{"id":5672,"date":"2026-05-13T16:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cara-music.com\/gudrun-walther\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:13:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:13:56","slug":"gudrun-walther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cara-music.com\/en\/gudrun-walther\/","title":{"rendered":"Gudrun Walther"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gudrun was brought up in a dynasty of fiddlers with Irish, German and French folk music and started to play traditional music on the fiddle at the age of six.<\/p>\n

Singing is something that she has been doing all her life.<\/p>\n

Gudrun is one of Germany\u2019s most sought-after and well-respected trad musicians. She also plays German traditional music together with J\u00fcrgen Treyz in the band Deitsch, earning them a big reputation in their home country. As a duo, herself and J\u00fcrgen love collaborating in projects with musicians from all over Europe – currently with Swedish duo V\u00c4SEN, with NARAGONIA from Belgium and with Nuala Kennedy, Kirstine Elise Pedersen, Albin Paulus and Andy Cutting as part of the \u201cplus one\u201d project. <\/p>\n

Gudrun won numerous awards with her music and recordings (German Folk Award, German Critics Award), guested on genre crossing albums (El Houssaine Kili, S\u00f6hne Mannheims) and performed as a soloist with orchestra (Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Le Concert Spirituel, Th\u00fcringer Sinfoniker). <\/p>\n

Her original songs and tunes are an integral part of Cara and some have been covered and recorded by folk bands in the USA and UK.<\/p>\n

In 2016, she was asked to guest with world-renowned Irish band, T\u00e9ada, filling in for Sligo fiddle master Ois\u00edn MacDiarmada. In 2022 she released \u201cHigh Doh\u201d, a trio album with Damian McKee (Beoga) and Aaron Jones (Old Blind Dogs) and started to tour in her new duo with world renowned button accordionist, Andy Cutting from England. Their album, \u201cConversations\u201d, won the acclaimed German Record Critics\u2019 Award in February 2024 and was awarded 5 out of 5 stars by Songlines (UK), Concerto (A), Folk London Magazine (UK) and Folk Wales (UK), among others. In 2024 she initiated Germany\u2019s Youth Folk Orchestra. <\/p>\n<\/div>