June 18, 2015
Památník šoa Praha hosted the music festival United Islands of Prague at the Bubny railway station on June 18, 2015 with a concert of three bands featuring music of various European cultures in a modern style. Thank you for joining us!
6:45 -7:30 p.m. DESHANE, the trio will provide for some Scandinavian tunes. Originally, the band was formed by two musicians known as Deshi (wind instruments, didgeridoo), who invited the Norwegian jazz singer Ane Bjerken to join them. The trio will first cool you down with some melancholic Norwegian folk music before putting you under a spell with shamanistic sounds of the didgeridoo, to finally welcome you back in Europe with arched note sequences of their wind instruments.
8:00 – 8:45 p.m. DŽEZVICA, the Balkan tunes have not disappeared from the Czech music scene. The torch has been taken up by seven musicians from the Dzezvica formation. The band’s style is far from the typical idea of Balkan brass music. Although it’s been partially inspired by it, it has its own, characteristic style, which can be also attributed to the Dzezvica’s line-up: accordion, guitar, cajón, cello, viola, clarinet and flute.
9:15 – 10:00 p.m. PONK, a post-folklore dulcimer trio that’s been successfully breaking down prejudices about folk music. It uses a modest number of instruments (dulcimer, bass, violin and vocals) to produce interesting sounds – an eclectic combination of folk music with blues, rock, funk and R’n’B elements and influences from other musical styles.
More info at http://unitedislands.cz/program/
INVITATION
During the concert you can see the exhibition A Road to Memorial inside the railway station building.
Refreshments will be provided.
In case of inclement weather the concert will move under the roof of the station.
Concert accompanies the transformation of the Bubny railway station into the MEMORIAL OF SILENCE.