The 24th edition of Pohoda Festival has been postponed by a year, again. The full-fledged festival will be taking place between July 7 – 9, 2022. “The decision was made based on discussions with experts. We truly feel sorry about this, but we consider this decision to be the right and inevitable one. That said, we have started working on a series of smaller festival events titled “Pohoda on the Ground” that we are planning to organize at Trenčín Airport this summer,” says Michal Kaščák from Pohoda Festival team. → read more

Welcome to the Pohoda 20 → 22 section – frequently asked questions. Here you will find answers to frequently asked questions about the rescheduling of the 24th edition of Pohoda Festival to 2022. Answers to other questions regarding the festival are available in the Info section. If you still can’t find answers to your questions, please send an e-mail to info@pohodafestival.sk or message us on our Facebook page → read more

Tomorrow morning (Wednesday, April 7), after 9.00, we will announce what we've decided in connection with the 24th edition of Pohoda Festival during the morning show at Radio_FM, Afterwards at 6PM in the evening, we will tell you more about this summer, together with experts during a live stream on our Facebook page. You'll be able to participate by commenting during the live stream or by sending questions via Slido. → read more

Liraz, who is one of the confirmed performers of Pohoda 2021, dominated the renowned charts focused on World Music at the beginning of the year. Her album Zen made it into Transglobal World Music Chart and World Music Charts Europe (WMCE). In January, she was at the top of both charts, in February she again dominated WMCE and was in second place in the Transglobal World Music Chart. She has remained in the TOP 10 World Music Charts Europe for the third month in a row with her new album currently being number nine. → read more

A few weeks after Thom Yorke Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes cancelled their summer tour in the United States, their management informed us that they would not perform also in Europe this June and July: “Following the government’s forecast of the Covid-19 pandemic, we regret to announce the cancellation of all Thom Yorke Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes solo and festival performances in the Europe.” → read more

They are young, they study music composition and they like contemporary classical music, jazz and artpop. Despite the fact that they managed to play only one concert, they have already been praised by Kevin Cole from the American radio station KEXP and Michal Kaščák, who described their performance as one of the strongest moments of the new show Klubtúra. The talented God and Eve are releasing their debut EP The Creation on Slnko Records these days and will present it at the next Pohoda festival. → read more

We would like to remind you that due to the still complicated situation in connection with the pandemic, the management of the band Lola Marsh decided to postpone the Central European tour until October 2021. In any case, the band can't wait to return to Slovakia and perform great songs from the new album Someday Tomorrow Maybe. You can buy tickets at www.pohodafestival.sk/sk/shop. New dates: October 15 2021 - Žilina (Municipal Theater), October 16 2021 - Trenčín (Piano Club), October 17, 2021 - Bratislava (Refinery Gallery). → read more

Today, we have launched the official website dedicated to the documentary Orchestra from the Land of Silence about the first Afghan all-female orchestra, Zohra. Apart from the trailer and behind-the-scenes videos, the website features information about the documentary and its distribution at festivals. By the way, Orchestra from the Land of Silence currently has screenings scheduled at two film festivals in the US. Since February 12, it’s been a part of the Providence International Children’s Film Festival program and, starting today, it forms part of the 15th edition of the Seattle Children and Youth Film Festival as well. At both festivals, the documentary has been nominated in the main award categories. We keep our fingers crossed. https://orchesterzkrajinyticha.sk   → read more

Starting today, you can support the release of Black Angels Songs by Miroslav Tóth via Startlab. www.startlab.sk/blackangelssongs. The digital release is planned on March 14 and the album vinyl release will follow soon after that (the album cover was designed by our colleague Tereza Maco). The first part of Black Angels Songs was performed at the Concert for the Attentive on November 17, and you can watch the live stream of the second part during its premiere on March 14, 2021. → read more

The feasibility of open-air events during the pandemic has been discussed extensively among the experts and the organizers of Pohoda, as well as the organizers of other events since March. In the spring of last year, professors Krištúfková and Štefkovičová helped to adopt a decision to postpone the festival. Since the beginning of this year, experts have been suggesting that the situation will be compatible with the organization of the festival in early summer 2021 – of course, while following many production, security, communication and hygiene measures aimed at minimizing the risk of virus spread. We have been communicating very closely with Richard Kollár and Alexandra Bražinová from the Science Helps – Covid-19 initiative, and several inspiring ideas have already emerged from the meeting. At the same time, the organizers of cultural events in Slovakia do not sit idly by waiting for the situation to improve. In January, they offered to help state authorities and local governments in order to speed up the vaccination process as much as possible through the We Wish Slovakia Good Health initiative. → read more