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...
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...
Erdőfű
Erdőfű Erdőfű is a melting pot of musicians and bands from the forefront of Hungary’s folk and world music scene. Their name comes from the archetypal folk music tale about a shepherd who lost his sheep and searches for them in the forest’s grasses and clearings...
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...
Kapela Katarzyny Chodoń
Kapela Katarzyny Chodoń Members of the group have been conducting field research among singers and bands of the Cracow region since 2013. The result is a repertoire based on krakowiaks, polkas, chodzone and waltzes, leaning towards the northern borderlands of the...
Zwieże
Zwieże Zwieże is a family band whose members have been involved in the Polish traditional music scene for years. They play melodies from around Radom, Opoczno, Rawa, favorite obereks and mazurkas after Jan Kędzierski, Marian Lipiec, Gaca, Łomża, Fiderek and many other...
Zwykli Ludzie
Zwykli Ludzie The Zwykli Ludzie band was founded in 2014 by married couple Joanna and Stanisław Strelnik. As part of the band, Stanisław plays music from northern Opoczno region (after Józef Fiderek and Władysław Koperkiewicz), while Joanna plays music from western...
Warszawsko-Lubelska Orkiestra Dęta
Warszawsko-Lubelska Orkiestra Dęta Warszawsko-Lubelska Orkiestra Dęta was formed in autumn 2017 in Warsaw at the Embassy of Traditional Music under the influence of strong inspiration from archives, but also from lively encounters with Lublin brass bands, which are...
Piękna Kompania
Piękna Kompania Piękna Kompania – is a band based on friendships formed in the homes of rural musicians, playing together and playing in local firehouses. We play after Leon Lewandowski, Jozef Tomczyk (Kalisz), Jan and Piotr Gaca, Marian Wójcik, Jozef Papis...
Janusz Prusinowski Kompania
Janusz Prusinowski Kompania Students and continuators of the work of village musicians – Jan Lewandowski, Kaziemierz Meto, Józef Zaraś, Piotr and Jan Gaca, and many others – and an avant-garde formation with a characteristic sound and their own language of...
Chłopcy z Nowoszyszek
Chłopcy z Nowoszyszek Chłopcy z Nowoszyszek is a band founded by enthusiasts of traditional music from the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian borderland. The group’s repertoire consists of dance tunes: polkas, waltzes, obereks, foxtrots, krakowiak – more widely...
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 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...
