Resisters is a trio of crazy girls whose music and choreography merge into a humorous show. A mix of arrangements with a leading three-part singing of dancing princesses. There’s easiness, humor to it that manage to entertain in an elegant way. We saw them at Waves Vienna and their energy recharged our batteries for the whole evening. → read more
T-shirts and sweatshirts that we sold out at the festival are again available in our shop. We have also launched ticket sales for the disabled and their assistants, caravans lots, and parking cards. We have added winter merch and launched christmas offer for the shoppings above 100 €. → read more
C Duncan is a young Scottish indie-folk composer, artist, singer and multi-instrumentalist. His debut Architect (2015) was nominated for the Mercury Prize. In October, he released his second album The Midnight Sun. According to The Line of Best Fit, he eclipses all expectations and the album received 9 out of 10 points. The versatile and talented graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland will be playing his meticulous work at Pohoda 2017. → read more
Young Brazilian-born singer based in Germany makes music characterized by dark-tinged melodic songs, muted electronica, piano and a distinctive voice and work with vocal. The BBC compares her to Lykke Li and Fever Ray; Berlinger Zeitung to Björk. After two successful albums and this year’s beautiful recording of her live performance at Haus der Berliner, she’s planning to release her third studio album and go on tour in 2017. One of the stops will be at Pohoda, where she’ll be performing with a Slovak female choir. → read more
Slaves released their debut album, Are You Satisfied?, on 1 June 2015. A week later, it ranked number 8 on the UK Album Chart and was nominated for the Mercury Prize 2015. In 2015, they were also nominated for the BBC Sound of 2015. This year, they played the main stage at Reading festival and the BBC praised them for their energetic set. This young band will play their political, cynical, ruthless, energetic punk of the 70’s with catchy garage guitar riffs of the 90’s at Pohoda 2017. → read more
She has won the Echo Music Prize, was nominated for Brit Awards and Grammy, and is this year's best-selling British singer. She released her album in 2016 and has so far sold 18 million CDs. Birdy, a young musician with a beautiful voice, had managed to do all this by the time she was twenty. In early July, she will play also at Pohoda 2017. → read more
Thursday night highlight will be Ylvis with their spectacular The Expensive Jacket Tour set. Brothers Ylvisåker made a name for themselves when their song “The Fox”, whose purpose was to promote the third series of their show I kveld med Ylvis (Tonight with Ylvis), went viral in 2013, exponentially spreading across the internet with over 640 million views as of today. Thanks to this anti-song, people all around the world got to know the gems such as “Stonehenge”, “Dubstep”, “Trucker’s Hitch”, “Jan Egeland”, “A Capella”, “The Cabin” and many more. → read more
“Does Humor Belong in Music?” is a question Frank Zappa asks on his legendary album from 1984. Currently, brothers Ylvisåker and their comedy-music project Ylvis is the best answer out there. Pohoda is the first European venue outside of Scandinavia, where these nice, talented creative siblings will play their show. There is hardly a better fit in Slovakia than Milan Lasica with album Bolo nás jedenásť (There Were Eleven of Us) and band Chiki liki tu-a to accompany them. → read more
In terms of building up festival’s reputation on the international scene, Pohoda being shortlisted in four European Festival Awards categories is the most significant success in its history. Music professionals nominated Pohoda in three categories: Best Festival Line-up and Best Promoter, and Michal Kaščák made it to the shortlist in the category of Award for Excellence & Passion together with the likes of Damon Albarn (Gorillaz, Blur), Ruud Berends (director at Eurosonic) or Fruzsina Szép (director at Lollapalooza Berlin). It’s also thanks to our fans’ votes that we made it to the shortlist of ten Best European Medium-Sized Festivals of 2016. → read more
This is how alt-J played their "Left Hand Free" in the Red Rocks amphitheatre in Colorado. You can see and hear them live also at the Trenčín airport at Pohoda Festival, 6. – 8. July 2017. → read more
