Napięcie

Napięcie

Napięcie Napięcie – a Łódź-based group playing traditional dance music from Central Poland. They perform pieces found in archival recordings and those learned from living rural masters. Band members: Łukasz Nizik – violin Maria Nizik – drum Jakub Owczarek – bass...
Ewa Grochowska

Ewa Grochowska

Ewa Grochowska Ewa Grochowska researches styles of traditional singing (mainly ritual songs) in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe. She makes recordings in the field, runs workshops and gives concerts of Polish traditional songs and instrumental music in north...
Maria Siwiec

Maria Siwiec

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...
Janusz Prusinowski Kompania

Janusz Prusinowski Kompania

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....
Bogumiła and Piotr Zgorzelski

Bogumiła and Piotr Zgorzelski

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...
Katarzyna Rosik

Katarzyna Rosik

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,...