Jana Kirschner Komorne offers the selection of the two-decade work of our most successful singer in the beautiful arrangements of the Spectrum Quartett under the baton of Ján Kružliak. Patrik Marflák from Hudba.sk wrote in a review of this concert: "The goal is not to bring music and singing to the fans "as if from the CD" but to give them an authentic and unrepeatable experiences." These words were confirmed by Jana Kirschner at this year's Pohoda and we are sure that the fantastic performance is awaiting the attendees of the Concert for the Attentive. → read more

The legendary Pražský výběr will also perform at the Concert for the Attentive. The dissident past of the group formed around Michael Kocáb made them famous, however, they’ve collected the most distinct concert achievements in the recent years. In 2016 they played the biggest solo concert with the symphony in the sold out O2 Arena and they opened the Prague concert of the Rolling Stones in July this year. You can see them this Saturday in Refinery Gallery in Bratislava. → read more

American hard-core hiphop band Ho99o9, the legendary Pražský výběr, Dybbuk, or the Russian band Shortparis will perform at the Concert for the Attentive this Saturday. As for the home stars, Jana Kirschner with the string quartet, Noisecut, Vec & Škrupo with the band, or one of the "club" discoveries of Pohoda 2017, Tittingur, will present themselves. This time, the concert will take place under one roof with the partner White Crows Evening. It will include an awards ceremony to recognise civic bravery and also musical performances. See the concert programme below: → read more

American hip-hop group Ho99o9 will also perform at the Concert for the Attentive at Refinery Gallery. Their concerts offer a crazy selection of the "noisy" genres over the past 30 years and they belonged among the highlights of the 20th and 21st year of Pohoda. The Guardian or Rolling Stone journalists have also sung praises about the New Jersey duo and called their performance a high-octane show. Drowned in Sound went even further in using superlatives when they described their 2016 Pohoda concert with the following words: "But Band of the Festival, and authors of one the most enthralling, confrontational sets you’re ever like to see, are Ho99o9. They don’t just blow everyone else away; they unleash a hurricane of noise and madness that scoops up everyone in earshot and dumps them down, later, battered, bruised, but manically grinning from ear to ear." You can come and see with your own eyes this Saturday in Bratislava.   → read more

The opening act of the Anna Calvi concert in Nová Cvernovka on Monday will be B-Complex. Slovak producer and DJ became successful mainly thanks to the tracks released via Hospital Records. She has millions of song streams as well as countless live performances in Europe and beyond under her belt. Her Drum & Bass merges elements of liquid and heavier drum and bass components. In her music and activities, she supports tolerance and defends minorities. For example in her song “Past Lessons for the Future” where she sampled words by an important Czech actor and man Jan Werich. The track became “The Single of year 2016” in the Radio_Head Awards poll.  Tickets: www.pohodafestival.sk/en/product/anna-calvi-in-nova-cvernovka → read more

European Festival Awards launched voting in its annual survey. Pohoda is traditionally nominated in the Best Medium Sized Festival category. According to the organizers of the survey, these festivals also attract people by their specific genres or unique non-musical experiences. In the Newcomer of the Year category, we were pleased with the presence of excellent representatives of the heavier genres – Idles and Zeal & Ardor – who our festival attenders could have seen live, too. → read more

Tomorrow and on Wednesday, the discovery of Pohoda 2018, Donny Benét, will perform at the sold out concerts in Brno and Bratislava. His show will be part of the Weekend of the Attractive Theatre in Zvolen this Thursday, and tickets are still available for Pohoda in clubs concerts (that feature Donnyʼs concert) in Banská Bystrica and Košice. The event will also feature screening of the film Pohoda 2017 and an interview with the director of the film Lucia Kašová and the director of the festival Michal Kaščák. The afterparty will be taken care of by the Ministerstvo kultúry DJ set whose eclectic set made dance also the visitors of this yearʼs Pohoda. → read more

The guitar virtuoso with a fantastic voice, Anna Calvi, returns to Slovakia after her great performances at Pohoda and the Old Market Hall. The artist, who was nominated twice for the Mercury Prize and the BRIT Award and the winner of European Border Breakers Award, will perform on 12 November 2018 at 8:00 PM in Nová Cervnovka, Bratislava. → read more

Starting today, tickets for the Concert for the Attentive and White Crows Evening as well as combo tickets for both are on sale via our online shop. At the Concert for the Attentive taking place at Refinery Gallery on November 17th, Ho99o9, Pražský výběr, Jana Kirschner Komorne, Vec & Škrupo with the band, Dybbuk, Shortparis and Tittingur will be playing. The concert will be under one roof with the partner White Crows Evening (Večer bielych vrán) this year. It will include the awards ceremony to recognise civic bravery and also musical performances.  → read more

Eurosonic 2019 represents the biggest opportunity in our history to showcase Slovak and Czech music. At the beginning of this year, the organizers of the most prestigious European showcase festival decided that the next edition would focus on music from our region. More than 200 bands from our countries applied on Eurosonic’s website by the end of August 2018. 133 applications were sent from Slovakia. This was indeed a challenging task for the main festival booker as, based on what he said, this meant not only to go through a huge quantity of applications, but, most of all, to decide among exceptionally talented artists. Instead of 16 promised spots, Eurosonic decided to give a chance to 21 artists from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The following artists from Slovakia will be playing Groningen, The Netherlands, in January: Isama Zing, Autumnist, Katarína Máliková, Tittingur, Nvmeri, B-Complex, Our Stories, The Ills, Thisnis and Möbius. The Czech music scene will be represented by Hellwana, Thom Artway, Bohemian Cristal Instrument, Zabelov Group, Lazer Viking, Lenny, Circus Brothers, Manon Meurt, Floex + Tom Hodge, Pipes And Pints and Mydy Rabycad. → read more