A musical love at first sound: that’s how we could describe the relationship between Pohoda, its visitors and the band from Israel, Lola Marsh. As an unknown band, they played our main stage during their Slovak premiere in 2014. The chemistry worked right away. A tour, several solo concerts as well as other gigs at Pohoda followed. A year ago, they played their biggest show in the Refinery Gallery with a special addition to their setlist: an unforgettable cover version of “Čerešne” that 1,500 deeply moved people sang along with Yael. Since their premiere, Lola Marsh played Slovakia every single year and, this time, it won’t be otherwise. On Thursday evening, they will open the program on Pohoda 2019’s main stage. → read more

During his premiere in Slovakia, he performed solo. During his fall tour, he was accompanied by his brother Dan playing saxophone and the next Pohoda will see him with his band as part of the European premiere of The Donny Benét Show Band. The discovery of Pohoda 2018, Donny Benét, ended his fourth tour on the old continent just yesterday and now returns home with a plan to work on his new album. During his shows, security guys, photographers, stage managers as well as bartenders were dancing. People put on glittery garments their parents used to wear and many items ended up on stage under Donny Benét’s feet. His Slovak fan club currently has more than 500 members. The majority attended one of his four amazing fall shows and the outcome is this cool after movie. Apart from the brilliant moments captured during his tour in Slovakia, you will also learn how a jazzman became the Donny Benét phenomenon. → read more

Today in the Trenčín hospital, our Monika brought her first-born son, Teodor Matiašovský, into the world with the assistance of Peter Kaščák. Everything was clear on July 12, 2017, when in a table football tournament even the best champs didn’t stand a chance against the team called Love from Pezinok (formed by Monika Satková and Andrej Matiašovský). The crowd were chanting "Love from Pezinok" but then turned it into shouting "That's fate!" very lively. Ten months later, they first sealed their love in Rača and ten more months later they materialized it in Trenčín. Monika and Andrej, we warmly congratulate you and welcome Teodor. → read more

Pohoda 2019 will feature also the British MC/rapper and the grime star, Skepta. He and his brother Jamie (Jme) founded collective and label Boy Better Know. They also collaborated on the latest album, Konnichiwa, for which he was awarded the Mercury Prize (leaving behind Radiohead and David Bowie), and Apple Music editors labelled it the album of the year 2016. In recent years he has collaborated with Dreake and Pharell Williams, and he also features on A$AP Rockyʼs hit “Praise the Lord (Da Shine)”. At the ranker.com portal, Skepta is on the top of The Best British Rappers of All Time and The Best Grime Artists charts. He will show the reason why to the visitors of Pohoda 2019 on Thursday night at the main stage. → read more

Pohoda 2019 will feature also the young MC Gleb from Bratislava, who performs fast rhythms in genres such as glitch hop, grime, trap, and D & B. After several mixtapes and EPs, he debuted with Lavička Pimpin in 2017. Gleb prefers harder, faster, and dirtier background music inspired mostly by the British scene. Recently he released singles “Audiokniha”, “Motorest”, and “Gauč Storytelling”, which will appear also on the upcoming second album. Visitors of our festival will be among the first to hear live the songs of the new album.   → read more

After we sold out the lodging in Trenčín huts and Inovec huts, we are launching the sale of another type of accommodation with higher comfort. 5-person tents PSS Fox Village are available in our e-shop, and so is their equivalent, 5-person tents in Family Park. → read more

Pohoda will feature also rapper Rudolf Danihel, aka Čavalenky, from the Czechia-Slovakia border region. This phenomenon makes you believe every words he says, not pretending anything: everything is based on real grounds. Add an original expression, great flow, and excellent background. The half-Roma artist uses the Záhorie dialect in his work, talking about rough street life, racism, gambling, drugs, indebtedness, and subsequent seizures.  → read more

Fantastic impressions left by our artists in Groningen and experiences that the Eurosonic 2019 left in us are captured in an excellent video by Boris Šmotlák and Sophia Boyd of Roadtrip Studio. Its premiere amused the Aftersonic attenders in Nová Cvernovka, from now on you can also watch it on our facebook. → read more

"Those good Slovaks really do cause the biggest hype in the ESNS 2019 line-up," wrote the editor of the Dutch music website OOR, Koen Poolman, in advance of the biggest European showcase festival. DIY, Vice, Noise, German Rolling Stone and many Dutch and Belgian media also brought celebratory reviews of our artists. Beyond the borders of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, almost 100 articles about our artists and bands regarding Eurosonic have been published across Europe up till now. Odes to several of them prove that they did a fantastic job and they’re also a promise that the Czech and Slovak scene will be heard of abroad more and more often. → read more

Next Monday, on the 28th of January in Nová Cvernovka in Bratislava, we will give you a sense of ESNS 2019 atmosphere with members of the Slovak expedition. On the way from Groningen, questions of an after-party were often repeated in the joint chat of CZ/SK members. After all, we decided to arrange a smaller version of Eurosonic with a documentary, an aftermovie, a conference (Denník N debate) and eight concerts. → read more