Oct 11 & 12 at 8pm
Special Family/Kids Concert Oct 12 - 130pm $12/$8
"..restlessly exuberant and unabashedly romantic" - Monica Kendrick, Chicago Reader
"Dikanda is a phenomenon, it is a fact. On the one hand furiously making us dance, on the other reflect deeply. One may say that it seems joyful but still referring to deeper layers of sensitivity. Polish but how global and universal" - Pawel Tryba, Devla Devla
DIKANDA is honest, fiery world music played straight from the heart.
$30 (Students); $35 (Adults). $40 at door
10/11/19 - 10/12/19
8pm
"Dikanda is about this expression of death and birth, longing and loneliness. Our concerts are not something set apart from the rest of life. People in the audience may not understand what we sing, but theyll often break into tears. Or into wild dancing". - Anna Witczak, singer, accordionist and group founder
Dikanda is a world music internationally renowned band from Szczecin, Poland. In its artistic work Dikanda promotes the authenticity of style, searching for new trends, thus most of their works are original compositions.
Dikanda draws its musical inspiration from traditional folk sounds of the broadly defined Orient -- from the Balkans, through Israel, Kurdistan, Belarus to India. Their works are dominated by the Balkan and Gypsy influences.
The band has been playing together since 1997 and have performed hundreds of concerts, mostly in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland but also in Russia, India and the USA.
Dikanda has won numerous awards including:
First Prize Polish Radio Festival of New Music "New Tradition"
First Prize Eurofolk Festival
Montreux Jazz Festival
Polish Song Festival
Szigeti Festival - Budapest
1st Prize and Audience Award - Folkherbstfestival
Folk Phonogram of the Year - III Prize for album Jakhana Jakhana
Disc of the Year award "Ushtijo" by German magazine Folker
Performers
Dominik Bienczycki; Szymon Bobrowski; Katarzyna Bogusz; Anna Czerniawska; Daniel Kaczmarczyk; Grzegorz Kolbrecki; Dariusz Puk and Piotr Rejdak
Tags: Music, Polish, , 2019