Miroslav Pokoš
created: 05. 04. 2023 13:52 modified: 27. 10. 2023 13:00
He comes from the village of Šumiac, from the family of musicians. His father's family are the Pokoš musicians from Šumiac, his mother's family the Harvans from Telgárt. These are the localities in which guitar or keyboard instruments never dominated. Instead, violin, accordion, double-bass and cimbalom were key instruments played there. He plays the double-bass, violin and accordion. He is a musical self-taught person. The Pokošovci Band plays both Slovak and Romani folklore music from the region of Horehronie.
His brothers Rado and Stano and him released the album Folk Band Pokošovci 2, which reached the 15th place in the World Music Chart Europe, in January 2020.
The photos were taken during documentation of the Pokošovci Band during implementation of the project focused on documenting the Romani family cimbalom bands.
copyright: State Scientific Library in Prešov
recorded: 26. 08. 2022
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Miroslav Pokoš general audience internal
