Monika Kucia

Monika Kucia

Monika Kucia Curator and performer. Designer of artistic culinary events. Expert and promoter of regional and traditional cuisine. Designer of international study visits for national institutions. Member of the Board of the Festival New Epiphanies and the European...
Obourek Trancexpress

Obourek Trancexpress

Obourek Trancexpress Obourek Trancexpress is a music project created at the meeting point of two live traditions: French bourree and Polish oberek. The triple metre rhythms once common in traditional music in many regions of Europe today are a relic and heritage of...
Leanne Barbo

Leanne Barbo

Leanne Barbo Musician and returning guest at our festival. She plays bagpipes and kannel and is an expert on Estonian and Latvian traditions and participant of many music projects, as well as renowned music teacher. Allbanddancermusicianotherssinger Monika Kucia...
Luca Buccarella

Luca Buccarella

Luca Buccarella Multi-instrumentalist musician, music therapist and expert teacher of the musical traditions of southern Italy. He is one of the founding members of the Kalascima group, one of the most important and innovative bands in the world music scene....
Kapela Łysogórska

Kapela Łysogórska

Kapela Łysogórska Founded in 2016, it is a mix of youth and experience created by three generations of music enthusiasts from Świętokrzyskie Mountains. They play typical instruments from their region: violin, clarinet, trumpet, accordion and bereban. Lately they have...
Anna Chuda

Anna Chuda

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...
Veronica Calati

Veronica Calati

Veronica Calati Veronica comes from Miggiano (Lecce). She fell in love with the popular dance of ‘Pizzica’ which originates in her region so much that she chose to follow it as a career and her main area of creative expression.She has collaborated with a large number...
Gołcunecki

Gołcunecki

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...
Kresowianka

Kresowianka

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...
Stanisław Mazurek

Stanisław Mazurek

Stanisław Mazurek Luthier, musician, instrument collector, renovator of Polish musical antiques and co-author of scientific publications on the subject. He runs Szczecin-based Ditonus atelier, where beside craftsmanship he devotes time to vocal practice: natural voice...
Singers from Dobrowoda

Singers from Dobrowoda

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...
Salentrio

Salentrio

Salentrio The project was born from the musical meeting of three talented protagonists of the Italian popular and world music scene: Massimiliano De Marco, Luca Buccarella and Roberto Chiga.From very young they form their musical taste thanks to the meeting with some...
Massimiliano De Marco

Massimiliano De Marco

Massimiliano De Marco Instrumentalist and singer, enthusiast of polyphonic singing and romantic serenades. He plays the guitar, bouzouki, mandolin and tambourine. He learned at a young age from Antonio Calsolaro and performed with musical ensemble from Alessano. He...
Bujne Ziele

Bujne Ziele

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...
Roberto Chiga

Roberto Chiga

Roberto Chiga Percussionist, frame drummer, expert on Italian tamburello, specialized in ancient techniques of Apulia. He learned how to play tamburello from the most important older figures and traditional players of this instrument, such as Uccio Aloisi and Pino...
Malbrook

Malbrook

Malbrook Malbrook (Schwerin, Germany) Ernst Poets – concertinaWolfgang Meyering – mandola, vocalsRalf Gehler – diatonic harmonica, bagpipes, jaw harp, vocals The ensemble performs traditional dance music from northern Germany and sings folk songs in...
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...
Leon Lewandowski

Leon Lewandowski

Leon Lewandowski Born 1926 in Pałka village, Kalisz region, Brzeziny commune. As a child, he learned to play cheap fiddle while grazing cows, and later became first rate wedding fiddler, playing at weddings within 20 km distance. Used to play with the best harmonists....