Ultrazvuk, Čavalenky, Luvver, Isama Zing, Blanch, and Fvck Kvlt will perform this Friday, May 15, as part of Pohoda Day_FM. In addition to the concerts, the festival representatives will announce more reconfirmed names of the rescheduled 24th edition of Pohoda and the winners of the Pohoda Visual Art Contest. They will also reveal the first information about the Pohoda in the Air festival. The Slovak-Hungarian band Drť will present their debut album and release their first music video; and the Báseň 2020 (Poem 2020) contest will be announced. Director Lucia Kašová will talk about the documentary Orchestra from the Land of Silence (Orchester z krajiny ticha) of the Pohoda production about the first Afghan women's orchestra Zohra. The festival representatives will present a new ecological initiative of the greenest European festivals, the Green European Experience. In the afternoon, the current situation will be discussed by epidemiologists, and in the early evening on the Baláž & Hubinák show, people from behind the scenes of culture will discuss the topic of Culture in the (bad) times of the coronavirus. → read more

Together with three other festivals, Pohoda Festival is a part of the Green Europe Experience (GEX) project. Our festivals are known for supporting creativity. What we also need to take into account when implementing our ideas is the limited availability of resources our planet has to offer. We will be working on this project for three years. During this time, we will create, test and assess new environmental approaches with focus on sustainable festival food and scenography.  → read more

A quick reminder that the deadline for Pohoda Visual Art Contest is approaching – there is one week left for submitting your proposals. The new challenge concerns the online Pohoda in the Air festival, so in addition to the works for the airport area, we are also opening a special category for digital works. Proposals will be accepted until midnight next Wednesday, May 13, and the names of the winners will be announced on May 15 during Pohoda Deň_FM. You can enter the contest by filling in the form available at www.pohodafestival.sk/en/contest. → read more

Today we went been to Trenčín Airport to check the Pohoda in the Air venue. We will tell more in live broadcasting of Radio_FM during Pohoda Day_FM on Friday, 15th of May 2020.  Stay tuned ;) → read more

Another reconfirmed artist for Pohoda 2021 is the well-known techno DJ and producer Paula Temple. She released her debut Edge of Everything only after more than two decades on the scene, but according to reputable media, the waiting was definitely worth it. Resident Advisor wrote that this noisy, phantasmagoric techno sound specialist recorded the third best techno album of 2019. → read more

Electronic music fans can also look forward to the Floating Points Live concert at Pohoda 2021. London producer Sam Shepherd (who, by the way, has a Ph.D. in neuroscience) has been recording under this stage name since 2008.  → read more

We are preparing a symbolic edition of concert for Martina and Ján this Sunday, May 3, 2020. You will be able to watch it through live stream on the Facebook profile of Pohoda, Denník N, N-kultúra, Aktuality.sk, NOIZZ.sk, Hudba.sk, as well as on the profile of Konvergencie. Dalibor Kocian – Stroon and Jozef Lupták will play on the hill above the playground in Gregorovce from 6 pm. The works "Animal Physiopsychology" for vibraphone by Stroon, "Threnos" by John Travener, "Jewish Prayer" by Ernest Bloch and “Song without Words” by Jozef Lupták will be performed. The event will also include the installation "We are in it together", which will be realized by Michal Kačmár. Despite all the restrictions, we want to remember two young people whose fate has changed our country. The event will be presented by Valér Ondrej and Ján and Martina's parents will also speak during the concert. → read more

Paupière, the synthpop trio from Canadian Montreal will perform at Pohoda 2021. They enchanted our graphic artist and curator Tereza in Seoul, South Korea at the Zandari Festival. She said the following about the band: "Paupière was a pleasant surprise for me in a tiny club somewhere on one of Seoul's busy streets. The band was shy at first, their trembling and slight nervousness spread through the club. But it didn't take long and they absolutely enchanted us all with their sensuality... " → read more

Another addition to the Pohoda 2021 line-up is the Czech actor, singer and songwriter Tomáš Klus. From a junior European champion in modern pentathlon, he quickly turned into one of the most prominent figures in Czech popular music, as evidenced by hundreds of thousands of followers, millions of hearings and views of his songs, and awards such as Český slavík, Anděl, and Žebřík. Tomáš continues the Czech song writing tradition, while fans are especially attracted by catchy melodies and lyrics, in which he does sometimes comments on the state of society, e.g. in the songs “ZmrZlým”, “Pánu bohu do oken”, “JdeVoZem” or “Chátrám”. He dedicated the latter to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, and subsequently went on a tour around schools entitled “Memory of Songs”. Last year, he also called for a boycott of the Czech Prime Minister and the media he owned, and he also spoke out against him at A Million Moments for Democracy demonstrations. → read more

The Parisian band Acid Arab already stole our hearts away at Pohoda 2017. They play Eastern music on analogue rhythmic and bass boxes and create oriental acid, which is a fusion of cold techno, emotions and drama-charged orient. According to Pitchfork, their album Acid Arab Collections “is among the most enthusiastic collections of any sort of dance music to come out in recent memory.” The BBC presenter and DJ Gilles Petterson’s favourites released a great album Musique de France at the end of 2016 and last year they added a new release Jdid with the band's new member, keyboardist Kenzi Bourras. They will also present their new line-up and new music at the Trenčín airport in 2021. → read more