About The Band

Beginning as street musicians in Barcelona, Rio Che and El Coba formed the solely instrumental acoustic project "Cobario".
The exceptional violinist Herwigos joined the guitarists in 2007, creating an out of the ordinary trio that has fascinated increasing amounts of listeners ever since.
Street-Shows

Since their beginning in Spain, Cobario is seen every year on the streets of the biggest and most beautiful cities as well as international street-art-festivals.
Their animating show is a specific type of street art. By sympathizing, laughing, astonishing and enjoying, it turns daily life into a special happening.
Therefore, beside concerts and performances of every kind, Cobario is playing mostly in summertime on the most prodigious and varied stage of the world: the street.
Recent News
Next stop
1. Sep.
Ferrara went well
a big thank you to the organisation
staff
and specially to the great audience
NEXT STOP
Hildesheim Germany
Invitation to Ferrara Buskers
14. Jun.
We are proud to tell you that Cobario was invited to the famous Ferrara Buskers
festival as one of the 20 invited music acts.
Great great news :-)
second place at the Ludwigsburg festival
25. May.
Cobario made the second place at the festival in Ludwigsburg,
Thank you we had a great time there !
Pictures will follow soon
1. Jury-Price at Streetmusicfestival
13. May.
Unbelievable! Last weekend we played at the Streetmusicfestival Bad Saulgau - there were lots of streetbands playing, and we got voted by the Jury as "best act" of the festival! The Audience was also voting in another category for the best act, and there we got voted on the 2. place, which is fantastic too!
Festivals in Certaldo and Lugano
4. May.
we are proud that cobario is reinvited to the Mercantia festival in Certaldo (Italy)
also we will be on the line in Lugano (Switzerland)
two grat festivals !
University-Summerfestival Munich
17. Apr.
After the invitation to the Kingston Buskers Festival in Canada, another great invitation arrived today! We got invited out of 650 Bands which applied to play at the University Summerfestival in Munich! Simply fantastic!
Kingston Buskers Festival CANADA
13. Apr.
Hey all
Cobario got invited to the Kingston Buskers Festival in Canada
we are all excited about this and cant wait to play there
regards
More gigs!
27. Mar.
There are again some more festivals/gigs, most of them in Germany! Check it out!
New festival-dates!
10. Mar.
There are 3 new festival-dates:
Cobario will play at 2 festivals in Germany (Streetmusicfestival Bad Saulgau, Streetmusicfestival Eppingen) and at one in Austria (Währinger Straßenspektakel). For details go to "Concerts".
Concert @ Cafe Carina
20. Feb.
We will play once again at the Cafe Carina, one of the most popular places for live-music in Vienna.
There will be new compositions ready!
Date: 30. April
Start: 22.00
International Streetart-Festival!
2. Feb.
Good News! Cobario got invited to play once again at the "Landshuter Stadtspektakel", an international Streetart-Festival in Germany!
For more details go to "Concerts".
Band of the Week
30. Dec.
Cobario got voted for the "Band of the Week" on the music-website "musiker-forum.at".
Furthermore, Cobario got invited to give an interview, which you can read if you click here.
New Homepage!
30. Dec.
After long time of hard work it is ready - the new homepage of Cobario!
We want to thank our webdesigner Daniel Kurdoghlian of the company "Pushing Pixels", who created this piece of art!
Furthermore, we want to thank Nessa Maeve, whose drawings from the 2. Album "Cobario Island" were used a second time for the design of the homepage.
Proud of our new homepage we are looking forward to receiving feedback from you!
Cobario
Upcoming Concerts
16.
September, 2010
start: 20h
Opening Gala - Landshuter Stadtspektakel - Rathausprunksaal Landshut
At the beginning of the gala Cobario will have a short show on their own - at the end they will support the great artist Pedro Tochas from Portugal in his show.
Other artists who will perform at the gala are Matthias Romir, Mr. Toons, Charlie Caper, who were perfoming with Cobario at the Landshuter Stadtspektakel 2009.
17-19
September, 2010
start: 15h
Landshuter Stadtspektakel - Landshut, Germany
One of the most popular international Streetart-Festivals in Germany. Artists from all over the world are presenting their shows (acrobatic, juggling, music, theater, puppet-theater, etc.)
We are invited the 3rd time: 2008 and 2009 were brillinat - we are looking forward to this special Festival, where we will present our new compositions!
Past Concerts
30.-01.
July/August, 2010
start: 18h
Bardentreffen Nürnberg - Germany
Streetshows during the Festival
14.-18.
July, 2010
start: 20h
Mercantia Festival, Certaldo, Italy
One of the biggest and most popular streetart-festivals in Italy. Artists from all over the world are coming to create a special atmosphere over 5 days.
03.
July, 2010
start: 15:30h
Festival Fantastika
Freistadt - OÖ
02.
July, 2010
start: 21h
Uni-Sommerfest München, Germany
We got invited out of 650 Bands which applied to play at that big festival! Simply fantastic! The festival is organized by the University of Munich and is existing since 1995. There will be 4 Bands playing from 21.00 to 02.00 - a night full of music!
21. - 23.
May, 2010
start: 18h
7.Festival Ludwigsburg, Baden Würtemberg, Germany
The biggest and most popular Streetmusicfestival in Germany with over 30 different groups of musicians.
25.
April, 2010
start: 14h
Streetmusic-Festival Eppingen, 75026 Eppingen, Germany
It is the 5th edition of this Festival. There will be more than 20 different groups of musicians.
24.
April, 2010
start: 15h
Gauklerfest Rottenburg, 72108 Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany
International Streetartfestival
13.
November, 2009
start: 20h
Cultural weekend - Pfarrsaal Korneuburg
2100 Korneuburg, Niederösterreich
10.
October, 2009
start: 19h
Wedding
Regensburg Bayern
29.
July, 2010
start: 21h
Kulturtage Betzenstein - Freibad Betzenstein, Germany
13-17.
September, 2009
start: 13h
Street-Tour
(Germany)
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Cobario
Liechtensteinstraße 61/8
1090 Vienna - Austria

RioChe
Mario Chehade
Guitar
RioChe is a viennese musician who commited himself to the sounds of nylonstrings.
His compositions are mostly of tragical nature and an important ingredient in the bands music.
Herwigos
Herwig Schaffner
Violin
Herwig Schaffner, alias herwigos started to play the violine at an early age. When he was only 15 he got accepted into the Mozartaeum in Salzburg and started to study the violine and the piano at the famous university.
In addition to taking part in several projects concerning chamber music and orchestra, which even involved journeys to China, he also succeeded as a composer.
Thus, his second symphonic creation was premiered in December 2009 in the worldfamous Wiener Musikvereinssaal. Being part of the band Cobario he has now a new musical project which enables him to express his creativity.

ElCoba
Jakob Lackner
Guitar
Before exploring his passion for instrumental music, El Coba was playing for several years in many rock- and coverbands.
„Coba“ means in the language of the Maya “water swayed by the wind”. Energy and motion is also reflected in his live-performances and compositions. Chairs are often fearing for their lifes, if Cobarios “Mr. Rhythm” is expressing his joy of life with his music…


























I’ve heard you in Comacchio at Buskers Festival few days ago, with the three of you playing on a boat placed along the canal. What a wonderful show it’s been! Never listened to anything like that before, any attempt at labelling it would reveal itself pretty useless. Hope to see you again in Italy soon
So Bardentreffen in Nürnberg vorbei, und ich muss sagen bin zwar bissl Geld los geworden aber eure CD´s haben sich gelohnt….. Hätt gleich noch mehr mitnehmen sollen, denn auch Freunde und Bekannte sind echt begeistert….. Danke für eure tolle Vorstellung, freu mich schon auf die nächste.. viel Glück weiterhin
This was the most haunting and emotion capturing music I have come across in awhile. I can”t stop playing it and telling everyone.
Thank you so much for coming to Kingston. You all played so wonderful! I will never ever forget it, thank you soo sooo soo much. I hope you had a great time here in Canada :) Hope you can come back some time as well.
Your music is incredible!
Hi guys!
I took some pictures of you last night in Certaldo.. I would be happy to send them to you, if you want of course. Just let me know where can I submit them..
Waiting to hearing from you!
Alice.
ps: You are great!
You guys were amazing at Kingston buskers thanks for coming to our city and livening things up!
Great, great music!
Always makes my day!
Keep it on,
greetz Jaz.
Hallo Ihr Drei!
Hab Euch beim Stassenmusikfestival in Ludwigsburg gesehen und gehört – und Ihr habt mich schlicht und einfach verzaubert! Vielen Dank für Eure wunderschöne Musik!
Liebe Grüsse
Sandra
Hallo Jungs,
ihr ward auf dem Straßenmusikfestival in Lubu einfach spitze! Tolle Klänge mit Pepp. Schön dass es noch solche Musik gibt:-)
Ich ärgere mich, dass ich keine CD mehr ergattern konnte:-(..
Viel Erfolg noch!!
Hey! Gefällt mir, eure Musik! Muss ich mir mal live anhören! :)
Awesome music to listen to while I’m drawing!
Your last concert was also great!
I’m inspired by your music, cya on myspace
geile website, das design und die Interaktion sind der Hammer!
Hi leute ist schön geworden eure seite !!!!
wenn ihr zufällig mal einen zweiten violinisten braucht lasst es mich wissen lg !
good job guys, nice page! see you on your next gig …
Gute Arbeit Lienad , coole Seite !
finally live ;)
nice one !
First official Guestbook entry!