Helping Ukraine: Narva, Gęsia Skórka, Cynamonowa Kaczka, Kasa Chorych

Ukraine needs our support now. We strongly encourage you to participate in a charity concert during which local bands will play and the profits from which will be donated to our needy neighbors!

March 13, 2022, 17:00
Forum cinema, 5 Legionowa Street
tickets: donation no less than 30 PLN

Narva
The band was founded in 2009 by Wojtek Świętochowski and Dawid Juszkiewicz. They perform music on the border of rock, folk and ska, in Belarusian, Ukrainian and Polish. In 2012, they took third place at the Ukrainian Festival “Z Podlaskiej Krynicy” in Bielsk Podlaski, and a year later, second place at the 20th Festival of Belarusian Music in Białystok. In 2013, Narva released their debut album “Krynyczeńka”, which featured Ukrainian folk songs in a folk-rock arrangement.

Gęsia Skórka Blues Band was founded in 2014, but they made their debut a year later. They have been playing blues and its derivatives since the very beginning. In their repertoire they have their own compositions and the most famous blues covers.The band consists of a mix of routine, youth, and passion. Tadeusz Dziemski, participating in the Białystok music life since 1960s, and Dariusz Chociej, cooperating with numerous musicians since 1980s, are the most experienced band members. Janusz Nowosiak, who was a drummer for years and recently plays the harmonica most of the time, has equally rich stage experience.Strong-voiced vocalist Katarzyna Antosiewicz, singing blues instinctively and feeling great on stage, and drummer Marcin Markiewicz, with solid background and extensive instrumental experience, are the band’s representatives of the younger generation. The band is completed by Marek Gąsiorowski, a lover of blues and guitar and a long-time journalist of the Polish Radio Białystok.The fact that the band works perfectly is proved by receiving the first prize at the blues bands competition at the Blues Bazar 2017 festival in Otwock.

Cynamonowa Kaczka
As they say, they were gathered by their love of music and performing it professionally. They want to change the habits of the Polish audience to small, “cost-effective” blues bands. Large, ten-person, band gives them tremendous interpretative and arranging opportunities. It was supposed to be a one-off project in memory of the late Jurek Opalinski, but the pressure of the public made the musicians keep meeting and start working on their first album.

Kasa Chorych
The undisputed legend of Polish blues-rock, one of the most important bands in the history of Polish music (not only blues). The band was founded in 1975 by Ryszard “Skiba” Skibiński, who played the harmonica, and the guitarist Jarosław Tioskow. It was thanks to them that in the mid-1980s Polish blues gained a new, fresh dimension and received an injection of invigorating energy, which made young people also interested in blues, and blues music resounded at the most important rock festivals in Poland. After the tragic death of “Skiba” in 1983, the band suspended its activities. It was only in 1992 that the musicians, led by Jarosław Tioskow, re-banded. In 2017, after more than 40 years of playing, the band Kasa Chorych announced the end of its activity. However, the love of music and playing together means that the artists continue to meet on stage.