by Redakcja | Apr 16, 2018
The Niwińskis Band They are students of village musicians, practitioners and researchers of the music tradition in Central Poland, initiators and participants of numerous actions for the revival of folk music. They take their repertoire from violin traditions of...
by Redakcja | Apr 13, 2018
Singers from Przemyśl vicinity The Singers from Przemyśl vicinity are a group of artists connected with the Muzyka Dawna w Jarosławiu (Early Music in Jarosław) Society, who perform traditional music of Subcarpathia, in particular the Polish-Ruthenian borderland. They...
by Redakcja | Apr 12, 2018
Maria Siwiec Born in 1959 near Przysucha in the unusually musical micro region of Kajoki. She has been singing from the youngest age, first with her dad and sisters, then as a wedding bridesmaid at capping ceremonies. From 1980 she sang with Zakukała Kukułeczka...
by Redakcja | Apr 4, 2018
Taras Kompaniczenko Kobza and hurdy gurdy player, art historian and musicologist, honoured with the title of Ukraine’s Esteemed Artist, founder of Chorea Kozatska. He reconstructs early music of Ruthenia – Ukraine from the Middle Ages through Renaissance and...
by Redakcja | Apr 4, 2018
Antczak Band Probably the last family band around Kalisz. Józef Antczak plays the fiddle, his son Leszek – the accordion. They play local, non-stylized music, where simplicity and conservative character are reminiscent of long wedding performances. The repertoire...
by Redakcja | Apr 4, 2018
Janusz Prusinowski Kompania Apprentices and continuers of village musicians – Jan Lewandowski, Kazimierz Meto, Józef Zaraś, Piotr and Jan Gaca, Tadeusz Kubiak and many others – and avant-garde group with a characteristic sound and original “language” of improvisation....
by Redakcja | Apr 4, 2018
Mateusz Raszewski Born 1980, instrument maker, fiddler, mountaineer. The last apprentice of Jan Gaca and the first of Leon Lewandowski. Does field research in Kalisz region, resulting with hundreds of recordings featuring folk musicians, vocalists and genuine...
by Redakcja | Apr 4, 2018
Bogumiła and Piotr Zgorzelski A couple who for many years have been promoting and teaching Polish traditional dance in an off-stage non-styled form. They have made dance lessons videos on YouTube – Taniec Tradycyjny PL and www.taniec.edu.pl webpage co-created...
by Redakcja | Apr 4, 2018
Katarzyna Rosik From 2008 she has researched traditional culture and music of Polish countryside in different regions. She has learned to sing, dance and play tambourine from masters of music craft. She feels particularly close to the music from Kajoki micro region,...
by Redakcja | Apr 4, 2018
Maria Bienias Born 1943 in Wola Korycka Górna near Garwolin. She is an accomplished singer ande xpert in local traditions. From the young age she heard stories from her mother and grandmother, which she now shares, as she describes what it used to be like in old...
by Redakcja | Apr 4, 2018
Vigüela In few words Vigüela take their tradition with accuracy and show it is a living music, full of joy, and showing it doesn ́t need to be denatured to divulge it. They have been working for 30 years to keep alive this style from their land, Castilla-La Mancha,...
by Redakcja | Apr 4, 2018
Serhij Ohrymczuk Band The band is a string quartet conducted by an accomplished violinist and folklore reconstructor Serhiy Okhrymchuk, also member of Drevo and Chorea Kazastska. The band is co-created by Anghela Zaitseva, Severyn Danyleiko and Mikhail Kachalov, who...
by Redakcja | Apr 4, 2018
Krajka The Krajka ensemble was founded in 2011 in Przemyśl by students of the Ukrainian-speaking Markyan Shashkyevych junior middle school. For them multivocal singing has been a long-established family tradition. At first fascinated by the folclore of Polesia and...
by Redakcja | Apr 4, 2018
Helena Szych Born 1939 in Piegonisko Kolonia, Kalisz region, Brzeziny commune. In the past, she would sing at local events such as „pierzochy” (tearing feathers), May mass or weddings. For many years, she also participated in wakes, singing and maintaining this...
by Redakcja | Apr 4, 2018
Joanna Szaflik Born 1984 in Sieradz. Currently residing in Poznań, she is interested in music of Greater Poland and her homeland, Sieradz region. Starting in 2014, she has been studying the rich musical archives of the Kalisz Local Museum. Since then, she has focused...
by Redakcja | Apr 4, 2018
Józef Tomczyk Band The band has played together since 1993, today its members are: Józef Tomczyk (b. 1940 in Mroczki Wielkie, Kalisz region, Szczytniki commune) – fiddle, Zenon Lipiński (b. 1941 in Dąbrowa) – drum, and until 2015 the late Stanisław Szafirowicz...
by Redakcja | Apr 4, 2018
Leon Lewandowski Born 1926 in Pałka village, Kalisz region, Brzeziny commune. As a child, he learned to play cheap fiddle while grazing cows, and later became first rate wedding fiddler, playing at weddings within 20 km distance. Used to play with the best harmonists....
by Redakcja | Apr 3, 2018
Gołoborze band Allbanddancermusicianotherssinger Monika Kucia Obourek Trancexpress Leanne Barbo Luca Buccarella The Lipiecs Band Kapela Łysogórska Anna Chuda Ewa Grochowska Veronica Calati Gołcunecki Kresowianka Stanisław Mazurek Singers from Dobrowoda Salentrio...
