Today starts the TrutnOFF BrnoON festival: Julian Marley & The Uprising, The Subways, and The Sisters of Mercy

18 August 2022, 2:00
Today starts the TrutnOFF BrnoON festival: Julian Marley & The Uprising, The Subways, and The Sisters of Mercy

The TrutnOFF BrnoON festival has been part of the Brno summer since 2020. This year, bands such as Julian Marley & The Uprising, The Subways, The Sisters of Mercy, Monkey Business, and Reef will perform in Pisárky. The festival starts today and runs until Sunday.

The program includes Czech and international artists. The Trutnov Festival, which last took place “Na bojišti” in 2016, is trying to bring its specific atmosphere to Brno. Its tradition here follows the “Indian” meetings in Trutnov, which have their roots in the underground and still retain a diverse dramaturgy. “In addition to the Sisters of Mercy, this year there will be a Christmas mass, and Aneta Langerová will perform here for the first time. We will thus be complying with the timid wish of our chief, who years ago meekly advocated for Aneta to appear at the festival. Now we’ve finally come to this point and our debt will be settled,” said Martin Věchet, the festival organiser.

The festival starts today, 18 August  at 17:00 and lasts until Sunday, 21 August in the Střelnice area in Brno – Pisárky.

Domestic artists who will perform in Pisárky this year include Michal Prokop & Framus Five, Hudba Praha and Michal Ambrož, The Primitives Group, and the contemporary avant-garde group Vítrholc, grouped around journalist Karel Škrabal. Vypsaná fixa will also return after many years. The groups Povodí Ohře and Circus Problem will perform for the first time. Ryboffka, or Ryba’s Christmas Mass, will also be performed as part of the program. “For the past three years, the Ryba Mass has unfortunately not been able to take place in the Brno arcade at HaDivadlo traditionally before Christmas, so we will hold it in August. And with an expanded ensemble and a drum solo by several drummers,” explain the organizers.

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