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

“A buddy from Prešov, hard-worker, released an album at the end of the year, which made him more noticed. Another rapping punk.”, says the Garáž curator of another name of his choice. Dušan Vlk will bring LO-FI and trap influenced by a pinch of punk atmosphere to the Garáž stage. In December came out his debut ASTHMABOY and it was introduced to public at the Kulturák club in Bratislava. The Generácia rapu portal described the album: “Duški likes Kulturák, Kulturák likes Duški and you could feel that. Most of the songs on his Asthmaboy album are as if they were created for these premises, so it’s no wonder that everything worked out exactly as it should.”  → read more

“Youngsters from Trnava. All are from 15 to 20 years old. They are excited, they mean it deadly serious, and they do it well. The enthusiasm and all this will cause so much on the Slovak scene also in future.” This is how band Hyperpunk was presented to us by Denis Bango, who picked them for Saturday’s line-up in Garáž. → read more