The company Ryba Košice celebrates its seventieth birthday this year and on this occasion, you will be able to taste products available exclusively at Pohoda. Some witnesses may still remember smoked eel, halibut, red fish, and salmon so popular in the 50s. Fish is traditionally smoked using wooden chips technology, and Ryba Košice is the only company in Slovakia that still uses this technology. At Pohoda, they will also offer the traditional cod salad draught in freshly baked baguettes.   → read more

Cheerful swing performed by Funny Fellows is a verified pick-me-up and element of the atmosphere of our festival mornings. The band has new costumes, songs, and lyrics, but they still play on the good old veteran car (Barkas) and use even older instruments. At the twentieth Pohoda, they will play twenty songs of the swing period every morning. They will be welcoming visitors during the opening of our festival with their positive energy and musical gags. → read more

The members of Shibusa Shirazu Orchestra offer a mix of genres and art that you can experience in its full range at Pohoda. The difference is that they do so all at a time and on one stage. The band played four times in a row at the annual Fuji Rock Festival, the Japan's largest festival, as well as at other international festivals such as Glastonbury. They will bring their profuse multimedia experience also at Pohoda 2016 in just a month’s time. → read more

Jambinai brought Korean folk music into the 21st century. They ran oboe-like (piri), violin-like (haegum), and zisther-like (geomungo) instruments through a range of effects and added electric guitar. In a short time, they won several Korean awards for young bands and contests focusing on blending genres. In recent years they played at festivals such as Glastonbury, SXSW, Roskilde, and Primavera. They are releasing their second album "a Hermitage" in a couple of days and will perform at the airport in Trenčín in a monthʼs time. → read more

The Pohoda festival will host the Red Bull Music Academy stage the first time in our country. The RBMA stage is one of the activities of the Red Bull Music Academy itinerant worldwide workshop, which is a celebration of music, culture, and talents that embody it. The varied list of artists of this stage also includes the bass virtuoso Thundercat, the producer Koreless, and the singer Sevdaliza. Besides Pohoda, the RBMA stage is also part of festivals such as Sónar (ESP), Bonnaroo (US), Mutek (CAN), Nothing Hill (ENG), Melt! (GER), Splendour in the Grass (NL), and many others. → read more

We are looking forward to seeing you at the 20th edition of Pohoda Festival on 7 – 9 July 2016. → read more

We will hear the words and tunes of Dmitri Shostakovich, one of the most prominent Russian composers of the 20th century. Robert Roth will read the controversial book Testimony - Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov. A string quartet composed for Jozef Lupták Marián Svetlík, Peter Biely, and Martin Ruman will perform his most famous String quartet no. 8, Op. 110, which is devoted to the memory of victims of fascism and war. Jožko Lupták is an important person of Pohoda. His enthusiasm was greatly influenced by the fact that classical music is strongly represented at our festival. He is one of the main advisors for this area and you will be able to see him several times at this anniversary edition. Also Robo Roth is a member of the Pohoda family. He holds the record in number of appearances at one edition (7) and we are pleased to have him at this year's celebration too.   → read more

Trenčín Chamber Orchestra interprets mostly older music of the Baroque period. At their performance at Pohoda, in addition to Baroque concertos by Vivaldi and Telemann, they will also play the wonderful works of more contemporary music: Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances and Hajdu dances by Vladimír Godár. → read more

You will be able to hear some beautiful classical music tracks at the twentieth Pohoda. Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra will perform works of the most famous Czech composers (Smetana – “Vltava”, Dvorak – “Carnival”, Suk – “Fantastic Scherzo”, and Janacek – “The Ballad of Blanik”), as well as the Slovak song perhaps most played by orchestras abroad, "Musica Slovaca" by Ilja Zeljenka. → read more

What would Pohoda be without Braňuško? Braňo Jobus, the high representative of non-serious music in Slovakia, will be active as a speaker, will play with the bands Karpatské chrbáty and Vrbovskí víťazi, and will also present the project Jobus Pubertus in the Family Park. Karpatské chrbáty, the pioneers of Slovak alternative music, will conclude the Saturday schedule on the Budiš Stage. A couple of hours later, the music and work group Vrbovskí víťazi will greeted the final sunrise over the twentieth Pohoda. → read more