TRAVELERT: Krakow Concert and Event Alerts

>>Martin Kuchen, 7th June, start at 20:00
Born in 1966, lives in Stockholm, plays alto-tenor-soprano and baritone saxophones, selected mutes, pocket radio, floor junk.Has made music to dance and music to dance and music to poetry, to films, to theatre plays and then again, just music, music in the border area of different fields of music /from http://www.martinkuchen.com//
where:Alchemia club, corner of Estery and Plac Nowy (Kazimierz), entrance:9 pln

It is rather remarkable how quickly Krakow has transformed itself into
a modern Music Festival metropilis in the last few years. Of course
the city has always been a bustling hub of cultural festivals and
indeed many world famous artists pass through the city every year
(thank you Celin), however International Pop Rock and Alternative
Music Festivals – the ones where people travel great distances to come
to – have only showed up in the last 5 years. The eclectic and
experimental Unsound started to get things going, then the uber
comercial Coke Live showed up, then the Screen Festival tried to make
some noise… and now the almighty Selector Contemporary Music and
Multimedia Festival will take over the Blonia the first weekend in
June.

When Alter Art (same people that organize Coke Live and Open’er btw)
announced the list of headliners for the Selector festival in March,
shockwaves were sent throughoutt the indie rock and dance world in
Poland. None other than the smarmy scotsmen Franz Ferdinand will be
headlining things have have more danceable guitar anthems then any
other band playing today. Other headliners include Orbital (legendary
British electronica), Röyksopp (swedish downtempo), CSS (brazilian
electronic indie) , Fischerspooner, Dizzee Rascal (Britsih Hip Hop)
and New Young Pony Club (UK indie electro) . The profile of the
festival is certainly a bit of a niche and the organizers mission
statement is to “mainly focus on electronic and dance acts, but
dancefloor friendly rock acts”. With a lineup like this, the festival
is bound to turn into one of the biggest danceparties Kraktown has
ever seen.

With the late cancellation of the Cracow Screen Festival, news of the
Selector Festival was even more timely. This is indeed a huge
undertaking and Alter Art is hoping that it will become the official
start of Festival Season in Poland…. we’ll see I suppose, and I’ll
see you on the Błonia. Take Me OUT!

5-6 June
Błonia
entry: 135 PLN (one day) 200 PLN (two day)

www.selectorfestival.pl

— Many thanks to Thymn Chase for text. –

The classical music season is winding down at the Filharmonia
Krakowska. What better to close the season then with Krakow’s own
Sinfonietta Cracovia chamber ensemble with violinist Robert Kabara,
with one of the worlds best living composer’s Krzysztof Penderecki,
conducting his own  violin concerto no. 1 as well as Felix
Mendelssohn’s symphony no. 4 ‘Italian’ in A major op.90. If you aren’t
a classical music fan it’s time for you to get a bit cultured. Plus it
will be the perfect hangover helper and mood enhancer if you go to the
Selector Festival:)

8 June
Filharmonia Krakowska
1 Zwierzyniecka
start: 19:30

— Many thanks to Thymn Chase for text. -–

>>Krakow Film Festival, 29.05-4.06
Krakow Film Festival is one of the oldest film event dedicated to documentary, animated and short fiction films in Europe. During 7 festival days viewers have an opportunity to watch about 250 films from Poland and abroad. Films are presented in competitions and in special sections like retrospectives, thematic cycles, archive screenings. Festival is accompanied by exhibitions, concerts, open air screenings and meetings with the filmmakers. Every year Krakow Film Festival hosts about 500 Polish and international guests: directors, producers, film festival programmers and numerous audience from Krakow.More about this year’s programme here

>>Surrender, 3rd June (june) , start at 19:00
SURRENDER is a peace punk band with male and female vocals from Oakland/Berkeley, CA.

http://lastwhiteflag.wordpress.com/

where: Kawiarnia Naukowa, św. Jakuba 29-31 (Kazimierz)

>>Cumbia Masacrita by Funklore, 2nd Jun, start at 20:00
Funklore – Digger, Club and radio selector (dj) based in Krakow/Poland. His main concern are the Tropical and Oriental Soundscapes, Afrobeat, Vintage Disco and DUB! As a sound artist and multi-instrumentalist he’s one third of an electro-acustic project Trepang. Together with Kornelia Binicewicz he’s the main force behind Music and World Documentary film festival.
http://www.myspace.com/funkloreregional
where: Klub Eszeweria, Józefa St.9 (Kazimierz)