Kids park has more and more visitors every year and this fact is also reflected in the ever more varied programme. The enclosed area with a large circus tent and other smaller tents provide comfort, entertainment, and safety for the youngest visitors of the festival. → read more

Transmusic Comp. brings together different art forms and genres of music, studied and self- learned musicians, visual artists, dancers, performers, and authors of audiovisual projects. The group was founded in the mid-80s around the figures of conceptual art, such as Milan Adamčiak, Peter Machajdík, Martin Burlas, Michal Murin, and Peter Horváth. → read more

Thanks to the nomination for the five best festivals in the world in 2014, Bažant Pohoda was placed among the events Tomorrowland, Latitude, Rock Werchter, and Primavera Sound. → read more

Daniel Hevier is meeting children across the country on his Hevi Tour 60. During the holidays, he will also visit Bažant Pohoda with the HEVI DUBI KOMIKS BAND that plays and sings his lyrics. → read more

It is easy to explain scientific theories of Stephen Hawking to astrophysics students, but not to a child. And who else should tell the history of the universe to children if not their peers? These were the challenges that the Slovak composer Marek Piaček and librettist Martin Ondriška addressed in their opera “Stručné dejiny vesmíru” (A Brief History of the Universe). → read more

Balkanian beats, Gypsy music, Mexican cumbia, and Caribbean reggae. All these rhythms packed in unique sets by Slovak DJs – Roman Lalik and Jakub Kmosena, who call themselves Malalata. → read more

A world-known drummer and percussionist, Pat Mastelotto (from the band King Crimson and the studio musician for The Sugarcubes, Hall & Oates, and The Rembrandts), top Italian trumpeter Paolo Raineri (Stefano Battaglia, Junkfood), and our notoriously famous David Kollar – that’s the KoMaRa trio. → read more

What do the songs “Branči Kováč” by Vec, “Cigánska” by Billy Barman, and “Ako najlepšie viem” from Para sound like in a swing arrangement? You can come and hear that from our main stage on Friday at noon, as they will be played by the student big band Swingless Jazz Ensemble. → read more

On Saturday at noon, the Bažant Stage will open with the performance of Sendreiovci, the 35-member State Chamber Orchestra in Žilina, and a childrenʼs vocal ensemble Čercheňora. → read more

The music of not very many Slovak bands is so closely linked to summer and great summer parties outside as the music of Le Payaco. → read more