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Pohoda 2016 review at Drowned in Sound
From the very first note, Ivan Kozolka can’t help himself. He knows. What starts as a gentle bobbing becomes more and more demented; limbs flailing, jerking from side to side, he’s like a hyperactive child who’s overdosed on Haribo, a manic grin plastered across his face. Pretty soon,…
Pohoda 2016: Feedback of foreign media and music professionals
Vic Galloway – BBC Scotlandʼs journalist for CLASH Magazine Pohoda can celebrate as the sparkling jewel in the festival crown of Central European festivals. If you're looking for something unique and of real quality, I'd highly recommend it. Here are 10 of my highlights from this yearʼs…
Picnic at Kingswood garden
Visitors who will be collecting Kingswood cider stamps can get a present in the form of handy hats or fan. On Saturday, Picnic Happy hour is going to take place between 11 AM and 12 PM. If you buy 5 ciders, you'll get a picnic basket full of goodies. Cider is a refreshing, mildly alcoholic drink…
Hraj noha a hrá Banda
There are very few bands for which the term world music is as fitting as for Banda. The band takes inspiration from Slovak traditional music, but also from genres such as blues, jazz, beat, pop, old music and music of other nations (Balkan, Celtic, Slavic, African and Latin American). Slovak folk songs…
Visegrad club: Saturday
DETEKM (SK) The pseudonym DETEKM hides Maroš Sabo, a tireless representative of Trenčín electronic music scene. Many may know him under the pseudonym Abnormal which is his alter ego oriented more towards ambient music. However, he is coming to Pohoda with the project DETEKM,…
The Red Bull Music Academy Stage for the first time at Pohoda 2016
The stage will feature 15 artists representing the current sound of the Academy. We can look forward to performances of artists playing different genres. The English producer Throwing Snow supported the tour of Bonobo, as well as the Thom Yorkeʼs (Radiohead) project Atoms for Peace. The London BBC Radio1…
Shostakovich / Testimony - Roth, Lupták, and String Quartet
“When it comes to musical influences, I think I was most influenced by Jewish folk music. It may look cheerfully, but in fact it is deeply tragic. It is almost always laughter through tears. Jews were tormented for so long that they learned to hide their despair. Thus, they express it in dance…
Trenčín Chamber Orchestra
Trenčín Chamber Orchestra continued the over three hundred year tradition of rich musical life in the area. In 26 years of its existence, they have given a number of concerts in Slovak towns and abroad (Sweden, France, Switzerland...). Very important for the direction of orchestra is the cooperation…
Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava
JFO Radio Orchestra, the predecessor of Janáček Philharmonic, was formed already at the end of the twenties of the last century. The body cooperated with composers and songwriters such as Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Hindemith, as well as top musicians and singers such as A. Navarra, J. Suk, J.…
Children days at Pohoda 2016: workshops
Montessori club Trenčín at Pohoda 2016 The philosophy of Montessori education is based on respecting developmental stages of a child. A child is always interested only in a certain range of activities, therefore it is important to respect these periods, as it is then when a child is very interested…