Pohoda 2022 to host Mezerg, an extremely entertaining and talented multi-instrumentalist, sound experimenter, and master of improvisation. This French music showman became one of the winners of Music Moves Europe 2022 yesterday, and a concise quote from the jury members on his behalf speaks for itself: “He is doing something crazy! Good show, good music, good at all!” Mezerg plays mainly dance and electronic music oscillating between funk, house, and acid techno. Instead of pre-recorded samples, you get to see live brilliantly performed instrumental pieces; we ourselves witnessed them at Eurosonic at the beginning of 2020. We danced through the whole show in the first row and left soaking in sweat. The dramaturgist of our club, Matwe, was also excited, and described the artist briefly and clearly: “Genius!” → read more

52 Hertz Whale were selected by the organisers of the prestigious showcase festival Eurosonic (ESNS) to play this year’s edition, and the band will perform online already tonight. The concert is free and you can watch it at this link: https://esns.nl/. You will also be able to see 52 Hertz Whale live at Pohoda 2022 :) → read more

Pohoda 2022 will host also Franco-American brothers Elliott and Virgile Arndt and their “anti-rock project” Faux Real. Their Faux Realism combines elements of post-punk, glam rock, and contemporary R&B with a unique sense of humour, boy band tropes, and a forward-thinking approach to modern pop culture. According to i-D magazine, they fuse the sound and aesthetic of disco with the chaos of a punk show. “Faux Real is a joy. The best quarantine karaoke! Paraphrasing their lyrics, thanks to them, we have faced the emotional compressions of the past two years with more ease,“ says about the Faux Real booking our graphics department, whose members Terezka and Gabko can no longer wait for their concert at the Trenčín airport. You will be able to see their concert thanks to our participation ESNS exchange program.   → read more

Another name of Pohoda 2022 is the Norwegian saxophonist and artist Bendik Giske. He is known for his great interconnection of music and movement and expressive use of physicality and vulnerability. While the sound of his debut Surrender can be described as stripped to the core: no overdubs, looping, or effects, just his body, breath, the saxophone and a resonant physical space, plus lots of microphones, this year’s album also has a significant share of electronic music, which is also the result of cooperation with producer André Bratten. → read more

If you enjoyed performances that took place on the radar at Pohoda on the Ground, we have great news for you. We will make its area accessible also to visitors to Pohoda 2022. The location will serve as a residential space for the Canadian art collective Crack Cloud. Its members will perform here on all festival days with audiovisual works created especially for our festival. → read more

Pohoda 2022 will also feature Chinese-American singer and producer of electronic music ZHU. In early 2014 he released the song "Faded" which was nominated for a Grammy and was among the top 10 most sold records in several countries. His debut album Generationwhy even made it to the very top of the American dance chart. The artist himself started in anonymity and still keeps a rather low profile. According to his loved ones, he wants to get people to focus primarily on his work this way and not on his personality.  → read more

Pohoda 2022 will also feature the Russian electro-hip-hop band Aigel. AIGEL are: Aigel Gaisina - a poet and singer from Kazan and Ilya Baramiya - a beatmaker from St.Petersburg famous for the last 20 years for participation in various electronic projects. In October, the UK magazine The Line of Best Fit praised their performance at Tallinn Music Week: "On stage, Gaisina’s charismatic presence holds the audience hostage as she sings, raps or speaks her poems in Russian and Tatar with conviction, honesty and pain so powerful that all language barriers seem to break down. But it would not give Baramiya the credit he deserves to overlook how his deep groove fills the whole room and gets the crowds moving." → read more

For the first time ever, Doma dobre will be a multi-day event. Already this Sunday, 12th December, you can watch the livestream from the St. Vincent de Paul dormitory featuring the performance of FVLCRVM. The stream session will also include a debate. The organisers will then share songs by artists recorded from the comfort of their beds on the Facebook pages of Pohoda and Depaul Slovensko at 7 pm each day until the 1th of January. This is to symbolically point out that even an “ordinary bed” is not a matter of course for many people. You will hear songs by Lola Marsh, Jana Kirschner, Bazzookas, Midi Lidi, Katarzia, Chiki liki tu-a, Tolstoys, Štefan Štec, Ventolin, Nina Kohoutova, Lasky, Nina Rosa, Fyasco, Timea, Raptor Koch, Kristin Lash & Jacob Grey, Lomnické Čháve, God & Eve, Quatro Emocione, Braňo Jobus, and 52 Hertz Whale. On Sunday, 26th December, we will return to the dormitory, where we will end the eighth edition of Doma dobre with carols performed by Muzička at 4 pm. → read more

Amazing! We have bursted with joy :)  Trenčín is the European Capital of Culture 2026. Congratulations to the Trenčín 2026 team, we are honoured to have worked with you guys, and we are looking forward to this amazing adventure :) → read more

“On December 1st, the official statement about Grape Festival’s relocation to Trenčín Airport was released. Festival representative Peter Slameň informed me about this decision during a meeting on November 11th and it was indeed a surprising step. A year ago, Pohoda and Grape team representatives held a meeting together where three festival representatives – Ján Trstenský, Juraj Podmanický and Peter Slameň – promised Grape would not be moving to Trenčín. Given our professional and personal relationships, there was no reason to suspect they wouldn’t keep their promise. → read more