After twelve years, a major name in the world of worldmusic, Dakha Brakha, will return from Ukraine to Pohoda 2022. They refer to their work as ethno-chaos. It is a mixture of native Ukrainian folk music with some African-styles, Arab, Bulgarian, and Hungarian motifs, and instruments from around the world. In combination with beautiful polyphony, specific rhythms and atypical, varied instrumentation, they create unique unexpected music. The band was formed as a musical ensemble at the Ukrainian avant-garde theatre Dakh and these roots have left its mark on the band performances and aesthetics oscillating between alternative theatre and folk/world music concerts.  → read more

At the turn of March and April over the past two years, we informed about moving Pohoda for a later date: now we have significantly better news. We have always relied on the opinion of experts, and also this year we continue to consult with our favourite experts, Mária Štefkovičová and Zuzana Krištúfková. Based on our discussion and the fact that almost all restrictions by the Public Health Authority in connection with the covid have been lifted, we are pleased to announce that we will meet at the Trenčín airport in the full Pohoda version. We are preparing the festival in a similar form as in 2019, the capacity remains limited to 30,000 visitors, and, of course, we are working on many new things and improvements. This news was also confirmed by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, which stated that capacity restrictions will not apply to summer festivals. Well, in just 99 days and after three long years, we will see each other again at our best at the Trenčín airport. → read more

The gates of Pohoda 2022 will open in exactly 100 days, and today we uploaded a playlist on Spotify with one hundred songs from our confirmed performers. It already has over seven hours of great music and we will be gradually adding more artists and their songs. → read more

Teachers can purchase their tickets for Pohoda with a €20 discount, starting today and available until Teachersʼ Day (midnight of 28th March). ITIC card holders can buy tickets to Pohoda for € 109 for the next two weeks. One tickets maximum per one card can be purchased at this link: www.pohodafestival.sk/en/shop/shop-tickets#3-day-ticket-teacher-s-day-itic-2022 → read more

An international charity concert-marathon in support of Ukraine Save Ukraine — #StopWar takes place on Sunday, March 27, in Warsaw at 5:30 p.m. CET (6:30 p.m. Kyiv). Such international stars as Fatboy Slim, Within Temptation, Bastille, Submotion Orchestra, BrainStorm, Beissoul & Einius, Salvador Sobral, Netta, Idina Menzel, IAMX, Gus Gus, Nino Katamadze and others will reach out to the world community. Ukraine will be presented by more than 20 artists, such as Monatik, Tina Karol, The HARDKISS, Okean Elzy, Go_A, Odyn v kanoe, alyona alyona, Melovin, Artem Pivovarov, Alina Pash, Antytila, Pianoбой, Kadnay, Latexfauna, Dakh Daughters, TVORCHI, NK and others. Also, a well-known and respected around the world volunteers, civic activists, athletes and artists will appeal to the multimillion audience to support Ukraine. → read more

The South African rapper, actress and fashion icon Sho Madjozi was supposed to perform at Pohoda 2019; finally her premiere at our festival will be in a little over a hundred days. Forbes ranked her among the 30 most influential young people under 30 in the African continent, and her ode to the African aesthetic identity was praised by fashion magazines Elle and Vogue. At the end of summer 2018, she caught everybody’s attention with her great show at the Afro Punk Festival in Brooklyn, and in December she performed with YCEE in Central Park at the Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 (she shared the stage with artists like Beyoncé, Chris Martin, Eddie Vedder and Pharrell Williams). At the same time, she released her debut album Limpopo Champions League, for which she won the Best International Artist Award at the American BET Awards and was awarded at home as the Best New Internatiobal Act of the Year. She won two more awards at the South African Music Awards for the 2020 mixtape What A Life. She is currently working on a new album, and you will be able to hear new songs from it at the Trenčín airport. → read more

The album Nemoderný chalan (the Old-fashioned boy), which was produced by Laco Lučenič and recorded by Meky Žbirka with their band Limit in 1984, seemed like a miracle. The music, arrangements, lyrics, Miro’s singing, cover, graphics, video clips... Everything worked out perfectly, the hitherto popular pop singer started to appeal also to other people outside the mainstream. The record showed the importance of production in music; in this respect it was a ground-breaking work in the history of the Slovak pop music. This daring act was followed by two other albums—Chlapec z ulice and Zlomky poznania. Songs from these albums will open Pohoda 2022 at a special concert, which will be a celebration of Miro Žbirka’s work.  → read more

Also the jazz-soul duo Lash & Gray will perfrom at Pohoda 2022. This Slovak duo got together at the conservatory in Prague. They are among the largest Slovak talents with a great export potential, which is proved by the fact that they are represented by the renowned Austrian agency Bella Concerts. The agency likens Kristína Mihaľová’s velvety singing to Billie Holiday and Jakub Šedivý’s guitar performances to another legend, Wes Montgomery. Oliver Rehák described them aptly: they are in their twenties and make beautiful and musically well-honed songs. → read more

In the early 70s, Joseph Saddle was living in the South Bronx where he studied to become an electrotechnician as his mother insisted. His father was a passionate vinyl collector and on the other hand insisted, that his son wouldn't touch his records without his consent. Joseph obeyed his mother, but not his father. This is the beginning of the story about the legend of the currently dominant musical genre - hip-hop. His career under the name Grandmaster Flash started at neighbours' parties in the Bronx. While other DJs just played their favourite tracks, he on the other hand used to creatively manipulate them. This way he produced a unique performance and de-facto new music. He is considered to be father of the Quick Mix Theory, Clock Theory and DJ techniques such as back-spin, double-back, back-door or punch phrasing and also an artist who strongly improved scratching. This way he laid the foundation of DJ-ing as we know it today. Later, various MCs joined his beats, which led to the foundation of the band Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. They became famous mostly by live performances, but also by hits such as "The Message", which indicated the socially engaged future of hip-hop music, or “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel” which is a perfect demonstration of Flash' DJ virtuosity. → read more

Another name of Pohoda 2022 is a viral hip-hop sensation, born in Bronx, formed by the Atlanta underground scene—rapper 645AR. At the turn of 2019 and 2020, he rocketed with tracks such as Bible And A K, 4 Da Trap, and Yoga, and soon he started collaborations with such names as FKA twigs, Lil Tracy, and Tyga. → read more