One summer evening, one place, three stages, and on them a continuous flow of the most interesting music of the Czech-Slovak jazz scene. That’s what The Syncopation Festival is all about, where the second edition will feature, among others, the jubilant Peter Lipa, but also the Ochepovsky Project or the Tomáš Sýkora Trio & Aid Kid.
A syncope in music is a rhythmic-metric formation that embellishes the regular progression of a musical phrase, say the blueprints of music theory. Syncope is also the medical term for an episode of brief disturbance of consciousness. The two definitions intersect in jazz music – syncope, along with swing, has been a hallmark of jazz since its earliest forms, and a brief loss of consciousness can be brought on by the trance-like state you can experience both when making and consuming music. Our Syncopation Festival is a festival within a festival that focuses on the domestic scene and its international collaborations. Thus, every year we offer the best of local jazz and related genres on three stages at the Husa na provázku Theatre.
