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...
Iryna Klymenko

Iryna Klymenko

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...
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 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...
Taras Kompaniczenko

Taras Kompaniczenko

Taras Kompaniczenko Kobza and hurdy gurdy player, art historian and musicologist, honoured with the title of Ukraine’s Esteemed Artist, founder of Chorea Kozatska. He reconstructs early music of Ruthenia – Ukraine from the Middle Ages through Renaissance and...
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,...