With a bit more than two weeks left until Trenčín’s Pohoda opens its gates again after three long years, we have revealed the festival line-up by days and stages. Pohoda will be celebrating 25 years of existence with more than 130 concerts and artists from all around the world, including stars such as Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Flume, Sigrid or The Libertines. The program features several special projects such as the celebration of Meky Žbirka’s work – Nemoderný chalan where band Midi Lidi meets Laco Lučenič as well as the concert for Milan Lasica with Bratislava Hot Serenaders and Bolo nás jedenásť. Of all countries, the list of names is, apart from Slovakia, dominated by artists from the UK (17) and the US (13). → read more

Bianca Macková aka Blanch will be playing at Pohoda as well. She is coming with the band consisting of Dominik Špuler, Marek Votruba and Jakub Kolesár. Together with band Luvver, they received a grant for music production at Radio_Head Awards back in 2019. It seems the grant was put to good use given their debut Delusion was later nominated in the category of “Debut of the Year” at the 2019 Radio_Head Awards. The recording is a collection of unconventional compositions and imaginative indie-folk sounds. Last year, Blanch released an album titled Veracity, which earned the band a comparison to “Slovakian Cocteau Twins” by Juraj Čurný. Her songs have an alternative-pop sound with elements of melancholia, but she is no stranger to the sound of trap or hip-hop either. Apart from many collabs with the likes of WEN or YOO, for example, she recorded the album Indigo Waters together with rapper and producer Duch last year. → read more

Šukovci from Čierny Balog will be closing the Café Kušnierik program at Pohoda. The band formed around the legendary first violinist Julo Bartoš “Šuko” and became legendary itself thanks to its zeal – their energy will top Čad and Rozpor combined: they usually start playing on their way to the stage and continue off-stage long after the gig. They can shine at folklore festivals in Východná or Detva, Slovak Alternative Summer as well as Pohoda. A perfect band for Saturday night. → read more

Our website didn't work for a short time due to many requests. The problem is already solved now and our website is fully available again. You can buy tickets and other products here: www.pohodafestival.sk/en/shop. Thank you for your huge interest. There are still less than 3000 tickets available for sale.  Just a reminder,  tomorrow we will announce the line-up of Pohoda 2022 by days and stages We will reveal more at nine am in the Ráno na eFeMku radio programme. → read more

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