- artist:BANDA
- event type:WOMEX 17 Special Focus: Kato Connections
- date:26 Oct 2017
- time:00:00 - 00:45
- city/area:Katowice
- venue:Kato Connections Stage, NOSPR Chamber Hall
- country:Poland
- event posted by:Piranha Arts
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Banda's music springs up from the deep pool of Slovak traditional music and leaps over borders in all directions, picking up elements of blues, jazz, Balkan, Celtic and Latin music as they fly. With dexterous use of an assimilated acoustic line-up of dulcimer, viola, violin, contrabass, helicon accordion, mandolin, bouzouki, drum set and some rich and rousing vocals, they create serious fusions with deceptively playful ease: Moravian mountain dance tunes reel over a reggae rhythm; an organic hip-folk groove softly drives a plaintive Ukrainian ballad. They've released two albums to date, the first, Banda Jedna, ignited enough international airplay to reach the top ten of the World Music Charts Europe in 2011, while the second, HraBanda, repeated that feat in 2014 and was named one of the best albums that year by NPR's Global Village Radio Show.
Samuel Smetana - violin, mandolin, bouzouki, tambourine, vocals
Alžbeta Lukáčová - dulcimer, accordion, percussion, vocals
Ivan Hanula - viola, mandolin, bouzouki, vocals
Peter Obuch - bass, vocals
Ajgi - drums, percussion, vocals
Eva Brunovská - vocals, keyboard