European Festival Awards launched voting in its annual survey. Pohoda is traditionally nominated in the Best Medium Sized Festival category. According to the organizers of the survey, these festivals also attract people by their specific genres or unique non-musical experiences. In the Newcomer of the Year category, we were pleased with the presence of excellent representatives of the heavier genres – Idles and Zeal & Ardor – who our festival attenders could have seen live, too. → read more

Tomorrow and on Wednesday, the discovery of Pohoda 2018, Donny Benét, will perform at the sold out concerts in Brno and Bratislava. His show will be part of the Weekend of the Attractive Theatre in Zvolen this Thursday, and tickets are still available for Pohoda in clubs concerts (that feature Donnyʼs concert) in Banská Bystrica and Košice. The event will also feature screening of the film Pohoda 2017 and an interview with the director of the film Lucia Kašová and the director of the festival Michal Kaščák. The afterparty will be taken care of by the Ministerstvo kultúry DJ set whose eclectic set made dance also the visitors of this yearʼs Pohoda. → read more

The guitar virtuoso with a fantastic voice, Anna Calvi, returns to Slovakia after her great performances at Pohoda and the Old Market Hall. The artist, who was nominated twice for the Mercury Prize and the BRIT Award and the winner of European Border Breakers Award, will perform on 12 November 2018 at 8:00 PM in Nová Cervnovka, Bratislava. → read more

Starting today, tickets for the Concert for the Attentive and White Crows Evening as well as combo tickets for both are on sale via our online shop. At the Concert for the Attentive taking place at Refinery Gallery on November 17th, Ho99o9, Pražský výběr, Jana Kirschner Komorne, Vec & Škrupo with the band, Dybbuk, Shortparis and Tittingur will be playing. The concert will be under one roof with the partner White Crows Evening (Večer bielych vrán) this year. It will include the awards ceremony to recognise civic bravery and also musical performances.  → read more

Eurosonic 2019 represents the biggest opportunity in our history to showcase Slovak and Czech music. At the beginning of this year, the organizers of the most prestigious European showcase festival decided that the next edition would focus on music from our region. More than 200 bands from our countries applied on Eurosonic’s website by the end of August 2018. 133 applications were sent from Slovakia. This was indeed a challenging task for the main festival booker as, based on what he said, this meant not only to go through a huge quantity of applications, but, most of all, to decide among exceptionally talented artists. Instead of 16 promised spots, Eurosonic decided to give a chance to 21 artists from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The following artists from Slovakia will be playing Groningen, The Netherlands, in January: Isama Zing, Autumnist, Katarína Máliková, Tittingur, Nvmeri, B-Complex, Our Stories, The Ills, Thisnis and Möbius. The Czech music scene will be represented by Hellwana, Thom Artway, Bohemian Cristal Instrument, Zabelov Group, Lazer Viking, Lenny, Circus Brothers, Manon Meurt, Floex + Tom Hodge, Pipes And Pints and Mydy Rabycad. → read more

From now on, you can book places for the Tent Inn hotel in all the versions in our shop. At the beginning of the Biskupice campsite you’ll find the Tent Inn and Tent Inn Black and Fresh tents which maintain pleasant weather conditions even during hot days. The new feature is that both tent types are offered in two-person and three-person versions. Families with children can book the three-person tents Tent Inn Black and Fresh at the Family Park, too. In addition, the security lockers Lock Inn are also available from today. Last year, all the Tent Inn products got sold out in record time despite the further increase in numbers. We therefore recommend people to hurry. → read more

This year's Concert for the Attentive will return to its former size by the capacity as well as by the stars who will perform. The American hardcore-hip-hop ensemble Ho99o9 that enchanted the 20th and 21st Pohoda will perform at the Refinery Gallery. Pražský výběr (Prague Selection) and Dybbuk - bands banned by the communists, or the Russian band Shortparis (whose performance described the boss of the Talinn Music Week as one of the most memorable concerts of the festival) will also come to Bratislava. Jana Kirschner with a string quartet, Vec with the band or one of the "club" discoveries of Pohoda 2017, Tittingur, playing the so-called maximal techno, will represent the home scene. The concert will be under one roof with the partner White Crows Evening (Večer bielych vrán) this year. It will include the awards ceremony to recognise civic bravery and also musical performances.   Tickets: Concert for the attentive + White crows evening (35 €) www.pohodafestival.sk/en/product/concert-for-the-attentive-white-crows-evening-17-11-2018 Concert for the attentive (25 €) www.pohodafestival.sk/en/product/concert-for-the-attentive-17-11-2018 White crows evening (12 €) www.pohodafestival.sk/en/product/white-crows-evening-17-11-2018  → read more

Only one week is left until the end of voting in the UK Festival Awards poll. Pohoda is again nominated for the Best Overseas Festival, together with festivals such as Roskilde, Tomorrowland, NOS Alive, Sziget, Open'er, and Exit. You can support us on this link https://goo.gl/ay1W2t Thank you :) → read more

The opening act of the Bastille concert will be one of the greatest discoveries of the British scene, Lewis Capaldi. Lewis began playing guitar when he was nine; three years later, he performed unofficially in Glasgow clubs. At the end of March 2017, he released his single “Bruises”, which instantly went viral in streaming services. He was the fastest to gain 25 million hearings on Spotify out of all artists without a publisher ever. In October last year, he released EP “Bloom” that featured the cooperation with Malay (producer of artists such as Frank Ocean, John Legend, and Alicia Keys); the BBC then included him in BBC Musicʼs Sound of 2018, as well as BBC Radioʼs 1 Brit List. Lewis also won the Scottish Alternative Music Awards and the Scottish Music Awards. Only 22 years old, this musician with an extraordinary voice composes songs at a running pace and wins fans all over the world even faster. We believe that he will speak to many new ones also on February 20 at the Refinery Gallery. → read more

Tickets for our festival and events organized by Pohoda appeared again in the offer of the "secondary ticketing" companies which are not sales partners of the Pohoda festival. For example, tickets for the Bastille concert are offered at a cost of 53–57€ (an offer on the VIAGOGO page, for example), which is almost 63% more than for the authentic tickets on our website (www.pohodafestival.sk/en/shop). As we can see written in small letters below the offer of the "secondary ticketing" companies, you might pay other significant fees for the ticket. In our testing purchase, we were to pay 154€  for two tickets, while the price of two tickets in our shop is €70, which means more than DOUBLE THE PRICE of the tickets (up to 120%). We also found different ticket options, which is nonsense, as there are only standing tickets for a single price. As an organizer of the festival, we cannot guarantee the authenticity, nor delivery of such purchased tickets from the "secondary ticketing" companies. You can find the list of our sellers here: www.pohodafestival.sk/en/shop. → read more