The Icelandic Saturday at Café Kušnierik will offer also a concert by only twenty-year-old songwriter Arny Margret. A native of the picturesque Westfjords region, she released her debut EP Intertwined this February. Clash called the eponymous single breathtaking and suggestive. The Flood magazine likens Arny to Aldous Harding and José González, and writes about her EP: “It emits the kind of warmth that welcomes vulnerability, like friends around a winter fire unlocking secrets and fears never spoken before.” → read more

Pohoda 2022 will offer also a joint show of two all-time stars of Jamaican music in Slovakia, bands Polemic and Medial Banana. So, the two most positively tuned music formations, which combined the popular genres of ska and reggae, will meet on the stage. The concert will feature two sets of drums, two keyboards, and three guitars, this all complemented by a number of vocals and wind instruments. Their successful collaboration premiered in 2019 and resulted in song Staré Časy, which appeared on the Medial Banana album called Nedotknuteľní. Polemic played at the very first Pohoda will appear also at Pohodaʼs quarter-century edition. Their 90-minute concert with Medial Banana will close the band portion of Saturday’s programme in the dance house. → read more

This year we teamed up with Textile House and created a special collection of sustainable merchandise. In their Senec sorting facility, they selected unique pieces for us, and our graphic artists used them to create a collection of more sustainable goods, which you will be able to buy at the festival. The sustainable collection will be available in two variants in a special retro edition as part of our project Nemoderný chalan / Nemoderná baba (out-of-fashion guy/gal). → read more

The Wilderness will close the Friday’s programme at Café Kušnierik. Juraj’s kind way, positive approach to the world, and his typical phrase “it’s great” are legendary. Juraj was also a “rough guy”, he liked both punk and the dirt of the underground, and any injustice could really upset him. That is why we cannot imagine a better end to the Friday’s programme on his stage than currently perhaps the best punk band, The Wilderness. The band has recorded a new album, which they stubbornly refuse to release, but they regularly play a lot of pieces from it at concerts. The band has recorded a new album, which they stubbornly refused to release, but they regularly play a lot of pieces from it at concerts. Well, rumour has it that it will finally come out, just at the time of Pohoda. → read more

Saténové ruky were a favourite of Juraj Kušnierik, he liked both their lyrics and sound, and so it is logical that they will play in his tent next to the main stage. One of the most marked Slovak bands in terms of lyrics emerged from the unlikely meeting of the original musicians in their forties. The members of Saténové ruky are Marek Kasko Babušiak (vocals, guitar, bass), Vlado Janček (vocals, guitar), Braňo Bezák (vocals, guitar, bass), and Jožo Lipa (drums).   → read more

Exactly after 20 years, the Bratislava cult band Tornado Lue will return to Pohoda. The concert playlist of Tornádo Lue is similar to their currently released first vinyl best of album, featuring newer single songs Oči Slnka and Dobrou Noc. The Czech daily Lidové noviny wrote about them: “The literally legendary band Tornádo Lue is for everyone in the ‘soundtrack’ of the 1990s.” A Slovak band, Czech lyrics, Waits’ old-world atmosphere, Bohumil Hrabal, Sylvia Plath, French chanson, punk, klezmer, cabaret, and especially the strong songwriting statement of Jana Tóthová. Tornádo Lue will play on Friday at Café Kušnierik.   → read more

Band Hvozd will open the Slovak Friday in Café Kušnierik. Juraj liked this band and while they were still together, he recommended the band to us. When we contacted them for the 2020 edition, we got the answer: “Well, we do not exist anymore.” In the end, we agreed on an exceptional concert... While rehearsing the old songs, however, new pieces were also created, then the concert was postponed for two years, and so there are more of those new songs—it can be said that thanks to Juraj’s long wishes, Hvozd is an active band again. → read more

The more people in a vehicle, the better for nature. That is why Slovak Lines will provide visitors to Pohoda with convenient transport up to the festival gate (Gate B) also in 2022. Buses will depart in the afternoon of Thursday, 7th July from 8 cities across Slovakia: Bratislava, Žilina, Banská Bystrica, Trnava, Nitra, Piešťany, Prievidza, and Zvolen. In the morning of Friday, 8th July, some more buses will set off from Bratislava, Trnava, and Piešťany. On Sunday, after the end of the festival, buses will take visitors back home on the same route, departing directly from the main Urpiner stage at 10:30 am.  You can find the exact departure times and other information at https://cutt.ly/PohodaSoSlovakLines, and you can easily purchase here tickets for the buses. They will also be available in the shop on our website starting tomorrow. → read more

“Well-being European elves” are already in full swing preparing activities for the EU tents. @Representation of the European Commission in Slovakia will bring Pohoda on the EUrópa Stage and the EU Fun Zone also this year. The EUrópa stage will be full of good music as well as debates of wise insiders discussing the topics that move Slovakia, Europe, and the world today. → read more

Lay Low is the first confirmed artist from Iceland to play at the Café Kušnierik. There is a lot of symbolism in it, as Juraj Kušnierik was an avid admirer and promoter of Icelandic music and also wrote an excellent book about it, Music of the Island. Lay Low was one of his favourites; her first planned concert at Pohoda was confirmed with us in the backstage after the concert with Emiliana Torrini in Vienna already in February 2009. In the end, the performance did not take place, and we are all the more looking forward to her appearance this year. → read more