by Redakcja | Apr 6, 2026
Karolina Jadwiga Demianiuk Born in 1939 in the village of Dołhobrody (Lublin Voivodeship, Włodawa County), where she lives to this day. A multi-talented folk artist: singer, actress, poet. She also works in handicrafts: embroidery, lace, and weaving. Gifted with an...
by Redakcja | Apr 6, 2026
Ludmila Wostrikowa Ethnomusicologist and vocalist with a unique, velvety voice, and a wonderful, experienced teacher. She has organized and participated in numerous field studies and ethnomusicological expeditions in Polesia. Born in Rokitne, she received extensive...
by Redakcja | Apr 6, 2026
Katarzyna Zedel Ethnomusicologist, cultural studies scholar, musician, singer, and Gregorian chant enthusiast. Since 2008, she has been a student of rural musicians from the Radom region, including Jan Gaca, Jan Fokt, and Wiesława Gromadzka, musicians from the Lublin...
by Redakcja | Mar 31, 2026
Synnøve Brøndbo Plassen Synnøve Brøndbo Plassen is a 29 years old singer and folk musician from Folldal in Innlandet. Synnøve has quickly become one of the most wanted young folk musicians in Norway. She has a masters degree from the Norwegian academy of music in the...
by Redakcja | Nov 7, 2025
INTROIT The INTROIT initiative was founded in 2022 in Olsztyn by Robert Burdalski. It arose from the need to deepen the practice of singing post-liturgical services for the dead and penitential psalms in order to be able to sing and celebrate the funerals of loved...
by Redakcja | Oct 30, 2025
Robert Burdalski Robert Budalski (born in 1974 in Morąg) – funeral singer from Olsztyn, researcher and traditional musician playing the baraban and bass drums. He has 25 years of experience in field research, documentation and practice of male singing traditions...
by Redakcja | Apr 15, 2025
Sisters Klervie and Awena Guélou Klervie and Awena sing the traditional kan ha diskan* (call-and-response singing accompanying dances). In 2023, they gave their first stage performance at the Kan ar Bobl competition and their career snowballed ever since! For nearly...
by Redakcja | Apr 9, 2025
Iryna Klymenko Iryna Klymenko (Kiev) – ethnomusicologist with a PhD in art sciences, exceptional traditional singer. Lecturer of Ukrainian National Academy of Music in Kiev. She led over 90 field research trips to Ukrainian villages, studying over 400 of them. Author...
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....
