After a few impressively mature and "wide" self-released songs over the past two years, Maryaka's first small physical release, grow/try, is now available. Two songs on 7" vinyl, released by Grand Hotel van Cleef and only available in the label's own online shop and at their concerts. The single is of course also available for streaming and there are videos for both songs on YouTube.

Emotional lyrics accompanied by melancholic guitar playing and piano are nothing special so far. But what Maryaka makes you feel through her songs is. With her unmistakable voice, the lyrical clarity and depth of an experienced blues singer and the spin and freshness of the youth of today, what Maryaka does is something special.

Melchi Vepouyoum is a singer-songwriter from Cameroon who has been living in Bonn for several years. He sings in his mother tongue Bamoun and his youth language Camfranglais, a mixture of English, French and local Cameroonian languages, as well as in French and English.

In his songs, Melchi recounts his experiences in his parents' village and his youth in the big city. In doing so, he describes the current realities of Cameroonian society. He talks about daily life in the villages, the situation of women and children and the importance of solidarity and love.