Folkové prázdniny (Folk Holidays) in Náměšť nad Oslavou is a very special music festival. It lasts for 8 days and many of the visitors truly enjoy this festival as a little holiday full of music, art and dancing, in which they can participate actively or passively, as they wish. Festival is happening in a beautiful areal of the Castle of Náměšť and very beatiful castle park.
more info: http://www.folkoveprazdniny.cz/
Main programme:
On the festival days, we are preparing a series of so-called night concerts, which start at about 30 minutes after the end of the main program, approx. at 23:00
Saturday 28. 7.
20:00 festive opening - places' memories
FRIGG (FINLAND)
A seven-member instrumental band with world-renowned reputation that it is not possible to play faster and more original.
Sunday 29. 7.
13:30
Garden party - dreams, desires and lullabies (From 13:30 in the Stará tkalcovna, from 15:00 Sunday garden party in the castle area, from 17:45 Concerts in the castle area)
Mirek Kemel with a band
Singer-songwriter with an accordion and a band
Ondřej Havelka and his Melody Makers
Voxtra (Belgium)
Celebration of difference hidden in the most amazing vocal heritage of humanity
Monday 30. 7.
17:30 singer-songwriters' memories -fragile songs
Pavol Hammel (Slovakia)
Singer, musician, composer, legend with "Czechoslovak" ensemble
John Smith (GB)
A secret treasure of refined folk songwriting
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker (GB)
British folk
Tuesday 31. 7.
17:30 memory with guitars
Robert Křesťan & Druhá Tráva & Host Michal Pavlíček
Classics of modern bluegrass with rock guitar legend
Dálava (Usa/Canada)
Preview of Moravian songs from Americans with experience from the avant-garde scene
Trio Da Kali (Mali)
Outstanding vocal and instrumental power from West Africa
Wednesday 1. 8.
17:30 about memory
Spirituál Kvintet
The home institution of singing belongs to the basic stones of Czech musical history
Vigüela And Janusz Prusinowski Kompania & Maria Siwiec (Spain, Poland)
The unique combination of a fascinating Polish band with a warm-blooded traditional group from the country of Don Quixote
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino & Piers Faccini J.h. (Italy, GB)
World-renowned ambassadors of dizzying trance Pizzica dance with singer-songwriter personalities
Thursday 2. 8.
17:30 the memory of people and nations
Jan Hrubý 70
Happy birthday to this violin legend
Breabach (GB)
Scottish traditional music at the border of the past and the future
Boubacar Traoré (Mali)
The greatest living legend of African blues
Friday 3. 8.
17:30 let's remember
Szidi Tobias & Band - Sedmoláska (Slovakia)
Slovak chanson singer with a whirlwind reputation
Perkuse a hlasy Nad Oslavou
Concert of three percussion celebrities and three unique singers
Interference (Ireland)
Remembrance of extraordinary personality
Saturday 4. 8.
17:30 about memory both seriously and lightly and from 14:00 the garden afternoon (with monsiuer doumani and interference)
Zvíře jménem podzim
Strong emotions, massive postrock refrains and silent folk contemplations
Monsieur Doumani (Cyprus)
Cypriot acoustic trio shrouded in the smoke of music innovation
Bandadriatica (Italy)
How wild Pizzica of Salento went on a journey along the Adriatic Sea, in other words, towards the Wild East.
