Artist Info: Minstrels

The Minstrels were a Swiss music group. The band consisted of Daniel "Dani" Fehr (piano, banjo), Mario Feurer (fiddle) and Pepe Solbach (guitar, voice). They became well known through the piece "Grüezi wohl, Frau Stirnimaa!, which is partly considered the "secret national anthem of Switzerland"

In 1967, the band came together in Zurich. Initially, they moved through Zurichs restaurants as hiking musicians in minstrel costumes, with a repertoire of folk, blues and Swiss folk music. [read more...]