Deutsch-Amerikanisches Folksänger Treffen

The DAFT-Tour (Deutsch-Amerikanisches Folksänger Treffen) was a roots music and singer/songwriting festival that took place annually in a rotating pattern in both Germany and the United States in 2003 - 2005. The first DAFT-Tour took place in the summer of 2003 in Germany presenting three song poets from both Germany and the United States respectively. Following an opening concert in Dresden, where all artists performed a representative sampling of their craft, one American and one German artist paired up together to go on separate tours.

They performed in schools, at festivals, in pubs and a variety of music venues throughout different German states, such as Brandenburg, Bavaria, Lower Saxony, Thuringia, Berlin and Saxony. Under the motto “Revival of German-American Roots Music and Songwriting Traditions”, the DAFT-Tour 2004 took place in the United States from November 4 – 15 and featured a new batch of outstanding German and American singers and songwriters. One highlight of the tour was a performance on Veterans Day at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. With the endorsement of such folk luminaries as Pete Seeger and Tom Paxton, the American DAFT-Tour was off to become an exiting endeavor.

The tour has also been endorsed by PROFOLK, the German Association for Songs, Folk And World Music. In the 2005, the final DAFT-Tour took place in Germany with a special concert at the Martin-Guitar symposium in Markneukirchen, the birth place of Christian Friedrich Martin - the founder of Martin Guitar.