The sensation of the German folk scene, Bukahara, made the Pohoda attenders dance as well. The band mixes gypsy jazz, swing, and reggae with Balkan and Arab influences. They performed their song My Name within Pohoda acoustic session. https://youtu.be/H4OLTX0chN8 → read more
Pohoda 2019 also hosted the Finnish-Beninese band Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble. The band mixes afrobeat, voodoo rhythm, jazz and funky. This Afro-Nordic collaboration has already captivated fRoots, worldmusic central and many other world music-oriented portals and charts. This is how they performed for us within Pohoda acoustic session. https://youtu.be/NbDUWFbFbKw → read more
The Brighton band Penelope Isles is another band that took part in our acoustic sessions. Line of Best Fit described their songs like “Their tracks are like your favourite sweets with shards of broken glass embedded in them, the potential of which is just screaming out for attention.” https://youtu.be/D8MW1K3mRuk → read more
Pohoda 2019 also featured Emmanuel Jal, the former child soldier from South Sudan, together with his sister Nyaruach. Emmanuel has released five award-nominated albums, co-starred with Reese Witherspoon in the motion picture The Good Lie, performed at Live 8, Nelson Mandela’s 90th Birthday Concert and the One Concert for his Holiness the Dalai Lama. He is one of the spokesmen for the Make Poverty History campaign; he was awarded the Desmond Tutu Reconciliation Award 2017, The Dresden Peace Prize; he was asked to give a talk at TED Global, to be a Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum, and he also performed at the G20 summit. In addition to their concert at Orange stage, they also played for us within Pohoda Acoustic Session. https://youtu.be/R-e4jWsxJ4w → read more
Pohoda 2019 also hosted Afghanistan’s firstall-female orchestra – Zohra. The members of the ensemble are one of the first women in their families and throughout the country to study music in the past 30 years. In a very short time, these brave musicians earned the recognition of the media as BBC, NPR, CNBC, The New Your Times, Le Figaro, La Repubblica and many others. In addition to the concert on the main stage, they also performed for us within Pohoda acoustic session. https://youtu.be/Yhadai90iy4 → read more
Pohoda featured the Scandinavian-Balkan folk-punk of the band Trio Katastrofa. The band consists of the Swedish violinist Sofia Hogstadius (specialized in Bulgarian folk music), Swedish-Chilean percussionist Stefan Hedborg and Slovenian accordionist Matija Solce, while everyone is involved vocally as well. Michal Kaščák witnessed one of their flamboyant performance and described it as follows: “What the Trio showed was a demonstration of perfect communication with the audience, as well as a demonstration of musical mastery, the joy of which can make you laugh.” This is how they performed for us within Pohoda acoustic session. https://youtu.be/vJCP9DWp9As → read more
Traditionally, the first video Pohoda acoustic session band Funny Fellow. This is how they welcomed visitors to the 23rd edition of our festival. https://youtu.be/5E1jlH4COq8 → read more
Para also played within the Pohoda acoustic session series. Just a few months ago, their record Našou Krajinou received a Radio_FM listeners' award for the Album of the Year at the Radio_Head Awards 2018. The song Linda, which they exclusively performed in an acoustic version by the symbolic gate Spojili nás (They united us) by Martin Dzurek and Ján Vajsábel, is from this album as well. https://youtu.be/WCl0yES7PCE → read more
Austrian indie rock duo Cari Cari played at Pohoda 2019. Volume compares them to The xx or The Kills in their review. The Rolling Stone named them the biggest surprise of last year’s Primavera. The duo is singer and drummer Stephanie Widmer and guitarist Alexander Köck. They have lived in London, Hamburg and also Melbourne, from where the singer sneaked didgeridoo and jaw harp into their songs. Songs from this EP appeared in TV series Shameless and The Magicians. They played Bob Dylan's cover Don't Think Twice It's All Right within Pohoda acoustic sessions at Pohoda 2019. https://youtu.be/xedJDnxeetM → read more
Since today you can shop online on our website the new Pohoda merch, which was introduced at Pohoda 2019. Some pieces were even photoshot by Pohoda 2019 artists. www.pohodafestival.sk/en/shop → read more
