Five exceptional home connections at Pohoda 2018
Noisecut and Nora Ibsenová, Billy Barman and the girls form SĽUK, Katarzia (project Antigona) together with Jonatán Pastričák will play in Trenčín. The Czechoslovak Philharmonic will play a concert commemorating the centennial of the joint republic and The Slovak Chamber Orchestra under the leadership of Ewald Danel will play the Biblical songs by Antonín Dvořák and other pieces. Many choirs from the whole of Slovakia will join them in an untraditional way. The concert will open the 22nd year of Pohoda and will be dedicated to Ján Kuciak and hic fiancé Martina Kušnírová.
16. May 2018
In October it will be 100 years from the union of Czechia and Slovakia, and although we have been existing in independent countries for a quarter century, the cultural sharing and cooperation of artists were not interrupted by the borders. At Pohoda we will be reminded of this anniversary by a concert of The Czechoslovak Philharmonic, a unique connection of the philharmonics of both countries. The concert will commemorate Marián Varga. The legendary band Collegium Musicum will join the orchestra to play his Musica Concertante. The Czech work will be represented by the pieces of Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana. The Slovak Chamber Orchestra, under the leadership of Edwald Danela, will play the Biblical songs by Antonín Dvořák and other pieces. Many choirs from the whole Slovakia will join them in an untraditional way. The concert will open the 22nd year of Pohoda and will be dedicated to Ján Kuciak and hic fiancé Martina Kušnírová.
Košice based band Puding Pani Elvisovej will also play at Pohoda. In 2015 they released their newest album up to now, Tektonická platňa, and last year they recorded a new song called “Pod paplón”. They are currently on an intensive concert tour in Slovakia and Czechia and at 22nd Pohoda you can yet again see why they have three “radioheads” for the best concert band.
ALTERNATIVA SCENE IN THE CLUB
The events in our Club will be opened by Polish Coals who will be followed by an experimental duo Jack Jack. Afterwards, as a part of Goethe-Nacht, great names of alternative German scene will be introduced – DŌMU, Byetone, the band Cuntroaches and an acid techno live-act The Exaltics. Friday, curated by Martin Kaščák, will be closed by the local producers Kabal and Achab. It was Kabal together with Jonatán Pastirčák who created varied programme for Saturday. BZLGR, Coucou Chloe and Ross From Friends from Britain, French rapper KillASon, Gosheven from Hungary, home mentalists 0n0, Ink Midget and Italian-Slovak project Unprofessional + Palmovka will perform as a part of the programme.
ECOLOGY
The victory at European Festival Awards in the category Green Operations leads us to react by further eco-news. A temporary charging station will be installed in the parking lot for the owners of electric cars. We will increase the proportion of energy taken from the landline network thanks to the extension of the temporary points of supply. We will entirely eliminate disposable plastic cups at the festival and we will do so by offering popular reusable cups also in the versions for drinks served in smaller amounts (lemonade, wine, sparkling wine).
The biggest change will be in handling the waste. Except of the increased number of posts with rubbish bins, collection point will be added. The trash will be separated there by trained personnel. Bio trash, including the dishes and cutlery from biodegradable material will be subsequently processed right at the place. The Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of the Comenius University in Bratislava collaborates with us on this project. As a part of their semestral project, the students of the faculty gained 180 volunteers – FSESeparators – for the collections points at Pohoda 2018. Thanks to the quality improvement of the separation process, a part of waste will become a raw material, by which we minimize the amount of waste that goes to the landfill. To fulfil this goal we inevitably need the help of the most important ones – our attenders.
TRANSPORTATION
We started to sell the tickets as a part of Pohoda suburban transportation to Trenčianske Teplice. A bus will take those interested up to the entrance for pedestrians (GATE B) every festival day. After the programme at the main stages is over, they will be transported back right from the front of the main stage. We will again dispatch a festival express train from two biggest cities, Bratislava and Košice. The sale of the tickets for these trains will start tomorrow (Thursday May 17th).
COMMUNICATION
Pohoda adds a profile on another social network – we are opening a community in messenger Viber. Except for news, interesting facts and competitions you can also get a pack of “Pohoda” stickers for 2018 that can be used to communicate with your friends. Many of them contain abbreviations of the festival itself as, for example, the meeting points or the emoticons expressing the satisfaction with the concert and so on.
A novelty in the field of communication is also a rewarding system for our regular attenders who spread the good name of the festival and they are often the reason why their friends attend the festival for the first time. We can reward them from now on thanks to the Pohoda Ambassador Programme. Every ambassador has their own code and profile assigned at our webpage. An ambassador can exchange the obtained “sunflowers” in our shop for rewards such as socks, t-shirts and Pohoda tickets.
POHODA F(LOVERS)
A big change will take please in the heart of our site where we are not able to plant the flower meadow due to further development of the airport. However, we think that flowers are an inseparable part of the festival. That is one of the reasons we started with the initiative Pohoda F(Lovers). We asked our attenders to bring their own flowers to the airport. Sunflowers were also planted in our office by the authors of the idea, Michal Sládek and Monika Matiašovská. Everybody can share their plant growing success with us in the event Pohoda F(Lovers):
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After yesterday’s meeting of the committee of Pohoda Visual Art Contest we know the winning projects. The first is the work Ján and Martina at Pohoda who were attenders of our festivals. The installations will map their (non)presence at the festival. The second one is Good Feelings (with the subheading kindergarten). The kindergarten is a drawn structure of lines and numbers that you have to jump through on one foot in order to reach the finish line. The usual number of parts of the playing field 8 – 12 will be expanded to more than 9000 at Pohoda, which is the whole area of the concrete surface of the festival that will be used for the kindergarten.
WHEN WILL THE MOST FAMOUS NAMES PERFORM?
The opening day of 22nd Pohoda will belong to the legends, when Ziggy Marley and Chemical Brothers will perform on the main stage. On another stage home band Polemic will celebrate their 30 years of playing; Billy Barman and the girls from SĽUK will perform there as well. On Friday, it will be the turn of the virtuosos– the popularizer of jazz Jamie Cullum and the eccentric singer and guitarist St. Vincent. Except for them the incoming generation of the island guitar music Glass Animals and Blossoms will play on the main stage. A strong representation of the islands will be completed by Jessie Ware, Ride and Fink. Friday will also belong to the Norwegian singer with an ethereal voice Aurora, American reggae stars SOJA, rapper Danny Brown and fans of electronic music will be pleased by the performance of Helena Hauff in the biggest tent.
On Saturday, the American stars with their incredible stories will take control of the big stages – Rodriguez, the singer-songwriter of the Academy Award-winning document Searching for Sugarman and a singer with an unmistakable voice LP. Except for them one of the most famous present-day Swedish bands – Little Dragons – will play as well or the band Everything Everything (right now nominated in two categories for Ivor Novello Awards). International dramaturgy is completed by German Bukahara, Birton Charlie Winston, American Calexico, Icelandic band Gus Gus and also by our home star Jana Kirschner with string quartet. On Saturday, a particularly powerful programme is prepared for the festival amphitheatre where perhaps the most famous string quartet in the world, Kronos Quartet, will perform. The combination of afrobeat and free-jazz will be performed by tUnE-yArDs and a darker concert will be offered by Zeal & Ardor. The House of Dance will be moved by Sophie, Onuka, La Femme and rap by the bands Dälek, Reykjavikurdaetur or the local legend Trosky.
Currently there are almost 100 names form 25 countries confirmed; many more will be added. Very soon we will announce news regarding Visual Stage, Family Park, debating tents, theatre, dance, as well as the comfort and services of Pohoda 2018.
We are looking forward to seeing you in 50 days at 22nd year of Pohoda Festival
Until then you can get the idea of its atmosphere by watching the aftermovie:
...or by watching Documentary Pohoda 2017 of the director Lucia Kašová: