“Vigüela to Interact with Audience in Conciertajo, Send your Couplets and Tales”. This is the beginning of the report about Conciertajo.com in World Music Central. Read it all, including some statements by Araceli Tzigane and by Juan Antonio Torres, the musical director of the band, in the web or here below. Thank you very much, Ángel!!!
Vigüela at the Jeonju International Sori Festival, South Korea
The pandemic didn’t allow us to travel to Jeonju, but anyway, Vigüela will have the joy of participating in the Gala of the Jeonju International Sori Festival.
I was there the last year with Janusz Prusinowski Kompania and Manu Sabate and it was an amazing experience.
In this occasion we will count on Toni Quintana, from Jennyrecords, who has been Vigüela’s sound engineer for the last albums, and Jaime Massieu, in charge of the video, with whom we have also collaborated before.
This video below is just a little advance to greet our future public from Jeonju, recorded and subtitled by me (Araceli Tzigane):
A life that deserves a movie: Andrzej Bieńkowski & Muzyka Odnaleziona
Have you ever listened to music so captivating, so crazy and so different from anything else that you wondered ‘For God’s sake, what do these people have inside them to make that music?’ Sometimes, I even want to sneak into their minds to understand the source of that beauty…
This is just the start of a report written by Araceli Tzigane and that has been recently published in Culture.pl, the outstanding communicative project by the Instytut Adama Mickiewicza. It includes a brief bio of Andrzej Bieńkowski and his partner Malgorzata, as well as an interview, translated from Polish to English by Ewa Gomółka.
Andrzej’s life is one of those that make a change in the world. Andrzej, a painter and a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, was widely disdained at the time by his colleagues because of his obsession with rural musicians from around Radom: he would constantly play their music at his house and they were practically the only motif in Andrzej’s paintings over the last few years. He had opted out of a promising career as a painter, even though he was demanded and valued in Switzerland and Italy, so that he did not to have to leave his rural Poland. For years, he recorded without respite those old forsaken musicians from the Radom region, one of the poorest and most isolated in Poland.
Read all the thrilling report here: https://culture.pl/en/article/music-lost-refound-an-interview-with-andrzej-bienkowski You’ll understand how this demanding obsession developed to be one of the most relevant shapers of the current escene of folk music in Poland.
Hudaki Village Band celebrates music and friendship, back to the stage
Little by little music returns to the stages. And it may be the moment now for small gatherings in which to celebrate music and friendship, that we are all healthy, our voices are strong and our intruments are tuned.
Enjoy with us and with Hudaki Village Band this recent moment at Zhovid the Residence, Ukraine.
Watch the video at the bottom
And if you have the handicap of not speaking Ukranian, don’t worry, here you are the lyrics of these two pieces:
Let’s drink, guysHey boys, let’s drink, let’s drink, |
Mariko humiliated meHey, I gaze into the valley, |