A month ago, Pohoda released the second studio album of band Drť, entitled Minister, and they will play it and officially introduce the new vinyl at the Trenčín Airport in just over two weeks. Following the interview of the former head of ŠTB Alojz Lorenzo, who became the model of the first album Puntičkár (2020), the composer Miroslav Tóth and the lyricist Marek Kundlák used controversial material again for the second album of the band Drť. This time, the lyrics of the songs come from a video recording of Ján Počiatek’s private conversation with Dobroslav Trnka, which was secretly made by “businessman” Marián Kočner. → read more

We are obviously celebrating the 25 years of Pohoda at the Trenčín Airport in large numbers. Thank you for your huge interest in tickets, as well as other merch from our shop. We currently have less than 3,000 tickets for Pohoda 2022 left for sale. We are looking forward to seeing you in 17 days. → read more

Pohoda 2022 will again have the legendary dance show Street Dance Battle, whose dramaturgy is being put together by Otec Mirec. Top dance groups fight for the favour of audience in our largest arena. DJ Maikl Knight, a lover of house music who allegedly has a great sense of hard kicks and vibrating hi-hats and brings sound flavours ranging from England to South America to his selection, will take care of the musical background. → read more

Adam Kvasnica will take care of Friday’s final night selection at the NAY Dance House. His mixes already have over a hundred thousand followers on the Mixcloud. Adam is an avid vinyl collector; his set will be performed in the sounds of rare funk and disco, as well as cumbia, salsa, and Latin jazz as well as the music of Africa, Lebanon, and Brazil. By the way, Adam is also the head and dramaturge of Rádio Piešťany and as he comments on his set: “My mostly selector dance set will be a cross-section of rare records from my collection.” → read more

For years we have been trying to eliminate diesel consumption in generators at the airport. After the reconstruction of the main transformer station in the “pink building” at the airport, in cooperation with ZSE, we performed wiring for temporary transformer stations, and there will be four stations this year. From them, the distribution lines lead to distribution boxes, so we managed to obtain most of the energy in a much more environmentally friendly way. Today at the airport, land surveyor and drummer Ľuboš Mikota (also Mejla Hlavsa from Plastic people of The Universe and Ľubo Dzúrik from CHVM fell under the spell of land surveying) marked out locations for these transformer stations so that the installation could begin. We are sending a lot of energy from the airport to everyone... :) → read more

Pohoda will be opened and closed by artists from Ukraine. Band DakhaBrakha will play before Nick Cave on Thursday, and soloists of the Music and Drama Ensemble of Taras Ševčenko from Bratislava will take care of Sunday’s Welcoming the Sun. The ensemble, which preserves the cultural traditions of the Ukrainian minority in Slovakia, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Together with professional musicians, they recently started the formation “Počujš, brat môj”; they released a CD of Ukrainian folk songs arranged by Ľubica Čekovská under this name and their performance at the Trenčín Airport will build on it. → read more

Our friends from Ukraine will take care also of part of the programme in the Family Park. Dance school students from Kiev and Kharkiv will perform various ballet variations in the first half of the programme. Musical accompaniment will be provided by accompanisť Viera Yarify and flutist Danylo Shtanov. → read more

Saturday night’s party at the NAY Dance House, after the concert of Polemic and Medial Banana, will be hosted by the duo Simple Sample & Pokyman (Ghetto Youths Sound) until Welcoming the Sun. In a varied set, they will mix reggae, dancehall, afro-beats, and moombahton, all flavoured with their own remixes, mashups, and dubplates. → read more

Today, the many unique projects and premieres at Pohoda 2022 grow by CELLOSEUM. The ensemble consisting of eight top cellists will perform works from Mirek Krajči’s eponymous recording in the concert premiere. The album was released on ejj-art and all its parts were recorded by Eugen Prochác (featuring Ján Slávik as a guest in one track). The “live” formation consists of eight outstanding Slovak artists who are concert artists, members of leading chamber ensembles, symphony orchestras, teachers, and organisers of music events. → read more

“One of the best but not so much known yet ug rappers in Slovakia. From Košice. And his entire CLUB 17 crew are all strict contemporary rappers who don’t speak BS. Young boys, all in their twenties.” Denis Bango described this way the Oskar and Club 17 project. The young rapper Oskar is the creator of the term East Coast in the Slovak music scene. In 2020, he released his debut Nonsense, which transforms his view of everyday reality into his poetry (as commented on by Hudba.sk) He is currently working on the project “East Coast pt. II”, with which plans to change the view of the Czecho-Slovak audience on rap culture in eastern Slovakia. At Pohoda, he, Rikko, and Ower will present their new project, as well as new stuff and tracks that the audience is already familiar with. → read more