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Performances: Vladislav Bláha American Tour

April 19, 2013 By: peterv Category: Performances

Internationally renowned Czech guitarist Vladislav Bláha, an inspiration to musicians, will present a concert as part of his American tour. He will perform classical and international guitar masterworks at the Saint Paul Public Library.

Vladislav Bláha studied at the Brno Conservatoire with Arnost Sadlik before going to the F.Liszt College of Music in Weimar, Germany, where he graduated as a student of Roland Zimmer.In 2004 he received Doctor of Arts degree after study on the Academy of Music in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2009 he got docent of guitar on Janacek Academy of Music, Brno. Masterclasses with Costas Cotsiolis, Abel Carlevaro and, with the aid of British Council Fellowship, study in England with Gordon Crosskey (Royal Northern College of Music) and John W.Duarte in London completed his formal learning.

When: Sunday, April 21st, 2:00p.m.

Where: Saint Paul Public Central Library, 90 West Fourth Street, Saint Paul, MN

 

Visit http://vlblaha.sky.cz for more information about Vladislav Bláha and his music.

Performances: Vladislav Blaha

March 17, 2013 By: peterv Category: Performances

 

Concert: Vaclav Blaha

Performances: SlovCzech Concert at Black Dog Coffee and Wine Bar

February 23, 2013 By: peterv Category: Performances

SlovCzech brings you the sounds of eastern and central europe by taking traditional folk songs and reformulating them into modern high-energy melodic sounds. We play many Czech, Slovak, and gypsy flavored songs. You might even notice a few celtic inspired tunes in our playlist. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself temped to dance. Come join us for a night of culture and fun!

When: Saturday, February 23, 2013 at 8:00PM
Where: The Black Dog Coffee and Wine Bar, 308 Prince St, St Paul, MN 55101, USA


Source: http://blackdogstpaul.com/events/news-348.shtml

Performances: SlovCzech at Schmitt Music Edina

March 30, 2012 By: peterv Category: Performances

Join us for a FREE performance by local folk rock band Slovczech, featuring Schmitt Music Edina teacher Aurora Adamson.

Thursday, April 12 at 7pm – Schmitt Music Edina

SLOVCZECH is a group of musicians, who love to share joy of Central and Eastern European folk music. The band started in 2008 in Minneapolis. It initially focused on dance music, which would serve Czech and Slovak communities in Midwest US. Click HERE for more information about the band.

Performances: Meet and Support Local Band

February 17, 2012 By: peterv Category: Performances

SLOVCZECH is a group of musicians, who love to share joy of Central and Eastern European folk music. The band started in 2008 here in Minneapolis. It initially focused on dance music, which would serve Czech and Slovak communities in Midwest US.

Gradually, the band profiled into more concert oriented, modern sounding folk rock formation, heavily influenced by central european bands Cechomor, Dikanda and Kroke.

SLOVCZECH currently features:

SLOVCZECH

Aurora Adamson
- fiddle, mandolin and vocal

Petr Bachan
- guitar, keyboards and vocal

Jozef Klobusnik
- accordion and vocal

Lubor Manolov
- guitar and vocal

 

 

SLOVCZECH band also regularly features children from Czech and Slovak families, who play and sing during occasions – St. Nicholas, Christmas and Easter.

During last 3 years, SLOVCZECH performed several times at  Festival of Nations, St. Paul, MN; Minnesota Sokol Days; Dozinky Days in New Prague,MN; Cedar Rapid BrewNost and Milwaukee Sokol. SLOVCZECH also  performed solo concerts at Harriet Lake Band Shell as a part of Twin Cities Music in the Park summer series.

SLOVCZECH will be performing in March during new Edina Schmitt music opening and it may be also occasionaly seen playing at some of Twin City venues.

Come and join us to support this great local band!

Performances: From the Insect World By Josef and Karel Čapek

December 23, 2011 By: peterv Category: Performances

This eloquent play is an activist fantasy, first produced at the National Art Theater of Prague justafter World War I. Its darkly comic view of the modern world travels well into the 21st Century. Come observe the Čapek brothersʼ millennium bugs, as they demonstrate their tiny sexualtensions, their miniscule materialism, and their microscopic machines of war. The performance is presented under the sponsorship of the Czech and Slovak Cultural Center of Minnesota, and it is dedicated to the memory of Vaclav Havel.

When: Saturday, January 7th, 2012, at 7:30PM

Where: Whiting Proscenium Theater, Rarig Center at the University of Minnesota, 330 21st Ave S.,Minneapolis

Tickets:$10 adults / $5 seniors, students and children. Purchase online at any time HERE.

or

by phone: 612-624-2345 starting on January 3rd, 2012.

Performances: The World We Live In by Joseph and Karel Capek

December 08, 2011 By: peterv Category: Performances

Czech and Slovak Cultural Center would like to invite you to The World We Live In (The Insect Comedy) by Joseph and Karel Capek.

The Insect Comedy, by Josef and Karel Capek, is an activist fantasy, first produced at the National Art Theater of Prague in the period just following World War 1. Its darkly comic view of the modern world has traveled well into the 21stCentury. Come observe the Capek brothersʼ millennium bugs, as they demonstrate their tiny sexual tensions, their miniscule materialism, and their microscopic machines of war.

When: December 7, 8, 9, 10, 2011 at 7:30 PM

Where: Black Box Theater, Arts High School
6125 Olson Memorial Highway, Golden Valley, MN 55422

Tickets: Adults (College students and older) $8; Youth & Seniors (Seniors 62 years and older, Children and students through 12thgrade) $5. Perpich Alumni $5. Current Perpich students and staff, free.Tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis. We encourage patrons to arrive no later than 30 minutes prior to showtime.

Visit http://www.mcae.k12.mn.us/2011_2012_AHS_Performance_Calendar.pdf for more information.

Performances: Druha Trava Celebrates 20th Anniversary

October 10, 2011 By: peterv Category: Performances

Acoustic Folk Rock from the Czech Republic

Who: The legendary “Czechgrass” band Druha Trava
What: The Band’s 20th Anniversary, a Month-Long U.S. Tour, New CD in English
When: mid October to mid November 2011 (click for schedule details)
Minnesota Schedule:

- Oct 13 2011, Park Rapids (MN), Park Rapids Area High School Auditorium, 401 Huntsinger Ave, 7PM

Oct 16 2011, Zumbrota (MN), Crossings at Carnegie, 320 East Avenue, 7PM (Benji Flaming opening)

Nov 18-20, 2011 Minneapolis (MN), MBOTMA’s Harvest Jam Festival Marriott Minneapolis West, 9960 Wayzata Blvd., St. Louis Park

 

– Druha Trava will be available for radio, TV and webcast performance

– Robert Krestan, Lubos Malina and Ruth Ellen Gruber will be available for interviews

Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the legendary Czech band Druha Trava returns to the United States for a month-long tour starting Oct. 13, 2011. Highlight will be the launch of Shuttle to Bethlehem — DT’s first-ever CD to mostly feature English- language versions of singer/ songwriter/ frontman Robert Krestan’s iconic songs.

 

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Concerts: SLOVCZECH at Lake Harriet Bandshell

August 22, 2011 By: peterv Category: Performances

Czech and Slovak Cultural Center of Minnesota would like to invite you to SLOVCZECH concert on Sunday, August 28th, 2011 at Lake Harriet Bandshell.  The concert is from 5:30pm to 7:00pm.

 

SLOVCZECH is a local band playing Slovak, Czech, and European folk music arranged in modern rock arrangements. Their music is similar to Varttina, Ukranians, Orkestar Bez Ima, and other modern European folk bands. Using fiddle, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, accordion, and sequencer result in a blend of folk and rock&roll, that is full of energy and drive.

During the 1 and ½ hour long concert, you will be able to dance, sing, or simply enjoy this great band and taste of great Czech, Slovak and European modern folk music.

Call your friends, families and music lovers and please come to support SLOVCZECH if you are in Twin Cities area.  The concert if free.

Performances: A Terezín Cabaret

May 24, 2011 By: peterv Category: Performances

Benefit preview performances of Why We Laugh: A Terezín Cabaret

June 2, 2011 (St. Paul) and June 5, 2011 (Minneapolis), 2011

by Kira Obolensky, director Hayley Finn, composer Craig Harris, translator and dramaturg Lisa Peschel featuring Julie Kurtz, Elise Langer, Ryan Lindberg and Skyler Nowinski based on an original cabaret by Felix Porges, Vítězslav Horpatzky, Pavel Weisskopf and Pavel Stránský

Thursday, June 2, 2011 at 7:30 pm

The C.S.P.S. Sokol Hall

383 Michigan Street

St. Paul, Minnesota 55102

 

Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 7:00 pm

The Loring Theater

1407 Nicollet Avenue South

Minneapolis, MN 55403

 

Suggested donation $25; additional contributions welcome! For reservations please call 917-397-6345.

Step in Time Theater is raising funds to stage the world premiere of Why We Laugh: A Terezín Cabaret in the Czech Republic! Please join us for our benefit preview performances.

Why We Laugh is a new adaptation of Laugh With Us!, a cabaret written and performed in 1944 in the World War II Jewish Ghetto at Terezín (in German, Theresienstadt), just 40 miles northwest of Prague. The cabaret, complete with its original sheet music, came to light in the spring of 2005 in two separate family archives. The original cabaret is set in a postwar Prague identical to the beloved city the Czech Jews remembered from the late 1930s. In playwright Kira Obolensky’s new adaptation, characters based on the original Terezín performers encounter “the scholar,” a theater historian from our present. As the performers look forward to the postwar future and the scholar looks back toward their past, they confront each other with difficult questions: why did the Terezín prisoners laugh, and what does that laughter mean to us today?

The world premiere of Why We Laugh will take place in Terezín on June 15, 2011 and the performance will be featured in the Nine Gates Festival of Czech-German-Jewish Culture in Prague on June 18, 2011. For more information please see:
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/pesc0029/lisapeschel/why-we-laugh.html

If you would like to support us but can’t attend the benefit performances, please see:
http://givemn.razoo.com/story/Why-We-Laugh

For the latest information on the benefit performances please see:
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/pesc0029/lisapeschel/benefit-performances-of-why-we-laugh.html

Why We Laugh is a sponsored project of Springboard for the Arts.