Eňa ori rači (At Nine in the Evening) - The Folk Band of Július Žiga
created: 14. 11. 2022 10:23 modified: 14. 11. 2022 10:25
The core members of the family cimbalom band are the Žigas from Gelnica: father Július,his daughter Bohdana and son Filip. Guest members are Vladimír Plachetka, Kristián Bandy and Július Bandy. All of them are graduates of conservatories and are engaged in music production professionally. Bohdana Žigová and Filip Žiga were scholarship recipients of the Divé maky organization.
The song Eňa ori rači (At Nine in the Evening) is the slow and sentimental song, halgató. This type of songs are characterized by the romist Milena Hübschmannová (1988) as the ones with lyrics far more important than their melody, since one can say all with the song. In this song, the sister tells her brother that she fears for her life and begs him for protection.
Instruments and players: Július Žiga - double bass, Bohdana Žigová - cello, vocals, Filip Žiga - violin, Július Bandy -cimbalom, Kristián Bandy - viola, Vladimír Plachetka - accordion.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern folk sextet borrowed Romani The Folk Band of Július Žiga general audience internal
Andro 'di špitaľa (There, In Hospital) - The Folk Band of Július Žiga
created: 14. 11. 2022 10:12 modified: 14. 11. 2022 10:15
The core members of the family cimbalom band are the Žigas from Gelnica: father Július, his daughter Bohdana and son Filip. Guest members are Vladimír Plachetka, Kristián Bandy and Július Bandy. All of them are graduates of conservatories and are engaged in music production professionally. Bohdana Žigová and Filip Žiga were scholarship recipients of the Divé maky organization.
The song Andro 'di špitaľa (There, In Hospital) is a slow song expressing the sorrow of children when their mother dies.
Instruments and players: Július Žiga - double bass, Bohdana Žigová - cello, vocals, Filip Žiga - violin, Július Bandy - cimbalom, Kristián Bandy - viola, Vladimír Plachetka - accordion.
The record was created on December 11, 2021, at the Center for Independent Culture Wave in Prešov.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern folk sextet borrowed Romani The Folk Band of Július Žiga general audience internal
The Young Woman - The Folk Band of Július Žiga
created: 14. 11. 2022 10:07 modified: 14. 11. 2022 10:08
The core members of the family cimbalom band are the Žigas from Gelnica: father Július,his daughter Bohdana and son Filip. Guest members are Vladimír Plachetka, Kristián Bandy and Július Bandy. All of them are graduates of conservatories and are engaged in music production professionally. Bohdana Žigová and Filip Žiga were scholarship recipients of the Divé maky organization.
The song Ajsi terňi džuvľi (The Young Woman) is a slow, sentimental composition.
Instruments and players: Július Žiga - double bass, Bohdana Žigová - cello, vocals, Filip Žiga - violin, Július Bandy - cimbalom, Kristián Bandy - viola, Vladimír Plachetka - accordion.
The record was created on December 11, 2021, at the Center for Independent Culture Wave in Prešov.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern folk sextet borrowed Romani general audience internal
Marco Pillo
created: 11. 11. 2022 08:46 modified: 11. 11. 2022 08:51
Marco Pillo - musician, singer, composer. At the Prague Conservatory he studied cimbalom, later guitar. During his studies in Barcelona, Spain, he met with the local Romani flamenco music culture, what later became highly influential factor in his creative work in the field of music. The digital cultural object records his talk about himself, about his studies, about his relationship to music, specifically to Romani music.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Marco Pillo general audience internal
Ďusi Band - Demade, demade (They Beat Me)
created: 09. 11. 2022 13:50 modified: 09. 11. 2022 14:02
The concert of the Romani folk bands organised by the Folk group Ďusi Band from Prešov provided a chance for their own band to present their art. The video presents their performance of the Romani folk song.
Violin - Samuel Bandy
Cimbalom - Július Bandy Senior
Double-bass - Július Bandy Junior
Viola - Kristián Bandy
The video was recorded on November 14, 2019 in The Center for Independent Culture Wave in Prešov.
category: music
tags: instrumental modern folk quartet borrowed Ďusi Band general audience internal
Teri Čikoš
created: 08. 11. 2022 14:16 modified: 08. 11. 2022 14:16
Teri Čikoš comes from Bratislava based family of musician dedicated to music for generations already. She carries on and continues the tradition successfully. She plays the piano, guitar, she is a student of Music and Dramatic Arts at the Conservatory. In the same time she is a teacher of singing at the Elementary School of Arts. Her single titled Pozri (Look) achieved a place among top ten most played songs on Slovak radio stations. She gives concerts with her own music group, moderates and keeps making a well designed place for herself in the field of pop culture in Slovakia. In the video interview, she talks about her family, her beginnings as a singer, the discovery of her Roma identity, and plans for the future.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Teri Čikoš general audience internal
Miroslava Kiňová - Lacemaking
created: 08. 11. 2022 09:16 modified: 08. 11. 2022 09:20
Miroslava Kiňová's from Prešov hobby is making lace. She learnt lacemaking from the well-known lacemaker Barbora Šimková, who specialized in Soľnobanská lace type and founded The Guild of Soľnobanská Lacemakers. There also Miroslava Kiňová learnt her technique of lacemaking. She prefers to create the coloured lace with the motifs that are most often associated with Christmas. Betlehem, stars and small fish made of lace, they are both decorations for the Christmas table as well as a nice gift.
category: crafts
tags: active traditional artistic textiles bobbin lace Slovak Miroslava Kiňová general audience internal
Štefan Vavrek
created: 24. 10. 2022 11:13 modified: 24. 10. 2022 11:24
Štefan Vavrek is a teacher by profession (mathematics and ethical education), a graduate of the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra. He taught in the town of Tornaľa. In 2007, he co-founded an association of mentors for Romani pupils called Tanoda, later he continued the educational activities in the Ternipe organization based in Rimavská Seč.
He started in politics at the local level as the mayor of Rimavská Seč, in 2018 he became a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic (The Slovak Parliament) for the political party Most-Híd. His main agenda was education and regional development. In the interview, he talks about political, national and personal topics.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Štefan Vavrek general audience internal
Ľudovít Petík
created: 24. 10. 2022 10:01 modified: 24. 10. 2022 10:31
Ľudovít Petík comes from well-known musical family, the members of which used to play and, simultaneously, do certain crafts. This stays with the family even today. Ľudovít himself played and all 45 years of his productive live worked as a driver; the last 30 of them as a bus driver of MHD (The City Mass Transportation Enterprise) in Prešov.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Ľudovít Petík general audience internal
Vaker, vaker (Speak, Speak) - Gitana and Ďusi Band
created: 10. 10. 2022 14:04 modified: 10. 10. 2022 15:22
The folk song originally from Balkan region, lyrics by Eduard Čonka, performed by the singer Gitana (stage name), her civil name is Adriana Drafiová, musical accompaniment by Ďusi Band, the folk cimbalom orchestra. The song arrangment shaped it for fitting into rom pop genre. The video was recorded on November 19, 2021 in Prešov, The Center for Independent Culture Wave. Gitana (A. Drafiová) - vocals, Július Bandy - dulcimer, Samuel Bandy - violin, Roland Horváth - clarinet, saxophone, Kristián Bandy - viola, Július Bandy junior - double bass.
Gitana
Musical talent is her family heirloom. Gitana (Adriana Drafiová) used her gift and became an accomplished singer of mainly electro swing and gypsy swing. Already at the age of seventeen, she sang with various bands abroad, performed in Hungary with Jozef Szabo, a respected singer, and later on her years long collaboration with the Kmeťoband began. She also sang a duet with Juraj Benetin, the lead singer of Korben Dallas, which is the opening song of Pixar's animated short film Lava from 2015.
Ďusi Band
Romani family folk band from Prešov, led by the cimbalist Július Bandy. He and his three sons produce and preserve the best traditions of Romani dulcimer music in Slovakia. They perform independently or in collaboration with a wide range of Roma and non-Roma artists. The guest member is Roland Horváth (clarinet, saxophone) from Rimavská Sobota.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern rom-pop quintet original Romani Ďusi Band Gitana Adriana Drafiová general audience internal
