TRAVELERT: Krakow Concert and Event Alerts

If you go a bit outside of the city you can find interesting spots, like for example Garaż on Kasztelańska st.

Artistic project based in real garage by graphic couple Nina & Piotrek. Place works pretty well from last year, every month exhibition, concert or just a meeting for friends from friends.

Tonight in Garaż – Pwee3000 showing his works for the very first time and concert of Świniary who describe their music as hahard rock and hard cock. Short description says Pwee3000 was raised by travelling, skateboarding and snowboarding. Go and check by yourself how he absorb the world and spit it out in his drawings.

Come to Rozrywki 3 on Wednesday, 18 January (from 20.00 until 4.00, they say!!!) for the “No-Step” party / concert.

The NO STEP party invites you to imaginate the times when tribal and minimal beats did not yet rule the dancefloors of Kraków. Let us listen instead to the nostalgic and romantic sounds of the eighties and yes even earlier. Gird yourself up for a decent dose of guitar noise.

Several bands will be playing, and you’ll sit at home incessantly trawling Facebook, and you will be making a terrible mistake by missing:

• Kaseciarz – Surf rock straight from and to the heart (like a syringe full of epinephrin) of Małopolska. Everything they’ve recorded, they’ve recorded for free. No-budget is the new low-budget. Check them out  and hear their stuff here and here.
• The Pleasure Is Mine – The band formed in 2008 when they met at a party in the long-departed (and their bio says LENDARY – I didn’t know it was LEGENDARY) B-Side Club. Cold wave, they say, Shoegazer, so wear nice shoes. Their first record will appear on the scene in the spring. Know them, love them through all orafices here and here before you go.
• By Proxy – A two-person group which sprouted and spread four long years ago right here in Kraków. Presently they’re developing new material live, so that’s what you’ll hear here and here.
• Cat’s Whiskers – Two musical members (what’s a musical member?) and one in charge of visuals. Does that make the third a visual member? All three members share in a love of cats and of The Smiths.

All this costs 10 PLN to add to your life, which is less than the price of 1/4 of an onion in most countries. Put on your snowboots and dance yourself silly.

FORTIFIED is a new cycle of concerts organized by Krakow music collective Loose Wire. it presents the newest independent alternative and experimental rock bands. During every edition new bands will be presented, from Krakow, Europe and around the world.

Loose Wire Presents:

Father Issues (PL) – folk music
Peter J. Birch (PL) – songwriter and singer
New Century Classics (US/IT/UK/PL) – international post-rock group
Teddy Jr. (NL/UK/PL) – amazing folk/grunge/balkan mix
Eluktrick (US/PL) – eclectic, energetic, electric

F O R T I F I E D
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October 7, 2011
Forty Kleparz (check on the map how to get there)
ul. Kamienna 2-4, Kraków
Start: 20:00
FREE Entrance!!!!

Highly talented Edwin Moes from Holland will perform in Cafe Szafe 14 of July, starts from 7 pm (probably 7:30- 8pm).

Good folk/pop/country mix, nice place, good atmosphere, no tickets and cold beer. What else do you need Thursday evening? (Maybe dinner at Travellers before;)

Cafe Szafe

ul. Felicjanek 10

Teddy Jr  myspace page

Summer in Krakow can be really busy, Jewish Festival is getting till the end and Jazz Festival in Piwnica pod Baranami has started on the 3r ( Basement under rams). It’s the biggest polish jazz festival and one of the biggest in Europe. During one month around 50 concerts will happened and some 200 polish and foreign artist will perform for 30 thousand listeners. You can be one of them feeding your senses with jazzzzzz…………….

This year it the 16 edition of the festival, from 3 till 21 of July you have a change to listen jazz every day. Polish bands, international stars.

Tickets are available  and every day before the concerts, if you want to buy them in advance go to:

Punkt Informacji Miejskiej - ul. Św. Jana 2 oraz Plac Wszystkich Świętych 2

Filmotechnika – Rynek Główny 9, Pasaż Bielaka

Finger – ul. Warszawska 18

Here you can find program of the whole Festival

Tickets for very day concerts regular 40pln and 2opln students

Today Chick Corea is playing in Hala Wisły (tickets from 250pln to 150pln). Unfortunately can’t assure you will still get the ticket right before(ask at the reception to book it for you).

If you’re visiting Kraków right now (and not living in a field in Greece) you should really make space in your life to see Animal Collective. They’ll be playing at Łaźnia Nowa in Nowa Huta. The show is at 20.00 on the 22nd of May. Tickets are 110 PLN the day of the concert (about 28 EUR) or 85 PLN in advance. This is the music that monks will sing in the future. When they are encouraged to dance more, and when they have lots of synthesizer equipment in their cells.

A new concert series offered by 100.5 FM Radiofonia wants to bring not necessarily the most well-known artists but the “most real, most promising, most rebellious, most experimental” to the stage.

As the first in this series they offer Grabek. Grabek, who “for the past 6 years in the music school learned to operate a perfect bow.”

His debut will be on April 1st in Kraków at 20.00 in the club called Rozrywki Trzy. Which is not to be confused with Kraków’s drunk tank, for which the club is named.

Ticket price? “Whatever the performance is worth to you,” they say.

Plum and Woody Alien (deeming their previous band names to palatable and normal) have a new project called TERRIBLE DISEASE.

Their manifesto:

TERRIBLE DISEASE builds a wall of sound around you. You will be unable to turn toward the bathroom, you will not be able to rise from the kitchen floor. You will not be able to identify objects. What’s that coming toward me? Is it a grapefruit, or a bulldozer? After TERRIBLE DISEASE you will not be able to tell.

“If you listen long enough to TERRIBLE DISEASE,” they say, “you will likely die. That’s our goal: to kill you. We hate you because you’re ugly, messy, neurotic, selfish and pathetic. Without you the world will be a better place.”

Terrible Disease are:

Arek – bass guitar
Meow – Vocals
Peter – guitar / vocals
Zbyszek – drums

TERRIBLE DISEASE claims to have no influences. They sound like nothing!

Hear the belligerent roar of the void, swirling up to swallow your sad little soul on Saturday, April 9 in Kawiarnia Naukowa. Doors open at 20.00. The concert will cost 10 PLN.

“Little is known,” writes a site dedicated to reviewing Japanese music, “about the mysterious trio that goes by the name of Mouse on the Keys.”

Here’s what we know:

• They have a cool minimal poster up around town
• Their music might be “experimental,” “hardocore,” “hip-hop,” and “somewhere between jazz and post-rock”
• Like so many bands in our modern day they have a MySpace page where you can listen to some of their music and see if your computer has a Japanese character set installed
• They are playing at Kraków’s Klub Re on March 8 at 20.00

www.myspace.com/petethepiratesquid
PETE THE PIRATE SQUID German/Swedish formation playing from 2002 quite intriguing mix of post punk (inspired by The Ex, Submission Hold, Dog Faced Hermans, Life, but How to Live It?), alternative rock (PJ Harvey) and hardcore screamo (Analeny i 1905).
Well those, who seen them during 2006 tour, know that it will be memorable evening.
25 july, start at 18:30
RADIO BURROUGHS (de) and TRANSLOLA(pl)-support
where:Kawiarnia Naukowa,st Jakuba 29-31, Kazimierz, tickets:10 pln

Krakow’s Jazz Night 18 july (sat)

18.00 – 23.00 “My polish heart” – concert Władysława “Adzika” Sendeckiego:
Mały Rynek (smaller square adjacent to Main Square)

18.00 – 22.00   -  Charis Ioannou Trio, Harry Sokal Trio, Joe McPhee – Mikołaj Trzaska Duo, Adam Pierończyk
Plac Wolnica (Kazimierz)

19.00 – 21.00 – Gmach Muzeum Narodowego, Aleje Mickiewicza, concert/happening- Marek Bałata with band “Śpiewobrazy”
where: National Museum, Al.Mickiewicza

22-02 concerts at clubs
Kawończyk/Mazur/Górka Trio- Piec Art, Sławkowska St. 10
Aleksandra Tomaszewska Quintet-Harris Piano Jazz Bar. Main Square 28
Ślusarczyk/Skolik/Kupiec Trio-Piwnica Pod Baranami, Main Square 38
Muniak&Friends- U Muniaka, Floriańska St
Harry Sokal Trio & Duo Trzaska/McPhee -alchemia club corner Estery and Plac Nowy (Kazimierz)
Charis Ioannou  Trio-Drukarnia, Nadwislańska 1 (Podgóze)

Marillion’s massive popularity in Poland certainly plays a big part in
the bands continued existence.  This certainly hasn’t been lost on
vocalist and frontman Steve Hogarth who is bringing his latest solo
tour to Poland.  H Natural is Hogarth’s solo project and it consists
of Steve on Piano pouring his heart out and playing a mix of songs
from his career as a solo artist and of course from Marillion and
earlier bands. Another element of H Natural is that Steve tells
stories about the songs and also gives anecdotes from his many years
on the road.  The concert will be intimate and relaxed which may be a
surprise for you hardcore Marillion fans out there. One of the other
unique  aspects of Marillion that has helped them build and maintain
their legions of loyal fans is their innovative website and direct
online interaction. In keeping with this tradition, H Natural is
recording every show of the tour and posting them on its website -
www.h-tunes.com – for free download.  So if you come to the concert…
don’t yell anything you might regret;)

20 June

Rotunda
Oleandry 1
start: 20.00
entry (advance):  130 PLN

— Many thanks to Thymn Chase for text. -–

8 April 2009

The Toasters perform in Imbir Klub

At 20.00 on Wednesday night you can see the fantastic New York Ska band The Toasters (2-tone ska since 1981!) perform at Imbir Klub on Tomasza. They’re stopping by Kraków as part of a massive tour of Europe, joined by the Chicago-based ska soul band Deal’s Gone Bad. What the hell are these guys doing in Kraków? Find out for 35 Złoty (25 if you buy your ticket in advance).

photo by madmonk

9 Jan(fri)

>>Jamal, start at 20:00
Jamal is one of the most popular reggae and dancehall group in Poland.
They cooperate with bands like Managga, Tumbao Riddim Band or Bakshish.
Jamla in most cases is a duo: Miód and Łukasz Borowiecki
where: club Żaczek, 3 Maja st. 5 (next to main building of national museum).

http://www.myspace.com/jamalreggae

17 sept (wed)

>>Sacrum Profanum Festival, concerts
19:00
Heiner  – Herakles 2, Befreiung, La Jalousie, Samplersuite
Asko|Schönberg
Hans Leenders – dyrygent
where: Technical Museum of Krakow (Muzeum Inżynieri Miejskiej),Wawrzyńca st. 15
22:00
Karlheinz Stockhausen – Adieu, Zeitmasze, Gesang der Jünglinge, Kontakte
London Sinfonietta
David Atherton – dyrygent
where:where: Schindler’s Factory, Lipowa St. 4
tickets:50/35zł
more aout the festival>>here

20 Mar

>Jeff & Adam (krk, B), concert, 20:00

Jeff and Adam friands of ours are playng the first concert in Krakow.

Jeff at MySpace

where: Fisher Pub ul. Grodzka 42

14 Mar

>Don’t Ask Smingus (?), concert , 20:00

Don’t Ask Smingus plays today at Cafe Szafe to celebrate the arrival of Dingus…If you don’t know , then don’t ask

Indie / folk-funk / blues

where: Cafe Szafe, Felicjanek 10