For the first time ever, KNÍHKAVIAREŇ (Book-coffee-shop) with cofee-shop Foxford: this is what the many-year partner, Martinus.sk, will look like at the festival. It will offer readings of Slovak authors performed by popular actors (Čau o piatej), the presentation of the best Czech book of the last year, Dějiny světla (The History of Light), by its author, and, of course, the favourite modern formats liteRAPtúra and Slam Poetry that were dicovered for Czechoslovania by Zogatka. You can also enjoy the official release of Dušan Mitanaʼs book, Slovenský poker (Slovak Poker). → read more

In collaboration with the Open Society Fund, we are bringing one of the most interesting installations of the festival Burning Man to our festival — a chain of balloons. The simple concept is brought into an impressive appearance as helium inflated balloons held on a 500 m silicone rope form various arches and shapes. → read more

The Red Bull Tour Bus will not be the only retro bus at the Trenčín airport. The stylish Škoda RTO is bringing for already the thirteenth time the original mobile type of “open-air cinema”, Bažant Kinematograf. It will play these films: Pohoda 2014, A Hard Dayʼs Night, Postřižiny, 38, Wild Tales, and a biography on Amy Winehouse, the latter one in the Slovak sneak preview. → read more

Summer warm-up with 30-degree temperatures is over, but Bažant Pohoda festival warm-up is yet to come. For the first time in history, you can enjoy pohoda atmosphere before festival’s start: thanks to Bažant Pohoda Warm up Tour with Red Bull Tour Bus! → read more

Design a poster inviting to this yearʼs Welcoming the Sun and win! → read more

Line Up is complete, longer sets for bands playing in prime times are an interesting change. The line-up with the complete programme of the festival Pohoda 2015 is already available on our website. Please note the change of the length of sets: the typical length of 60 minutes will increase to 75-90 minutes for the bands playing between 8:00PM and 11:00PM. Outside these hours, we will keep our system “hour per hour” (or in the evening 90 per 90), which provides the opportunity to go to see more places and orientate better in the programme. This setting prevents crosstalk between the stages. → read more

Peter Kalmus will get a festival exception – he will be allowed to ride his bike. See how he modified the legendary Sobi 20. His performance received a wild card in the Public Art Festival Contest. A wild card went to a wild artist, everything fits... The carriage serves to transport the generator to power the light. By the way, who of you had/has Sobi 20? → read more

Ryba Košice will bring its cod salad at the festival for the third time and, traditionally, will offer festival visitors fresh rolls filled with cod salad. This yearʼs news will be a “needling zone” with “cod salad to be needled”. Besides cod salad, the company will offer sweet summer joys, too – popsicles by Algida. → read more

Polemic is with no polemics a legend of the ska and reggae genres in Slovakia. Since 1988, they have taught at their concerts thousands of those who normally do not listen to the ska genre to love it. → read more

The first visitors of this years' Bažant Pohoda will be welcomed by Matwe Drappenmadchenfeller, a selector, whose multifarious sets include apart from swing mostly nu-jazz, indie and alternative electronic music. The festival will begin with his neo-swing madness. → read more