TRAVELERT: Krakow Concert and Event Alerts

>> Audio Art Festival, 21 Nov- 6 Dec

Audio Art is an experimental and postmodernist art of the close of XX century and the beginning of the XXI century. Audio Art is an integration of sound and visual art. Presentation of Audio Art appears in form of the concert, performance and installation. Audio Art creates new concept of sound source: as an object and musical instrument in certain space and time. Audio Art is a “one person art”: composer, designer and performer unify the whole process of art creation. Audio Art uses low and high technology. Audio Art Festival presents individual artists from all over the world. Festival also presents other non-audio art events extending the whole image of the art based on sound.
programme and more info

27 Nov (Thur)

>>Żywiołak and Valravn, start at 20:00
Żywiołak is a polish band just about to release its debut album, despite short existence having many faithful fans
Valravn is a legend of Danish and more broadly Scandinavian folk music. The meeting of the two should result in energetic cocktail.
http://www.myspace.com/zywiolak
http://www.myspace.com/valravn
where: Klub rotunda, 3 Maja St 5 (next to main building of National Museum), entrance 15.20 zł

23rd November

>concert Tricky at klub Studio

Trip-hop king for the first time visits Krakow.

Where: Klub Studio, ul. Budryka 4 (AGH) start at 20:00 tickets: around 110 PLN

22nd November

>concert Baaba

We already recommend this band find some short info + MySpace links travellert about baaba >>
Where: Klub Re, ul. Św. Krzyża 4, start at 20:00 tickets: don’t know but worth

nov 20 (thur)

>>Joachim Mencel & Maciej Adamczak, start at 20:00
Joachim Mencel -piano
Maciej Adamczyk -bass
non -stereotypical jazz, inspired by traditional and contemporary music
where: Piec Art, Sławkowska St.12 (old town)

20 Nov (thur)

>>Muchy& Hatifnats, start at 20:00
Two very young yet recognizable and acclaimed bands of polish stage
indie rok but also post-beat-power-puff-dance-punk-youthloud-romantic-garage-pop extravaganza
http://www.myspace.com/muchyband
http://www.myspace.com/hatifnats
where:Klub Żaczek, 3 Maja St. 5 (next to main building of national museum)

>>15th International Film Festival ETIUDA&ANIMA, 14th-21th Nov
The oldest and the most important festival in Poland presenting animated films and student shorts from all over the world.
>>programme

17 Nov (Mon)

>>Matthew Shipp Trio
Matthew Shipp (USA) – piano
Joe Morris (USA) – bass
Whit Dickey (USA) – drums
Matthew Shipp – one of the most talented contemporary jazz composer and pianist. In mid 80s Shipp has begun his constant cooperation with William Parker. At first he played in David S. Ware’s quartet what brought him big succes (great recordings for DIW label). Then the fame came after concerts and records with trio with William Parker on bass and Whit Dickey or Susie Ibarra on drums. His recordings in duos with Rosco Mitchell and Mat Maneri were equally enthusiastically accepted. Shipp leads his own trios – one with William Parker and Guilermo E. Brown and second one with Joe Maneri and Whit Dickey, quartets – with different instruments, such as : Rob Brown on saxophone, Wadada Leo Smith or Roy Campbell on trumpet and Mat Maneri on violin. His solo projects are also very good. Shipp recently got involved in electronic music./after alchemia.com.pl/
www.matthew shipp.com
where: Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej “Manggha”, Konopnickiej street no.26, tickets 35/30 zl

16th Oct

>>AMC TRIO (sk) & Borys Janczarski
jazz
B. Janczarski – tenor saxophone
P. Adamkovič – piano
M. Marinčák – double bass
S. Cvanciger – drums
www.myspace.com/ulfwakenius
where: Harris Piano Jazz Bar, Main square 28, 20/25 pln

>>Orerio and Tripis, start at 19:00

>Orerio (hardcore, screamo, metal) is five people like five fingers at one hand. Each different, with its own function and skills..
Kuba”Kubańczyk”-drums, Marcin „Tara”-bass, Grześ „Dzodzo”-git, Grześ „Kuman”-git, Darek „Dziekan”-scream
www.myspace.com/oreirobandpl
>Tripis (punk/hardcore/pwerpop)- they exist from 1997, still with the same members (Kali/bass, Wójek/dtrums, Jarek/git, Qpa/vocal). They play only their own material, that could be described as solid, violent hc punk, with respect to the tradition yet with modern sound.
www.myspace.com/tripisrocks
where: Kawiarnia Naukowa, Jakuba St. 29-31, tickets 10 pln

15 Oct (Sat)

>>Don’t ask Smingus, 8 pm -11:55 pm

If you happen to be looking for something to do Saturday night that involves imbibing bubbly beverages in a cozy closeted corner cafe while listening to mildly melancholy melodic music made by an Englishman American and a Pole… this is it.
www.myspace.com/dontasksmingus
where: Cafe Szafe, Felicjanek St. 10

13 Nov

>> one of the gratest world’s sopranos will perform tomorrow in Krakow at Philharmonic Hall
adress: Zwieszyniescka St.1, start at 19:00

13 Nov (thur)

>L.Stadt (pl, łodz), concert, 20:00
alternative/garage/indie
a good band combining new rock trends and old school music, strong, characteristic vocal
where: Alchemia Club, corner of Estery and Plac Nowy (Kazimierz), tickets:15/10 pln
L.Stadt on myspace

11 Oct

>>Contemporary Noise Sextet, start at 20:00
The sextet was used to known as  Contemporary Noise Quintet. The band plays jazz, in this incarnation more open and space-full, more improvised than before. The band (as sextet) recorded recently the album “Unaffected Thought Flow” and will be promoting it during this show.
http://www.myspace.com/cnquintet
where: Klub re, Św. Krzyża St. 4 (old town)

>>4.Festiwal Muzyki Polskiej, 9-16 Nov

World premiere of Wojciech Kilar’s “Te Deum”, Pawel Mykietyn’s “Passion according to St. Marek”, concerts of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and Krzysztof Penedrecki, great permorfers of Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio  and London Simfonietta are some highlights of this years edition.
The main idea of festival is promotion of polish music in Poland and outside Poland. The best what you can get in polish contemporary music.
More about + programme http://www.fmp.org.pl/en/index.php?pokaz=program08

9 Nov

>>Vespa, start at 20:00
VESPA’s members call themselves “the worst band in Poland” at once finishing all comments on their skills as the instrumentalists.VESPA is one of the first Polish bands playing ska music. Created in 1995 by Radar (vocal), Krzaq (bass), Pasterz (drums) and Kantor (guitar). The band was soon joined by Maciek (guitar) and they called themselves VESPA and began to conquer the world. At this time the band members were fascinated by so called third wave of ska but due to poor music skills at that time, they sounded more like ska-punk. Now after many ups and downs, deconstructions and reconstructions the band’s music is a neat combination of Jamaican ska and rocksteady rhythms and American ’swing revival’
more on their myscpace> http://www.myspace.com/vespaska
where: klub Imbir, Św Tomasza 35 (old town)

7th Nov (Fri)

>>High Places and partly parallely Paramount Styles
High Places start at 19:30
High Places is band formed in 2006 in New York by Rob Baker and Mary Pearson. their music combines simply, catchy melodies with electronic, multilayer musical background
http://www.myspace.com/hellohighplaces
Paramount Styles start at 21
After a run of revered albums in the 1990s with Girls Against Boys, singer/guitarist Scott McCloud will released his first solo album under the name Paramount Styles. The album is called Failure American Style. McCloud got help on the Paramount Styles record from GVSB/Bellini drummer Alexis Fleisig, Psychedelic Furs’ (and now Guns N’ Roses’) guitarist Richard Fortus, singer Angela McCluskey, cellist Marlan Barry, and composer/pianist Paul Cantelon. The concert is part of the Paramount Styles European tour.
http://www.myspace.com/paramountstylesnyc
where: Klub Re, Sw. Krzyża St. 4 (old town area)

7th  nov (fri)

>Renton (w-wa, pl), concert, 20:00
Quite startling and original blend of college rock, post punk and indie rock.Their first album “take-off”, that will be presented during concert, is a compilation of 13 melodic songs which combine a dynamic rhythmic section, noisy guitars, strong vocals and energetic raw songs. Renton experiments with different music moods, at the same time stylistically remaining within the convention of genuine guitar play, rooted in tradition of the Beatels’ pop songs.
myspace
where: Zascianek, Rostafińskiego 4, tickets 18 zl

 5 Oct (wed)

FUNK DE NITE & BRYAN CORBETT
Ryszard Krawczuk - lead, saxophones
Piotr Grząślewicz – guitar
Piotr “Quentin” Wojtanowski - bass
Artur Malik – drums
Bryan Corbett ( UK) – trumpet
www.myspace.com/funkdenite
www.myspace.com/bryancorbett
where: Harris Piano Jazz Bar, Main Square 28, start at 21:00, tickets: 5 zł

4th Nov

>>HI Five, concert, start at 21:00
an evening with traditional jazz
A. Marchewka-kornet
M. Korzyńska - vocal
J. Giga-Morański - piano
M. Jamroga - double-bass
A. Popiel - drums
where: harris Piano jazz bar, Main Square 28, tickets: 10 zl