We Remember ’44. My Insurgent Song Book – Warsaw Sentimental Orchestra

Białystok City Mayor Tadeusz Truskolaski and the Białystok Cultural Centre have the pleasure of inviting you to a concert on the occasion of Warsaw Uprising anniversary:

We Remember ’44. My Insurgent Song Book:
Warsaw Sentimental Orchestra

August 1st, 2019, 7 PM
Kościuszki Square
free entry

Warsaw Sentimental Orchestra is a band with a taste for old melodies of the beginning of the 20th century in Poland. They perform songs of the biggest composers and singers of that time – Adam Aston, Wiera Gran, Mieczysław Fogg, Henryk Wars, Karol Rostworowski, and Henryk Gold. Emotional waltzes, passionate tangos, lively polkas, exhilarating foxtrots, rumbas, and slow-foxes of the interwar period and post-war times are their biggest inspirations. They intent to preserve the style and timeless charm of those melodies while adding their own hint of a modern musical sensitivity.

They debuted at the Polish Radio Folk Festival ‘Nowa Tradycja’ in 2015. A year after, thanks to the involvement of their fans on a crowdfunding theybsite odpalprojekt.pl and the support of Polish Radio 2, their first album “Umówmy się na dziś” came out.

In May 2017 out debut album received the third prize in the Folk Album of the Year competition (Folkowy Fonogram Roku) organized by Polish Radio Folk Center at the Polish Radio Folk Festival ‘Nowa Tradycja’, as theyll as the Wirualne Gęśle Folk Album of the Year Award in which the winner is chosen by public vote.

The dance repertoire of the interwar period is their endless stheirce of inspiration. Therefore they try to explore it as regularly as possible. Their second album “Tańcz, mój złoty” came out in 2017. The official premiere in a form of a vintage dance party was held at the old banking house of Wilhelm Landau at Senatorska Street in Warsaw.

Their discography is growing dynamically. Two months after the premiere of “Tańcz, mój złoty” their Christmas album “Śpiewnik kolędowy” appeared. They arranged and recorded old repertoire in the style of the prewar recordings, while at the same time looking for inspiration in Polish traditional music. They wanted their carols to accompany families in their shared Christmas celebration.

Band members:
Gabriela Mościcka – vocals, accordion
Lena Nowak – clarinet, trumpet
Kazimierz Nitkiewicz – trumpet
Mateusz Kowalski – percussion, vocals
Jakub Fedak – vibraphone
Łukasz Owczynnikow – double bass
Krzysztof Baranowski – mandolin, guitar