Next Friday, 31 August, is the final day for musicians to fill in the Eurosonic 2019 application form at the festivalʼs website: https://esns.nl/play-at-esns. The largest platform presenting new music in Europe will offer an exceptionally large room for artists from Slovakia and the Czech Republic also thanks to Pohoda. Both the countries will nominate eight names to perform in the Netherlands. They will have the chance to showcase their work to many festival visitors, but in particular, to 5,000 delegates from influential agencies, festivals, clubs, and the media. We know in person the people responsible for choosing from all participants, and we can guarantee that they will listen to songs of all the artists. At the same time, we want to encourage representatives of minority genres. Punk rockers, metal bands, classical and experimental music composers, and representatives of folk, jazz, world music, and many other genres have the same (or even bigger) chances than indie bands and dance music producers. → read more

This is a small bite of the Rodriguez' amazing performance at Pohoda 2018. You can see this fantastic songwriter, who has lived an incredible musical and life story, in the Old Marketplace in Bratislava on 30th of September. → read more

The discovery of Pohoda 2018, Donny Benét is returning to Slovakia. Before the 22nd edition of our festival, only a few fans of the current lo-fi disco scene heard about this phenomenal Australian showman and musician. After the festival, Pohodans started his official Slovak fanclub and he also received (similarly to The Chemical Brothers) a praising solo review at the Aktuality.sk portal. It said that this time machine produced a romantic return to the 80s and a show that will be remembered for a long time and, mainly, with a smile on the face. Thanks to the autumn Pohoda in clubs, you can do more than just remember: right after his Australian tour, this bon vivant will fly to Europe again in November and will perform in Brno, Bratislava, Zvolen, Banská Bystrica and Košice on 6—10th November 2018. → read more

The story of Sixto Rodriguez can be boldly called one of the most powerful in the history of music. His songs were copied by millions, they inspired anti-apartheid warriors, and legends were being told about him, while he was working at construction sites back home. One of the best songwriters from the end of the hippie era has finally earned the merited recognition thanks to the Oscar documentary “Searching for Sugar Man”. His history with Pohoda was powerful, too. It took us six years to finally drag him to our festival, and once here, he did not want to leave. He eventually became the last foreign artist to leave the festival grounds. In the course of conversation, he mentioned his two almost-sold-out shows in the Royal Albert Hall as well as the fact that he would like to return to Slovakia very soon. Many artists say they would be glad to come back; Sixtoʼs team worked with us from the very first days after Pohoda. As a result, there will be just one concert added to those in one of the most prestigious music halls in the world—you can see this fantastic songwriter, who has lived an incredible musical and life story, in the Old Marketplace in Bratislava on 30th September. You will enjoy the intimate atmosphere of his songs the way he composed them, as this will be an exceptional solo performance. → read more

Exceptional concerts of Pohoda 2018 will repeat this autumn Some concerts are so good that you want to repeat them as soon as you can. In the case of Donny Benét, we did so the next day after his Friday premiere at Pohoda 2018. Rodriguez performed on Saturday, so there was no time left for his second concert. Despite that, he performed for us on Sunday afternoon in the Artist Village on the festival grounds, where he returned from his journey to the Vienna airport.In the course of conversation, he mentioned his two almost-sold-out shows in the Royal Albert Hall as well as the fact that he would like to return to Slovakia very soon. Many artists say they would be glad to come back; Sixtoʼs team worked with us from the very first days after Pohoda. As a result, there will be just one concert added to those in one of the most prestigious music halls in the world—you can see this fantastic songwriter, who has lived an incredible musical and life story, in the Old Marketplace in Bratislava on 30th September. You will enjoy the intimate atmosphere of his songs the way he composed them, as this will be an exceptional solo performance. After the Australian tour, also the man responsible for the extraordinarily good renaissance of the 80s disco, Donny Benét, will retur to Slovakia. He will make dance the audience in Brno, Bratislava, Zvolen, Banská Bystrica, and Košice in early November. → read more

In addition to the British media, such as The Independent and Gigwise, and media from our neighbouring countries, other journalists from around the world praised Pohoda 2018 in their reviews. We recently shared a great review of the American portal Music Festival Wizards. Today, we continue with the reviews of the Belgian portal Humo, Dutch OOR and Reishonger, and the Brazilian festival portal for Projetopulso.  → read more

“Once you visit, you will want to come back every year to get new experiences,” wrote the Hungarian Music-daily about Pohoda. Their colleagues from the portal added: “The most striking thing was that there were no “filler” artists in the programme compressed in two and a half days, they only had quality, contemporary, and exciting artists.” Polish Radio 17 wrote in the conclusion report of the three days: “There was so much going on that it would be difficult to describe such an adventure in a few words, or to choose what impressed the most. There is a question though that I can answer with one word only. It was worth it? Yes.” Katharina Seidler, in a review for the Austrian radio FM4, wrote about a city in which everybody understands each other. In her following article, she added that Pohoda renewed her belief in the fact that there are still great festivals without completely drunk visitors that are full of human dignity and kindness. Our friends from Ukraine even created a sub-page on their new website dedicated specially to Pohoda. → read more

Since today, you can buy tickets for the 23rd edition of Pohoda also at our brick and mortar retailers. Currently, there are only 1 500 pieces of 3-day tickets left for €89. Unless sold, this pricing will last until the end of the summer, i.e. 23 September 2018. Also please note that the “pick-up in person” option in the Pohoda shop in Svätý Jur will not be available in August. The list of our retailers and their addresses can be found here: www.pohodafestival.sk/en/list → read more

A 20-year-old UK artist Jade Bird is included in Rolling Stone and BBC’s (Sound of 2018) lists of artists you need to know. She released her first EP just six months ago and today almost one million people are listening her on Spotify monthly. She has convinced Pohoda 2018 visitors of her qualities and in addition to the concert on the Budiš stage, she added the song Lottery at the Pohoda acoustic sessions. → read more

Dávid Doroš put together a special compilation of Pohoda 2018 artist photos. He took pictures of them in Artist Village with the use of a special camera obscura technique and black-and-white film. Project name is derived from the exposure time: 60 seconds. His photos were awarded also within the Slovak Press Photo contest. Check the second serie of photos. More photos and more about the project can be found in the current issue of the magazine .týždeň (week). More here: www.pohodafestival.sk/en/news/60-seconds-with-pohoda-2018-cdaviddoros www.daviddoros.com insta: @daviddoros → read more