City of St. Gallen supports Hopes & Venom
The City of St.Gallen is awarding six work grants of CHF 10,000 each. Of the 27 applications, four were from the field of music. The work grant is intended to give Hopes & Venom founder Vanessa Engensperger the opportunity to further develop her band project.
In 2013, the St.Gallen band Hopes & Venom came second in the bandXost final in the Grabenhalle. It was there that founder Vanessa Engensperger (born in 1990) laid the foundations for wanting to make a living as a musician. Since then, she has continued to develop the band, networked in the local music scene and enjoys great recognition in her genre.
The music is a mix of neofolk, metal influences and dreamy rock. Vanessa Engensperger creates unconventional sounds, packs them into songs and thus creates music that opens up unfamiliar listening worlds to a cross-genre audience. Performances at the Open Air St.Gallen, the Weihern Open Air Festival and the Bergmal Festival in Zurich are among the most important stops for Hopes & Venom, who originally performed as a duo. In the last three years, a sound engineer and two St.Gallen dancers have regularly joined the band to support and enrich the live performances.
The only work contribution in the music category gives Vanessa Engensperger the opportunity to further develop her band project, expand the live shows and produce more elaborate videos. According to the city, this will bring her closer to her goal of creating a combination of different disciplines such as music, dance, video and light with Hopes & Venom.
