De Randfichten are a

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Volksmusik Alpine folk music (german: Alpenländische Volksmusik; German's ''Volksmusik'' means "people's music" or as a Germanic connotative translation, "folk's music") is the common umbrella designation of a number of related styles of traditional folk m ...

'' (folk music) band from Johanngeorgenstadt,

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. Founded in 1992 as ''Original Arzgebirgische Randfichten'' by Thomas "Rups" Unger and Michael "Michl" Rostig, they were renamed to ''De Randfichten'' in 1997. In that year Thomas "Lauti" Lauterbach became a band member, and they released their first album ''Do pfeift dr Fuchs''. Their song "Lebt denn der alte Holzmichl noch?" reached #3 of the German single charts in July 2004 and was in the German Top 100 for 56 weeks. The song is based on a traditional folk song "Der Hausmichl". After the "Holzmichl" song they had six other singles in the German charts, "De lustigen Holzhackerleit", "Jetzt geht die Party richtig los", "Das kommt vom Rudern", "Nananana", "Rups am Grill" and "Du kleine Fliege"; the most recent of these was in 2012. In 2005, the group represented

in the

Bundesvision Song Contest 2005 The Bundesvision Song Contest 2005 was the first edition of the annual Bundesvision Song Contest musical event. The contest was held on 12 February 2005 at the König Pilsener Arena in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The contest was hosted by ...

, with the song "Jetzt geht die Party richtig los", placing 6th with 71 points.

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