For the second time in history, Pohoda goes to the European Festival Awards in the position of a festival with the highest number of nominations in Europe. Thanks to the attenders’ votes, Pohoda is, again, in the Top 10 of the Best Medium-Sized festivals on the old continent. Music professionals also shortlisted Pohoda in the categories of Best Line-up, Best Medium-Sized Festival, Best Promoter and The Health & Safety Innovation Award. Pohoda is leaving behind other Central European events – Hungarian Sziget and Polish Open’er or Dutch Lowlands – each with three nominations. Another Slovak festival, SHARPE, was nominated for the first time in the Best Small Festival category. → read more

Pengshui are a London trio of experienced musicians whose bulldozer riffs and aggressive rap blur lines between genres such as grime, hardcore and punk. Singer Illaman, bassist Fatty and drummer Pravva Prav have played with many stars of hip-hop (Foreign Beggars), RnB (Jorja Smith), oak and Drum&Bass music, but grew up on heavier foundations (Anthrax, Public Enemy, Napalm Death). It was the combination of rapping at a fast pace of 140bpm with a punk approach that brought them recognition on the British scene very quickly. → read more

Bas and his crazy bunch of great people and musicians, BAZZOOKAS, are already flying in from Holland. To perform will be also Saténové ruky and Lomnické Čháve. We are joining Bas in a cordial invitation to attend :-) See you tomorrow at 2:00 PM at the St. Vincent de Paul dormitory. → read more

A special socks delivery by Fusakle came to Urban Market yesterday. This is also connected with a special offer – if you buy two € 99 Pohoda passes at Urban Market, you will get new socks for free.  Urban Market → read more

The Gypsy Band Lomnické Čháve filled up the NAY dance house at Pohoda 2017 and left everyone feeling breathless. The editor in chief of the Music Festival Wizard portal described the concert as the best dance party of the year. A year later, they came to us with a documentary by Ladislav Kaboš entitled Kapela (The Band). A few hours afterwards, they started an energetic dance party on the main stage when they played during the Welcoming of the Sun ceremony with perhaps the greatest participation so far. In a few days, they will perform at Bashavel as part of the Roma Spirit event, which they also attend as a band nominated in the Culture category (for authentic and wild music production and presentation of the Roma culture). They are currently working on new songs, the first video and will also perform at the Doma Dobre concert. → read more

From today to Sunday we are at Urban Market Witner edition at Grösslingová secondary grammar school with our shop (you can find us on the ground floor in the classroom of Tercia A). We’re going to bring this year’s merch and printed festival passes to Pohoda. It’s going to be one of the last chances to buy printed tickets for 99 €, since the price increases to 109 € after the new year. You can buy e-tickets for 99 € until the end of the year. We can only guarantee the delivery of printed tickets before Christmas for orders made by midnight 16th December. → read more

Saténové Ruky are musically characterized by simple guitar riffs and rock and roll drives. They have released great albums Bozkávam and Tretí album and the new single "Gravitácia" and "37°C". What is great about their concert is the band members' apparent joy of what they do (confirmed at Pohoda in 2016, 2017 and 2018). As Vlado Janček said in an interview for Newsound: "The feeling of having one's own vinyl in their hand, or when other people than their colleagues from work show up at the concert, is really worth it." Therefore, you will definitely make Vlado happy if you come to their concert in St. Vincet de Paul night shelter. → read more

When we invited the Dutch band Bazzookas to the St. Vincet de Paul night shelter last year, did not hesitate for a second. This time around they themselves even asked if we were doing a concert for the homeless people again. The attenders of the sixth edition of Doma Dobre will thus see a fantastic show by this Dutch ska-rock band once again. → read more

The first delicacy from our western neighbours was added to the Pohoda 2020 line-up today. After more than twenty years, one of the most inventive Czech bands of the 1980s and 1990s will share the same stage with the most prominent lady of the Czech alternative scene, Iva Bittová. → read more

The first representative of world music at Pohoda 2020 is Asmâa Hamzaoui with the band Bnat Timbouktou. Asmâa is a rarity of the Moroccan music scene. She is the first female representative of the Gnawa genre (ritual music of sub-Saharan tribes which has the effect of provoking trance state) and a professional player of an instrument called Guemri (a type of three-string bass lute – her father was the master of playing the instrument). At the age of 16 she became the first woman to ever perform at the official Gnawa genre event as a Guemri player. Nowadays, she spreads this desert blues in a contagious manner together with her exclusively female band Bnat Timbouktou, whose members accompany their singing by playing metal castanets, so-called qraqebs.   → read more