Almost 120 artists, journalists, and music professionals from Slovakia will travel as partners of Eurosonic Noorderslag to Gröningen, Netherlands, to attend this biggest European showcase festival. The group is part of the focus of the festival on the music from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. ESNS finalized its line-up, which includes 319 names, a few days ago, with Czech and Slovak Focuses providing 11 artists from the Czech Republic and 10 from Slovakia. They will be given the opportunity to address with their performances 4,000 music professionals and representatives of 400 European festivals attending this cultural event of European significance every year. Our music will be talked about also in various conference panels. In addition to music, we will bring visual installations to the Netherlands from well-known Slovak artists as well as our own stage—Garáž stage—that will feature several Slovak and Czech artists. Today we launched www.czskfocus.com, where you can watch the story of the biggest presentation of our music abroad. For more information, check the facebook event of the focus.   → read more

Her songs are a frequent choice of film and series creators, and her albums regularly feature producers of the worldʼs biggest stars. “I follow rivers” indeed is a big hit, but as Consequence of Sound sees it, especially the latest album so sad so sexy brings “Lykke Liʼs superb reinvention” as an artist rehabilitating pop in its most diverse forms also in the ears of the more demanding listener. After many years of our efforts, this regular performer at the Glastonbury, Coachella, and Lollapalooza festivals will come also to Slovakia for the first time—Lykke Li will perform at Pohoda 2019 on Friday, July 12.  → read more

For the fifth time, we will bring great bands and interesting debates to the Night shelter of St. Vincent de Paul, as a part of the event titled Doma Dobre (Well at Home). The aim of the concerts is to point out the issue of living without home directly in a place that is often the only chance for over a thousand people to survive winter. The main star of this year will be the Dutch ska-rock band Bazzookas, who won the hearts of our attenders at Pohoda in 2016 and 2018 with their pop-up concerts in their school bus. They also lived up to their reputation and exceptional approach when they did not hesitate and agreed on performing at the Doma Dobre concert, refusing any royalty (with the addition, that everything that is collected from the volunteer admissions goes to the people in need). The concert will be opened by our most successful reggae group, Medial Banana, after then Katka Máliková with the band will perform. She dominated the 9th Radio_Head Awards and she represented Slovakia at Eurosonic at the beginning of the year. On Sunday, December 9th, in the low-threshold dormitory of St. Vincent de Paul, a discussion about homelessness will take place, featuring the founder of Depaul Slovakia, Juraj Barát, the current director Jozef Kákoš and the Mayor of Bratislava, Matúš Vallo. The event also includes exhibitions of photos and video projections, and a novelty will be a children's play area with an interactive performance "About a Boy Who Sought the Smell of Chocolate". The admission to the concert is free, just like the past years. However, you can help people without a home by your voluntary contribution. → read more

Music of Košice-based band Kolowrat has earned them titles such as “guitar melancholics” or “spokesmen of urban poetics”. Played next to their performance at Café Kušnierik this Pohoda as well an acoustic session. → read more

With the bad weather outside right now, here comes something comforting in the form of a video from Rodriguez concert in Stará Tržnica. The legendary singer-songwriter kicked off this year’s fall packed with concerts organized by Pohoda. Jakub Kratochvíl (Jablko.sk) prepared a short video capturing his performance for us. → read more

We have launched the gastro-vendors registration for Pohoda 2019. The first one to register this year was, again, Mrs. Fungáčová :) If you know of establishments the delicious food of which you would like to try at the next Pohode, let us know (and them) in the comment section below this post. Those interested can register on this link: www.pohodafestival.sk/gastro   → read more

Bazookas, Dutch ska-rock band that Pohoda visitors know very well, are coming to headline the 5th edition of Doma Dobre event. This fun crew of amazing musicians are a perfect object for photographers and filmmakers: just check the video within Pohoda acoustic session series or their latest aftermovie from this year’s Pohoda. Doma Dobre will be taking place in the low-threshold night shelter of St. Vincent de Paul in Bratislava on Sunday, December 9th.Admission is free, but you can help the homeless with your voluntary contribution. We will reveal other names and more information soon. → read more

"To sum up Pohoda without sounding melodramatic is tough. It is a festival full of the most pleasant little revelations, friendliest and open-minded people, eclectic and well structured at the same time. It’s got a lineup that is more diverse than the Lollapaloozas and Coachellas of the world put together." writes Gaurav Narula in the review for Rolling Stone India. You can read the full review here: http://rollingstoneindia.com/festival-report-slovakias-pohoda-festival-holy-grail/ → read more

Festival of the Future Awards – new awards organized by the Festicket company nominated Pohoda among the best five festivals in a truly interesting category of “Accommodation”. A varied range of the accommodation options that we constantly expand caught the attention of the awards organizers. The Black&Fresh tents (in two and three-place versions), spacious five-place tents in Fox and Chill Village, original solutions in the form of wooden Huts Trenčín and Huts Inovec were gradually added to the classic Tent Inns. We also greatly expanded the space for caravans. We still provide tent camps for free as one of the few European festivals. → read more

It is difficult to define the original line-up of St. Petersburg Shortparis by the genre. Their music is somewhere between dark electro, post-punk or noise; in the live version, in addition, combined with performative-theatrical acts. Mary Anne Hobbs, the DJ of BBC 6 played at Ment after them and said that Shortparis totally blew her mind. John Doran of The Quietus says they are the band you still dream of meeting once, but it rarely happens. In the number of superlatives he says that they are ambitious, bombastic, incredibly spectacular, exciting... Gigwise or Louderthanwar journalists have also praised them highly and we believe they will soon impress the Slovaks. → read more