Memento Mori Dance Club

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 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...
Kapela Katarzyny Andrzejowskiej

Kapela Katarzyny Andrzejowskiej

Kapela Katarzyny Andrzejowskiej Katarzyna Barbara Andrzejowska – a multi-instrumentalist who plays Polish country music. She drew her lessons from the source – the last generation of rural musicians. She was active in the movement to return to rural music...
Diabubu

Diabubu

Diabubu ​The Diabubu Band was founded in 2011 in Lodz by Bartosz Puliński and Jakub Stefanowicz – then still teenagers and neighbors who had been trying to play together since they were little. In 2014 they were joined by Jakub Korona, and the trio continues to...
Tęgie Chłopy band

Tęgie Chłopy band

Tęgie Chłopy band The Tęgie Chłopy band continues the tradition of dance music of the Kielce region in its authentic and unstylized form. With its repertoire and instrumentation, it refers to the best models – traditional bands that used to play weddings and...
Agopsowicz band

Agopsowicz band

Agopsowicz band Agopsowicz band – enthusiasts, researchers, and players of traditional music from the Kajok microregion in the western Radom region. They document dancers, singers, and musicians and collaborate with them to create activities popularizing village music...
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 One of the best singers from the Radom region. Born in Gałki near Przysucha, in the musically remarkable micro-region of Kajoki. She grew up in the musical tradition of her village, listening to songs sung by her father, mother and older sisters since...
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,...