"Funka Fliaga"

Happy New Year !!!

Frohes Neues Jahr !!!

December 31, 2024, at home

I am a huge fan of the pop music duo Bluatschink. They have been called The Austrian Simon and Garfunkel. I discovered them on one of my many trips to Austria to visit my Austrian cousins and to go skiing in the Austrian Alps. In the early 1980s, my father and I spent New Year's Eve at our Austrian cousins house on the side of a snowy mountain in the westernmost province of Vorarlberg. We watched the fireworks from above the small city where they lived.

There are only a few songs that make me feel like dancing. This is one of them. Feel free to dance or just sing along; the lyrics are on the screen. They are singing in an Austrian dialect of German called Tyrolean.

This music video for their song "Funka Fliaga" has a Happy New Year's theme, showing the traditional fireworks exhibited at midnight across Austria to usher in the new year. However, I do not know if the song is related to the new year. I do understand the basic German language, but I can only barely figure out the Tyrolean dialect which has vastly different spellings. 

https://youtu.be/3armVDCmF-s?si=a0cKKeQEukp7H3Fi

Aileen Santos