TRAVELERT: Krakow Concert and Event Alerts

For those of you looking for some musical entertainment before or after spending a very long holiday weekend with your relatives, here are two delightful options for your consideration:

Degustacja Piosenek (2nd course)

THURSDAY APRIL 1st (TOMORROW!!!)
Lokator – ul. Krakowska 27
start: 20:00
PLN 10

Degustacja Piosenek is a new Singer Songwriter concert cycle in Krakow featuring: Thymn Chase, Hayden Berry and Dave Molus (+ special guests). Each will perform their own individual works as well as covers of others in various combinations and arrangements.Solo… Duo……. Trio!!!
Expect an evening of intrigue and delight
Zapraszamy do stoliku i smacznego

Don’t Ask Smingus – Dyngus

Monday April 5th (5 kwietnia)

Harris Piano Jazz Bar- Rynek Glowny 28

Start: 21:00
Tickets: 10/15 PLN

Get it… You know the drill folks… Bring a bucket a rain coat and some disposable dignity… It’s wet Monday and Smingus is all about dunkin’ Dyngus.

Water pistols at dawn people…

And if you can’t make it, don’t worry, we’ll find you…

You’ve been warned;)

Thymn Chase from Eluctric

What are your options for Saturday night? You could sit silently on the futon in the hostel checking Facebook. You could march through the main square without pants and try to get yourself arrested. Or if neither of these options sound good and you’re not excited by the prospect of the Wagner concert, you might want to visit Klub Re for the New York band Talibam! The exclamation point is not for emphasis; it’s part of the band name as best I can tell. Expect jittery vocals and sustained bursts of syncopated jazz-like weirdness — horns and scat-singing. All bolted together with heavy guitar work that even a Finnish teenager going through his death metal phase would approve of. Concert starts at 20.00.

Here’s your chance to hear the Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra and Woman’s Choir performing music from the 2nd act of Wagner’s Parsifal, the opera featuring the Christian imagery that so disappointed Nietzsche. The concert will take place in the Kraków Filharmonia on Saturday, 27 March starting and it starts at 18.00. Tickets are 35 or 50 PLN, and it might make sense to drop by the Filharmonia early to pick them up — they might sell out before the event.

Gabriel Chmura – conductor
Marjorie Elinor Dix –  mezzosoprano /Kundry/
Thomas Mohr – tenor /Parsifal/
John Cheek – bass-baritone /Klingsor/

The Alchemia club will be tomorrow a scene of club edition of the festival that each year brings to Poland great adepts of unusual, independent music. this time it will be Phil Elverum’s Mount Eerie, No Kids and Chain and the Gang. Phil Elverum is an icon of lo-fi, lyrically dense fuzz-folk,NO KIDS avant pop Canadian trio,toured with Mount Eerie last year that will present some pieces form their debut album (“Come Into My House”), Chain and the Gang, is perhaps less known, but uncanny and charismatic group.
Alchemia, Estery 5, Wednedsay 24 March, 20:00

Four is the free jazz project of American saxophonist Dave Rempis, Ukrainian contra-bassist Mark Tokar, Polish clarinetist Wacław Zimpel and American percussionist Tim Daisy. Expect colorful, wild and surprising music..
alchemia, Wednesday 17 March at 20:00

With their violent assault of offensive noise and their penchant for scatalogical album titles (“Pee and Poo In My Favotite Loo” and  “Piss and Shit and A Diamond of Perception”) you might think it’s best to avoid the band Woody Alien.  But if you’re a fan of pink punk then you might not forgive yourself for missing their show.  So strap on your favorite pair of thrash boots and get ready for an evening of invigorating dissonance at the Kawiarnia Naukowa on S. Jakuba 29-31  at 20.00 on Wednesday, 17 March.  It’s more fun than eating broken glass.

Michael Zerang is one of the greatest jazz percussionists worldwide, equally well finding himself in band playing traditional jazz, free improv and traditional African and Asian music.

Michael Zarang will perform with Piotr Mełech and Ksawery Wójciński, two, young, polish improvisers. Th music of trio spans between jazz, free improv, contemporary music avantgarde.

Alchemia, 9 March (tueasday), start at 20:00

Fisz Emade jako Tworzywo Sztuczne is a project of two brothers Bartek “Fisz” Waglewski (vocal, lyrics), and Piotr “Emade” Waglewski (music) supported usually by bunch of friends. The music is experimental electronica with considerable elements of jazz and hip hop.Escaping cliche, deep and amusing lyrics are the great virtue of the band
Saturday 6 March, start at 20:00, tickets 30 pln
Klub Studio, ul. Budryka 4

On this day (this year it comes on the 3rd of March) is the last traditional period of tasty indulgence before the beginning of Lent. The Polish tradition is to eat as many pączki as possible on this day, until you break open like a water balloon or roll into the Wisła river, heavy with sweets, where you will sink straight to the bottom.

The pączek is light and fluffy and fried, often drizzled with icing and sprinked with candied orance peel bits.  Often translated into english as ‘donut,’ it does have a filling, traditionally rose-flavored jam. More rare are the ones hiding a payload of Advocat-flavored cream inside, waiting carefully for the invasion of your teeth.

If you do not have connections with Polish grandmas, or if you have not been invited to a Pączki-making party, you can sample them at any of Kraków’s corner bakeries.