by Redakcja | Apr 13, 2024
Donja Jeka Vocal trio – Joanna Skowrońska (PL), Marta Derejczyk (PL) and Barbara Majnarić (CRO) – joined together by love for older layers of traditional singing styles and vocal forms.On Festiwal Wszystkie Mazurki Świata they will be performing songs from...
by Redakcja | Apr 13, 2024
Łada A vocal trio including an ethnologist, an archeomusicologist, and a Slavic studies specialist – performers as well as researchers of rural music.The band focuses mainly on the Dinaric Alps, especially Northern Dalmatia, Western Bosnia, and Western Serbia. This is...
by Redakcja | Apr 9, 2024
Joanna Gancarczyk Singer, visual artist, musician, pupil of village musicians and singers, teacher of traditional singing. For more than a dozen years, she has been collecting and performing traditional music mainly from central Poland, but also from Ukrainian and...
by Redakcja | Apr 9, 2024
Mariana Markhel Mariana Markhel – comes from Kiev, violinist, traditional singer and singing coach. Graduate of the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music (violin department) and member of the Academy’s orchestra. She participated in numerous...
by Redakcja | Apr 5, 2024
Joanna Skowrońska Joanna Maria Skowrońska is an ethnologist and vocalist specializing in the study and performance of Eastern European traditional music. Her field research, spanning Poland, Ukraine, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, informs her dynamic roles—from...
by Redakcja | Apr 4, 2024
Olga Kozieł She has been working with traditional music since 2005 when, for the first time, she heard the natural, unhampered, resonant, meaningful singing which enthralled her. Since then, she has been learning from the rural singers, listening to archival...
by Redakcja | Apr 4, 2024
Julita Charytoniuk Culture scholar, ethnomusicologist, singer, drummer, handicraft instructor. She learns from rural singers from Podlasie, Suwałki and Western Polesia regions. Vicepresident of the Stowarzyszenie Dziedzictwo Podlasia (Podlasie Heritage Association)....
by Redakcja | Apr 2, 2024
KUD Tomislav Donji Andrijevci KUD “Tomislav” from Doni Andrijevci (KUD – Kulturno-Umjetničko Društvo) has been active since 1939. It is one of the most famous and active amateur groups in Croatian Slavonia. Since 1999, KUD “Tomislav” has...
by Redakcja | Apr 2, 2024
Marta Derejczyk Ethnologist and Serbian scholar, field researcher, museum educator. Since 2008, she has been involved in documenting the intangible cultural heritage of Lower Silesia as part of the activities of the Ważka Foundation and the Ethnographic Museum in...
by Redakcja | Apr 2, 2024
Barbara Majnarić Barbara Majnarić is a Croatian singer and researcher of traditional music. Through the years, she has been singing in various singing groups and expanding her knowledge of traditional singing from various sources, including vocal pedagogies,...
by Redakcja | Apr 2, 2024
Kajsa Dahlström Kajsa Dahlström is a singer and experienced teacher. She graduated from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music with a degree in folk singing, her specialities are pedagogy, music therapy and choir directing. She has been involved in a wide variety of...
by Redakcja | Apr 2, 2024
Bogusława Drzewiecka Born in 1947 in Drzewce (Łódzkie voivodeship, Lipce Reymontowskie district). She learned to sing as a child while herding sheep and weeding. “These songs were in me, so I had to sing them out to the fields and meadows,” says Bogusława Drzewiecka....
by Redakcja | Apr 2, 2024
Róża Martyna Grabowska Singer and violinist, musically rooted in the Rawa and Łowicz regions. She learned, among others, from accordion player Czesław Kocemba, and archival recordings of violinists such as Stanisław Skiba, Jan Makowski, and Stanisław Klejnas. Her...
by Redakcja | Mar 25, 2019
Anna Chuda One of the most recognized active folk artists of the Biskupizna micro-region. She is an astounding singer, dancer and storyteller. Since childhood she has taken over from older generations the great amount of knowledge about biskupian customs and several...
by Redakcja | Mar 25, 2019
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...
by Redakcja | Mar 25, 2019
Gołcunecki This all-female vocal ensemble was founded by Maria Siwiec in 2012 in Gałki Rusinowskie, a small village not far from Opoczno in the Mazovia region. All the ladies from Gołcunecki have been singers since childhood and preserve the local mazurka singing...
by Redakcja | Mar 25, 2019
Kresowianka Kresowianka Regional Singing Ensemble from Letnin near Pyrzyce.The ensemble started in 1983 in the village of Letnin and in 1988 took the name Kresowianka (Maid from Borderlands), which conveys the character of its repertoire and makes reference to the...
by Redakcja | Mar 25, 2019
Singers from Dobrowoda The Singing Ensemble from Dobrowoda has been in existence since 1968. Its current line-up is: Walentyna Klimowicz (born 1943), Nina Jawdosiuk (born 1942) and Barbara Jakimiuk (born 1945). The songs they perform are unique for their melody and...
by Redakcja | Mar 25, 2019
Bujne Ziele Bujne Ziele singing ensemble from Szczecin.Bujne Ziele represents a wider group of participants of the musical project entitled “Genealogies: the Music of West Pomerania” conducted in Szczecin and Westpomeranian Voivodship under the direction of Ewa...
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...
