Mateusz Dobrowolski
Drummer, musician, journalist, and manager.
Co-founder of the award-winning Polish–Belarusian group Hajda Banda / Гайда Банда. Instructor at the Traditional Music Centre “Duże Mazurki” (Praga Cultural Centre, Warsaw), where he leads workshops in Poland and abroad.
He has performed with Warsaw Village Band (Kapela ze Wsi Warszawa), US Orchestra, R.U.T.A., and Kapela Piotra Kaznowskiego. His frame drum can be heard in the film “Our folks. The beginning” and in the electronic project Naphta.
Contributor to Songlines Magazine, Polish Radio’s Folk Culture Centre, and Jazz Forum.
Photo Karolina Majewska
