THE WARSAW VILLAGE BAND
BRINGS ITS KNEE-SLAPPING GUSTO
BACK FOR NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
MAY 5-25, 2006
The Warsaw Village Band - six young musicians who first played ancient instruments together for the fun of it - have dedicated themselves since 1997 to conserving and experimentally enhancing the traditional folk music of the Warsovia region in the heart of Poland. Blending suka, dulcimer, and traditional “white-voice”, they call it "hardcore folk" or “bio-techno”, and have been compared to the Swedish group Hedningarna for their uncompromising acoustic approach. They won the BBC Radio-3’s 2004 World Music Award in the Newcomer category. In 2005 they appeared in New York’s Global Fest and at the Kennedy Center, and made debut tours in Scandinavia, Italy, Algeria, and Japan. In April of this year they won a prestigious “Fryderyk” Polish Music Award for the best Folk/Etno album of 2005 (“Uprooting”).
“The WarsawVillage Band is one of the most outstanding groups to come out of Poland in the past few years.” - Folk World
“The band have paid their dues in terms of going to the villages and meeting surviving traditional musicians there, but this is no academic copying of details. In a country that's rich with remarkable new music in all genres, it's a celebration of the essence, the spirit and texture of village music, and proof that it has the energy to skip across the generations to be embraced as an adventure…” - Andrew Cronshaw ROOTS Magazine, May 2003