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...
Sisters Klervie and Awena Guélou
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...
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...
Kapela Katarzyny Andrzejowskiej
Kapela Katarzyny Andrzejowskiej Katarzyna Barbara Andrzejowska – a multi-instrumentalist who plays Polish country music. She drew her lessons from the source – the last generation of rural musicians. She was active in the movement to return to rural music...
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...
Piotr Zgorzelski
Piotr Zgorzelski Varsovian, ethnologist, dancer, cultural animator, actor, juror at traditional dance competitions, initiator of the revival of Polish traditional dances in non-stage forms. He established and runs the first Academy of Traditional Dance in Poland with...
Andrzej Malik
Andrzej Malik Harmonist, born in 1955 in Bąków (Kajoki microregion, Radom region). Very versatile, known and liked by older musicians, a student of the famous harmonist Jan Michalski from Klwów. Since childhood he played in wedding bands. Invited by Warsaw’s...
Grzegorz Ajdacki
Grzegorz Ajdacki Grzegorz Ajdacki promotes traditional dances and regional games for children, youth and adults. He runs classes, events and dance projects across Poland and abroad. He also educates himself, travelling the country and learning from village dancers....
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...
