Rudo Danihel aka Čavalenky, will also perform at Pohoda on the Ground on Saturday, July 10th. The half-Roma artist uses the Záhorie dialect in his work, talking about rough street life, racism, gambling, drugs, indebtedness, and subsequent seizures. In March 2020, he released his debut album Stoka Rap, which Jakub Šíma from Fullmoon named one of the best recordings of the year. This phenomenon makes you believe every words he says, not pretending anything: everything is based on real grounds and brings this with an original expression, great flow, and excellent background. → read more

They formed virtually by chance and relatively recently, but they already have four Grammy nominations, a euphoric hit with more than a hundred million views on YouTube and, as NME wrote, they gradually made their journey from busking on street corners to becoming one of the USA’s most beloved new bands. They have performed in perhaps every well-known television show, sold out multiple tours across North America and Europe, thanks to a massive fanbase now known as the Puma Pack, and we are pleased that Black Pumas will play their mix of psychedelic soul and R&B also at Trenčín Airport in early July 2022. → read more

Belarusian singer and producer Mustelide will also perform at Pohoda on the Ground. Recently based in Berlin she mixes various styles of electronic and avant-pop music. Mustelide creates a world of peculiar sounds, using environmental samples collected from all over the world, analogue synthesizers, drum machines and her voice.  → read more

To take care of the final party on each day of Pohoda on the Ground will be DJ Ramzy Al Spinoza & MC Safaa Hathot. This exceptional Jewish-Arab duo will symbolically play their sets in the premises of the decommissioned military radar. This area will be open to visitors for the first time ever. → read more

Band Varkocs was formed in 2018 as a special project around Erik Turtev, a virtuoso mouth harp player. Since their formation, the band have excelled in their unconventional approach and “rowdy folk” style. They play old pagan Slavic and Hungarian acoustic folk instruments and their aim is to collect songs for mouth harp, as they are translated in various ethnic groups living in Slovakia. Their repertoire is based on the songs that the members learned from old folks in villages and found in archives. → read more

For the fifth year in a row, band Veľká Potreba has been relentlessly pushing forward its intention to vent the frustration of the corporate stereotype and the fulfillment of everyday needs; the band also does not shy away from the topics of relationships and emotions. Their last year's debut “V rohu” was well received by fans of gerontopunk protestsongs; in the meantime, the members of Veľká Potreba have managed to prepare material for a new album, which they are looking to release this autumn and parts of which will be played also for visitors of Pohoda on the Ground. → read more

I Am Planet is the project of Slovak composer Patrik Korinok. He combines contemporary classical music with elements of minimalism and motifs strongly inspired by nature. His debut Silene Stenophylla was ranked among the best albums of 2014 on Beehy.pe and Arcticdrones. Pravda introduced On The Way To Antarctica (2016) with the headline: This is what pretty music sounds like. Two years later, he released Natura Resonat on Deadred Records. As musicserver.cz writes: “It is an intense confession about the state of nature, its echoes in us and its fluttering moods.” On his latest record, Záznamy ticha, he turns for the first time to the inner man, to the problem of information smog, to the natural need for silence in the contemporary context after years of searching for archetypes in nature or experimenting with sacred sound. He uses silence as a full part of the composition on the recording, as well as during the concert version.   → read more

We will have also Raptor Koch and the band to perform at Pohoda on the Ground. Last year, he released an excellent fiftieth album called “Prvý album” (The First Album), with which he also introduced at Pohoda in the Air. He is currently preparing four more albums, and a recording called “Druhý album” (The Second Album) is expected to be released first.   → read more

They are young, they study music composition and they like contemporary classical music, jazz, and artpop. God and Eve consists of Eva Sajanová and Richard Grimm (Max Bazowski, Raptor Koch, Boh Vajec). Eva composes music, writes lyrics, and records the first versions of songs; Richard arranges/produces the songs and together they bring them to their final form. Their debut EP called The Creation was released in February 2021 under the label of Slnko Records. They have received praise from Kevin Cole of the American radio station KEXP and Štepán Pařízek of Alterecho, while the latter wrote about the EP: “The playfulness and individuality, which are the wings of this band, freely take them to being admired, and I recommend hanging on their feathers and getting carried away with them.” At Pohoda on the Ground, they will premiere in a full concert line-up, when the duo will be joined by Jakub Kačic on bass guitar, Marek Buranovský on guitar, and Tomáš Hríbik on drums. → read more

Another confirmed name for Pohoda on the Ground festival is the British-Korean duo Wooze. The band describe themselves as pansori for the 21st century (a traditional Korean music genre) or baroque'n'roll. Our graphic designer and curator Tereza Maco saw Wooze live in Soul and said about them the following: "If the band DEVO was called futuristic art rock, then Wooze is metamodernist pansori, all nice and sweaty in the K-pop raincoat ".  → read more