Július Bandy
created: 19. 06. 2024 06:33 modified: 19. 06. 2024 06:35
Július Bandy st. comes from a family in which musicianship has been handed down from generation to generation. The interview focuses on his family and personal history, his career as a professional dulcimer player, passing on his artistic legacy to his sons, and finally, reflections on the present and future of Roma music production.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective monologue guided Slovak Romani Július Bandy general audience internal
Štefan Cína / Martina Ďuriková Cínová
created: 31. 05. 2024 07:44 modified: 31. 05. 2024 07:46
Mgr. et Mgr.art. Štefan Cína comes from the village of Hnilec, where he was born into the family of musicians. He studied accordion at the Jozef Adamovič Conservatory in Košice, later went on the Prešov University in Prešov where he studied Teaching of Music Art and Technology, he achieved the bachelor’s degree. He received his master's degree at the Catholic University in Ružomberok in the field of Music and Church Music, and later studied the accordion at the Ternopil National University of Volodymyr Hniatuk in Ukraine. He currently works as a music teacher at the Private Elementary School of Arts in Odorín.
In 2007 he started the Štefan Cína's Folk Music, the band recorded a CD called Ja chlapec chudobni/I am a Poor Guy. The band composed and recorded part of soundtrack of the Slovak film Loli paradička/Red Tomato. The band also recorded the CDs of the Folklore Ensemble Orgonina, and the Folklore Group Jamničan. Together with the band, they took part in several large TV programs, in 2017 it was the TV show Zem spieva/The Earth Sings, in 2018 Československo má talent/Czechoslovakia has Talent.
Martina Ďuriková Cínová, DiS.art. comes from the village of Hnilec, from the family of musicians.
She studied violin at the conservatory in Košice, and since 2020 she is a student at the Catholic University in Ružomberok, Department of Music and Church Music. From 2014, she worked as a music teacher at the Elementary Art School in Smižany. Since 2007, she has been a member of Štefan Cína's Folk Music, the band recorded a CD called Ja chlapec chudobni/I am a Poor Guy. The band composed and recorded part of soundtrack of the Slovak film Loli paradička/Red Tomato. The band also recorded the CDs of the Folklore Ensemble Orgonina, and the Folklore Group Jamničan. Together with the band, they took part in several large TV programs, in 2017 it was the TV show Zem spieva/The Earth Sings, in 2018 Československo má talent/Czechoslovakia has Talent.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Štefan Cína Martina Ďuriková Cínová general audience internal
Live Book – Gitana – Adriana Drafiová
created: 12. 04. 2024 09:10 modified: 12. 04. 2024 09:11
The "Live Book" format presents the well-known Romani singer Adriana Drafiová, who performs under the stage name Gitana. The recording was made in November 2021 and was broadcasted by RTVS in an exclusive premiere. From a dramaturgical point of view, Gitana is presented as a "living book" that tells the viewer her life story in the field of music, and also about music as a family tradition. In the recording, she interprets traditional Romani and Hungarian songs accompanied by the family cimbalom band Ďusi Band from Prešov.
She inherited great musical talent from her father and grandfather, who were sought-after Romani musicians. She took inspiration by singers such as Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and Barbra Streisand. At the age of seventeen, the first offer to perform abroad came. It started in Switzerland and gradually she traveled a large part of Europe as a singer. She also sang in front of world-class celebrities, such as Tina Turner, Claudia Schiffer, David Copperfield and Boris Becker. In Hungary, she performed with the well-known singer Jozef Szabo, and a little later her long-term collaboration with the group Kmeťoband began.
Later, she became more focused on a new musical style, i.e. electro swing and gypsy swing, while using support of her music producer Slavo Solovič. Her other musical achievements include recording of the title song in Slovak for the animated fairy tale Lava produced by the Disney film studio. The song is a duet with Juraj Benetin, singer of the band Korben Dallas.
She performs both solo and with a band.
The video was documented on 19/11/2021 in Prešov in the center of independent culture Wave on Hlavná Street. Adriana Drafiová - Gitana - vocals, Július Bandy - cimbalom, Samuel Bandy - violin, Roland Horváth - clarinet, saxophone, Kristián Bandy - viola, Július Bandy, Jr. - double bass, text: Eduard Čonka.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Adriana Drafiová Gitana general audience internal
Live Book - The Folk Band of Július Žiga
created: 12. 04. 2024 07:47 modified: 12. 04. 2024 07:48
The „Live book“ presents the well-known Romani band Žigovci from Gelnica. The recording was made in December 2021 and is created for the purpose of RTVS television broadcasting. From a dramaturgical point of view, the founder of the band Július Žiga is presented as a "living book", who tells the viewer his life story and the story of the band in the field of music, but also about music as a family tradition.
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: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Július Žiga general audience internal
Dezider Horváth, Krásnohorské Podhradie
created: 20. 03. 2024 13:36 modified: 20. 03. 2024 13:37
Dezider Horváth, the leader of the local Roma community in the village of Krásnohorské Podhradie, talks about the village, the settlement and its origins, the local Roma community as well as his personal and family history. Dezider Horváth is a memorial of many historical events, he also talks about the years when he was active in the field of Roma national politics and local civic activism.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical dialogue guided Romani Dezider Horváth general audience internal
Ján Rigo
created: 14. 03. 2024 06:41 modified: 14. 03. 2024 10:42
Ján Rigo comes from Bratislava. He attended the Folk Conservatory, he is a long-time musician playing the double-bass, currently as a freelance musician. He played together with many renowned musicians both in Slovakia as well as abroad. He is a guest musician performing with the bands Gipsy Way Ensemble, Gypsy Jazz SK (the music band lead by Ján Berky-Mrenica Jr.) and at the time of the recording he was a permanent member of the group Manuša, with which he released an album of the same name in 2022.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Ján Rigo internal general audience
Rudolf Balog a Július Ökrös
created: 04. 03. 2024 14:32 modified: 04. 03. 2024 14:34
Rudolf Balog and Julius Okros are members of the cimbalom band named Peter Horvath Orchestra. Rudolf Balog plays double-bass, Julius Okros plays violin. In the interview with both of them, made as an outcome of documentation of the Romani cimbalom bands, they speak about musical family environment, the influence it had on their actual professional lives. Julius attended the Art School in Filakovo which he graduated, thus he achieved the secondary music education. When five year old, he got violin in his hands and keeps holding it still. Rudolf was self-taugh musician who learnt fundamental skills how to play the music instrument in his family. The video document was recorded on August 24, 2022 in Presov.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Rudolf Balog Július Ökrös internal general audience
Viliam Didiáš
created: 01. 02. 2024 12:54 modified: 01. 02. 2024 12:55
Viliam Didiáš comes from Zvolen, from a family of musicians. He was gifted his first violin when he was three years old. After graduating from the then Folk School of Arts, he continued his studies at the Ján Levoslav Bella Conservatory in Banská Bystrica. After graduation in 1998, he started performing as a freelance artist. He completed several master’s art courses, significantly improving his mastery of playing the violin as well as more mature interpretation of music. He played in various musical groups, at the time of the recording he was a permanent member of the group Manuša, with which he released an album of the same name in 2022.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Viliam Didiáš internal general audience
Denisa Havrlova - Speaking
created: 22. 01. 2024 16:20 modified: 22. 01. 2024 16:21
Mgr. art Denisa Havrlova (1971-) is the Romani activist and journalist, born in the village Ocova. She graduated from the Fine Arts College in Bratislava, specialization as a director of documentary film, as well as from the Academy of Arts in Banska Bystrica, where she studied the documentary film making. She was active in the field of journalism, since 1998 she started to work for the Romani newspaper Romano nevo lil, in Presov. Later on, in 2008, she became its editor-in-chief. For the Slovak Press Agency (TASR) she worked as the visual editor, she also tried the work for the Office of Plenipotentiary of the Slovak Government for the Romani Communities. In her speaking she mentions her first steps in journalism and the following professional growth. She speaks about the Romani topic in the media, the picture of Roma in the media and the Romani media. She speaks about the people who helped her in professional and personal development, and she expresses her gratitude.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Denisa Havrľová general audience internal
Miroslav Pokoš
created: 16. 01. 2024 06:25 modified: 16. 01. 2024 06:26
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.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Romani Miroslav Pokoš internal general audience
