Former Genesis singer Ray Wilson and Fast Boy are coming to the Paderborn Spring Festival

Paderborn. The Paderborn broadcasting association has announced the main characters of this year’s spring festival: At the beginning of May, Scottish rocker Ray Wilson and electronic duo Fast Boy from Berlin will be on the big stage in front of Paderborn’s town hall on Friday and Saturday respectively. In addition to the two concerts, there will be another musical performance at the Spring Festival these evenings, the broadcasting association announced.

Ray Wilson has been active as a musician since the 1990s. He rose to fame, among other things, when he joined the rock band Genesis as a singer after Phil Collins left in 1996. Since the band’s disbandment, Wilson has continued to perform as a solo artist. . His latest album “The Wight of Man” was released in 2021. He will be on the stage of the town hall in Paderborn on Friday evening, May 3, from 9 pm

Musically, the Saturday evening of the Spring festival will be completely different: Fast Boy – these are the two brothers Lucas and Felix Hain – producing electronic dance music. In February 2023, “Forget You”, which Fast Boy released with DJ Topic, was released, one of the duo’s best-known songs to date, which quickly became a hit.

“Last year we had two DJs Younotus “We dared to do something new in style on the stage in front of the town hall and received a great response,” says Uwe Seibel, chairman of the broadcasters’ association. He thinks that Fast Boy can build on this success.

Paderborn Spring Festival

This year, the spring concert of the advertising community will be held from Friday to Sunday, May 3 to 5. In addition to the concerts with the two main actors, many other musicians and artists will present their skills and entertain the audience on other stages in the market square and Westernstrasse – all free and outside. The program offers “cultural diversity for all age groups,” writes the advertising association. The entire city center should be a party scene.

In the premiere this weekend, however, things will be very quiet: According to the news, the so-called “silent parties” will take place on Friday and Saturday in the school grounds of the Theodorianum high school and in front of the main entrance of Theology. Faculty at Kamp: with headphones you can last until one hour after midnight you can dance to the music of three DJs. The music goes directly to the celebrant’s ears and not to the surrounding area.

There is also a shopping Sunday on May 5. According to the news at the time, around 270,000 visitors flocked to the Spring Festival last year.