MS³
MS³ NAME: MS³ (pronounced ‘em es three’ or ‘em es to the third’) – Maria Stępień trio; MS² is a place for contemporary art – MS³ is a space for contemporary folk art; the third – our own dimension of folk music. A chamber ensemble formed from the...
DvaTry
DvaTry DvaTry is a band from Kyiv and the surrounding area that performs traditional Ukrainian instrumental music, which was once danced to in rural areas. The band’s main goal is to bring this music back into contemporary everyday life so that it is not seen...
INTROIT
INTROIT The INTROIT initiative was founded in 2022 in Olsztyn by Robert Burdalski. It arose from the need to deepen the practice of singing post-liturgical services for the dead and penitential psalms in order to be able to sing and celebrate the funerals of loved...
Marta Domachowska
Marta Domachowska A dedicated ethnologist and researcher of Polish folk traditions, she learned her craft directly from rural singers, dancers, and musicians. A driving force in the folk music scene, she co-founded the Toruń-based group n obrotów and the Polish...
Robert Burdalski
Robert Burdalski Robert Budalski (born in 1974 in Morąg) – funeral singer from Olsztyn, researcher and traditional musician playing the baraban and bass drums. He has 25 years of experience in field research, documentation and practice of male singing traditions...
Memento Mori Dance Club
Memento Mori Dance Club Stories about the lives of saints. This experimental project, which borders on musical archaeology, focuses on the search for dance rhythms in traditional devotional songs from the Polish lowlands. Polonaise phrases and mazurka rhythms in All...
Andrzej Bieńkowski
Andrzej Bieńkowski Andrzej Bieńkowski (born 1946) is a painter, ethnographer and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Since 1980, during his trips to the countryside, he has accumulated an impressive private ethnographic archive containing thousands of...
Słodkie Fascynacje
Słodkie Fascynacje Słodkie Fascynacje perform music from the Łęczyca region, drawing on archives and their own field research. Their repertoire is mainly based on the work of Tadeusz Kubiak from Mchowice. The band’s sweet name comes from… a box of...
Kucharski / Pawlik Duo
Kucharski / Pawlik Duo Stanisław Pawlik, born in 1944 – drum with a stick Zenon Kucharski, born in 1948 – Polish accordion Both men have been associated with the cultural centre in Brzeziny for several decades. Zenon Kucharski, a polish accordion player, runs an organ...
Tadeusz Kubiak Band
Tadeusz Kubiak Band The Tadeusz Kubiak Band (Kapela im. Tadeusza Kubiaka), hailing from Leśmierz, continues the musical traditions of their master, Tadeusz Kubiak (1927–2008). The current line-up maintains a direct link to the source: Paweł Ladorucki (three-row Polish...
Mateusz Raszewski
Mateusz Raszewski Fiddler, harmonica player, student of rural masters, instrument maker, and a lover of the blackbirds’ song. He founded the Cultural Resistance Movement Foundation, an organization responsible for running significant cultural ventures in the Kalisz...
Mateusz Dobrowolski
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...
Piotr Zgorzelski
Piotr Zgorzelski Warsaw-based ethnologist, cultural educator, actor, and juror at traditional dance competitions. A key figure in reviving Polish traditional dances in social, non-stage forms, he founded and directs Poland’s first Traditional Dance Academy, which runs...
Gracze z Łęgu
Gracze z Łęgu A band that performs traditional music from Wielkopolska with a lineup of Wielkopolska bagpipes and baraban. The name alludes to the materials used to make the playing parts of Wielkopolska bagpipes, i.e. reeds and elderberries growing in riparian...
Muzička
Muzička The career of Muzička started with a performance at a friend’s wedding. This original success encouraged them in the continuation of their musical training. This also meant the beginning of a search for old authentic recordings – which were in opposition to...
Hraybery
Hraybery The HrayBery are bringing forgotten music back to life. Music that at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries resounded at the meeting point of intermingling cultures, today’s Polish-Ukrainian borderland in the Galician countryside. Most often –...
Julien Tymen / Tangi Pensec Duo
Julien Tymen / Tangi Pensec Duo Breton musicians Julien Tymen and Tangi Pensec have performed as a duo since 2020. Julien Tymen plays the bombard (a type of folk oboe) and is a six-time Brittany champion of the bagpipe-bombard duo competitions. Tangi Pensec plays the...
Sisters Klervie and Awena Guélou
Sisters Klervie and Awena Guélou Klervie and Awena sing the traditional kan ha diskan* (call-and-response singing accompanying dances). In 2023, they gave their first stage performance at the Kan ar Bobl competition and their career snowballed ever since! For nearly...
