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If you want to know what we had been doing in the field of music in the past or what our future projects will be, you are at the right place! At our MonaLisa News you'll find a complete list of all our gigs and projects. To the very most of them we have something interesting or funny to report. We listed our entries chronologically - the latest story is the first one on the list. Scroll through or go directly to the year     

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Merry Christmas 2009!    Video MonaLisa - Jetzt ist Sommer
23 Dec 2009

MonaLisa play a German Christmas traditionalWe, Mona and Lisa, wish all our friends a wonderful Christmas Eve, a Happy New Year 2010, peace, love and that you make all your dreams come true.
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Adelaide Memories    Video MonaLisa - Jetzt ist Sommer
22 Jul 2009

MonaLisa covern "Jetzt ist Sommer" von den Wise GuysWith our version of "Jetzt ist Sommer" (Now it's summer - Wise Guys) we entertained the nearly 3000 students at our school in Adelaide on "International Assembly". We packed this video with heaps of scenes of our "Australian" life and friends. About our activities and the goodbye party read >> more

 


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MonaLisa in Down Under    MonaLisa video message from Adelaide
22 Apr 2009

MonaLisa GrußbotschaftIn this article we've posted our video message live from Adelaide! We thought you might be interested in seeing us personally, how we are doing, what it looks like here ... We taped and cut the video ourselves. Daddy helped us from the distance so here it is. It's on youtube too and of yourse we appreciate your answer! >> more

 


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Live Music Videos at Ayers Rock/Australia    Videos at Ayers Rock, Australia
13 Apr 2009

MonaLisa live vom Ayers Rock in AustralienNothing an no one is secure against us - not even the big, lonely red rock in the middle of the Australian no-man's-land. Shortly before sunset we walked along the mountain when we suddenly discovered a little cave with excellent acoustics. THAT was the perfect spot to tape two videos for you! >> more

 


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MonaLisa on air
24 Feb 2009

Radio OE1 CampusToday we are on the radio - at 7:30 pm European time. We will talk about our music and work and play some songs of our CDs. The interview is in German but the story how we came to do a radio interview is in English ;)  >> more
 


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"California Dreaming" - the Videos!    All "California Dreaming" Videos   
02 Feb 2009

scene picture of the "dark desert highway"Today we are presenting you our first studio-music-videos! To the songs of our "California Dreaming" EP we have taped our own videos, cutted them and added the sound. We filmed at original places in California and Austria. See for yourself! >> more

 


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"California Dreaming" - our new EP is out!   
30 Jan 2009

"California Dreaming 2008"EP stands for "Extended Play" and is something between a single and an album.

"California Dreaming", our first Studio-EP, is out.
Everything you can hear on this record (all instruments, vocals, ...) was played by ourselves and our band. 
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Goodbye Concert to Australia!    With Video Kansas City    
10 Jan 2009

Abschiedskonzert AustralienDid you hear already that we will spend a student exchange semester in Adelaide? But before we take off to "Down Under" we wanted to say goodbye from our families and friends appropriately. >> more

 


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Always new MonaLisa Videos!    All MonaLisa videos at one glance!
11 Sep 2008

New MonaLisa Videos!In addition to the Videos of our 1st Live Concert there are now Videos of our school concerts and our US live gigs. There's no boredom coming up with us!
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A Musical Day in Laguna Beach, CA    With Videos of MonaLisa on Laguna Beach and at Hennessey's Tavern
22 Jul 2008

MonLisa as buskers.In the evening we would play in a tavern called "Hennessey's" in Laguna Beach. But afore we wanted to dabble at busking. As you can see on the pics our bench was right next to the promenade.
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Live at Sol Grill in Newport Beach, CA    With Videos of MonaLisa and Dusty Leer
16 Jul 2008

Dusty invites MonaLisa to play at Sol Grill ...When Dusty (the man with the hat) heard that we would come back to California this summer he invited us to play again at "Sol Grill". He had reserved a whole hour for us and even invited all his friends not to miss our performance.
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Live at Hennessey's in Laguna Beach, CA    Videos of 2nd performance at Hennessey's
15 Jul 2008

MonaLisa liveat Hennessey's, Laguna Beach, CAIt weren't many people yet, and these few guests were busy with eating and chatting. As musicians we were in the background. We knew that most guests hadn't come in because of the music and that we would need to be good in order to get their attention ...  >> more
 


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Independence Day: BBQ, Pool & Blues    With Video - Smoke on the water open-air
04 Jul 2008

The Franzensdorf-Woodland Hills-Connection rocks ...California Dreaming: Sunday's living room already got converted into a rehearsal room. It didn't take us long to make friends with everybody. For the party guests we played "Smoke on the water" and the "Independence Day-Blues" with the other kids ...  >> more

 


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MonaLisa & Band in the "City & Life" Magazine
09 Jun 2008

"City & Life" articleThis minute the new issue of the youth magazine "City & Life"  landed in our postbox! What the excitement is all about?
... Attention, hold on tight! ... WE ... damdamdamdam ... HAVE ... damdamdam ... A ... DOUBLE PAGE ARTICLE IN THIS NUMBER!!!  >> more

 


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"Little Dining Serenade" - Bon Appétit!
06 Jun 2008

Live video clip of "Little Dining Serenade" by The 4 Head Chef Drummers!Orth Music School invited to their annual final concert in the National Park Mansion Orth an der Donau (River Danube). We participated with "Little Dining Serenade", a percussion ensemble piece. Yes, you remember correctly, we've won a prize with it at "Prima La Musica" music competition in March. Check out the Live-Video!  >> more

 


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Guitar Concert 2008 Polgar High School    With Videos of the Guitar Concert 2008
05 Jun 2008

Guitar Concert Polgar High School 2008We created a pretty unusual version of "Stairway to heaven": We performed it on guitars only, without singing. Simona and Tobi (also called "Santana-Boy" ;) played the chords while the others did the vocal- and flute melody in "two voices" on their guitars. That resulted in a wonderfully hamonizing sound!  >> more

 


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Drums n' Roses 2008 Polgar High School    With Videos of the Drums n' Roses Concert 2008   
04 Jun 2008

Drums n' Roses 2008You should have seen the stage - no empty place on it! There were standing, lying or hanging bongos, mallets, congas, djembes, snares, cymbals, rattles, drums, shakers, and so forth ...
Have a look at the videos of the school band and the drummers!
 
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Live Concert Video Clips ready for you!    All Videos of our 1st Live-Concert Franzensdorf 2007
29 May 2008

Check out our Live Concert Videos!For all who did resp. did not join us at our live concerts!
You already asked yourself why there are no video clips of our 1st live concert available? Well, here they are - all 24 live concert songs, comfortably showing in the YouTube-Player whithout having to leave for YouTube. So, sit back and enjoy!
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Our first "real" CDs!
15 May 2008

Our first -real- 500 CDs are out!Yippie, our first "real" CDs arrived! What "real" should mean?
Well, some weeks ago we brought our 1st Live CD to a CD pressing plant. As we have sold so many of them already it is cheaper and more time-saving in the long run to get them pressed professionally. "Real" therefore means ...   >> more

 


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Extra Song Clips page!
20 Apr 2008

Go for our music clips!Some of our website-visitors have asked for a separate "Song Clips" button - so here you are! At this place you'll find decent long audio clips of each of our songs! We also added our instrumental line-up to each song, so you'll always know who had played which instrument!
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Our 1st OSCAR!
04 Apr 2008

Our 1st OSCAR!Yes, exactly! We've got presented our first OSCAR - namely a "Music School OSCAR", so even better J

How we did achieve that? No, we did not corrupt somebody ... ha, ha.
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"Prima La Musica" Music Contest
11 Mar 2008

"Prima La Musica" Music ContestPlaying in front of the jury was very exciting and gave us a good adrenaline-thrill. After our performance we had to wait about two hours for the presentation of prizes. Guess which prize we made! The solution of the riddle you'll get here: >> more

 


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MonaLisa-Twins.com 
08 Feb 2008

MonaLisa-Twins.com WebsiteOne of the bigger events is our website, of course - newly slipped! The best is to start at Home and read through the single chapters. It was lots of fun for us to write it. We hope that you enjoy reading, listening, writing ... as well. 
Just let us know!!
MonaLisa

 


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Student Exchange "Comenius"-Project
28 Jan 2008

Comenius-Project Polgar HighschoolThis time it was about an event with exchange students from Turkey. Students from our Highschool should tell them something about Vienna by means of Power Point presentations, videos and music samples. Together with other pupils we were in charge for the musical background. Read about a school-Monday like it should always be! >> more

 


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Advent Concert 2007 Orth at River Danube
22 Dec 2007
 

Brass Music Orth Advent ConcertOur drum teacher of Orth Music School also directs the Orth brass music. At the beginning of December he asked us if we wouldn't like to perform together with the brass music association. They wanted to play a song that also had vocal parts in its original version. So he wanted us to sing these parts!
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Christmas Concert 2007 at Polgar Highschool
19 Dec 2007

Christmas Concert 2007 at Polgar HighschoolThe annual Christmas Concert of Polgar Highschool was great again. Like every year we sang some songs, basically a bunch more than in the last years. But now there comes the best: We were allowed to present our own CD to about 200 - 300 people!!!
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1st Live-CD-Production
Fall 2007 

That's the cover or our 1st CD "MonaLisa and Band Live in Concert Franzensdorf 2007".The second-newest major project is our first own big CD which we completed shortly before Christmas (2007). On the page 1st Live-CD you can learn how we produced it. On the page CDs you have a track overview (with audio samples) and on Songs & Lyrics you'll find all songs with audio samples, lyrics, translations, infos about the original song and composer as well as about our cover version.
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Teacher's Celebration at Polgar Highschool
09 Nov 2007
 

MonaLisa Teacher's Celebration at Polgar HighschoolYou want to know what happened at the teacher's celebration? Well, we don't exactly know what they celebrated there in detail. Some of our teachers were honored resp. were appointed Superior Educational Counsellors and another teacher was said goodbye to retirement. However we were invited again to sing. >> more

 


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Wedding at Hainburg Castle Ruin
27 Oct 2007 

wedding at Hainburg castle ruinToday we had our first paid gig! What do you say? The bridal couple wanted to have some background music for their civil marriage and the following church service at the Hainburg castle ruin (Lower Austria). But why did they choose us of all?
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1st Live-Concert 2nd date
06 Oct 2007
 


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1st Live-Concert 1st date
29 Oct 2007
 

Live Concert 2007of MonaLisa and Band The day had come - You get up in the morning and know: "Today the concert takes place. And it can't be helped." And then it gets silent: People are sitting on their seats .......... they expectantly watch the stage ......... Our 1st Live-Concert with premiere of our 1st own composition "Alone" >> more

 


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Our aunt's birthday party
25 Aug 2007
 

Birthday party for our aunt RenéeIn early summer 2007 our uncle Herbert told us that our aunt Renée and he intended to throw a bithday-garden-party for her in August. Renée's birthday wish was an adequate musical entertainment. Nothing funnier than that! We anyway were practicing our live concert program for months. >> more

 


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Live-Performance at "Gipsy Den", Los Angeles
26 Jul 2007
 


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Live-Performance at "Sol Grill", Newport Beach, L. A.
25 Jul 2007
 

Sol Grill, Newport Beach, Open Mike, MonaLisaWell, it was already cool that we spent our holidays 2007 in America (Los Angeles). But we really never would have dreamt of performing publicly there! Of course we did not miss the chance of a public performance in America! How we got around to doing that?
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Live-Performance at "Alta Coffee Warehouse", L. A.
24 Jul 2007



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20th Jubilee of Orth/Danube Music School
15 Jun 2007

MonaLisa, Wild World, 20th jubilee of our Music SchoolAt that time we took some singing lessons and we had just started to study a body percussion piece, when we were asked to perform at the jubilee celebration of "20 Years of Orth Music School". Among others we sang the songs "Sunny" and "Wild World".  
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Guitar Concert 2007 at Polgar Highschool
15 May 2007
 

Guitar Concert 2007 at Polgar HighschoolThis year's guitar concert wasn't far anymore. I (Mona) had been learning guitar for my first year, and of course it was totally exciting for Lisa and me. I was deeply proud of myself standing on stage with this huge e-bass, accompanying the others. At least it was my first guitar/bass performance.  >> more

 


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The forming of "MonaLisa and Band"
Jan 2007 

MonaLisa and BandWith "band" in that case we mean our family band. Our Dad and Michaela (our step-mommy) have founded a band with us so that we could play together what we have learned in our music lessons. It's just more fun to make music with others instead of always practicing alone. How we came to form a band and how we meanwhile have developed ...
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Christmas Concert 2006 at Polgar Highschool
19 Dec 2006



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Students Concert at Orth/Danube Music School
14 Oct 2006



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Birthday-CD for Franz and Ilse
Summer 2006
 

MonaLisa singing for their grandparentsWe decided to present our grandpa Franz a self-made CD for his birthday. That was exciting! It was end of June, meaning it was nice and warm. We had put up tables with the mixing console, the laptop, etc.
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Birthday Concert 2006
18 Jun 2006
 

MonaLisa' private birthday concertOur 12th birthday had arrived. Like every year the party took place at our home. While thinking about entertainment for our friends we had the idea to play some songs for them. We were very jittery because all our friends from Elementary School and Highschool were there - about 30 kids in total. >> more

 


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DVD-Presentation: 25th Anniversary of Polgar Highschool
19 Oct 2005
 

MonaLisa, 25th anniversary of Polgar HighschoolThe Viennese Polgar Highschool celebrated its 25th jubilee. To this occasion there was a big celebration at our school, and some of the various performances were recorded on a DVD. It was our second "real" performance. As 6-graders we were 11 years old and were accorded the honor of presenting the Polgar-Rap to the audience. >> more
 

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