Saturday, March 16 – Wednesday, April 17

Ancien Cinéma, Vianden

Photo exhibition by Raymond Clement (LU)
Family of Polish Jazz

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Family of Polish Jazz is part of a greater project of Clement's Family of Jazz, a documentary of the most important jazz events in Europe over the last 40 years.

Raymond Clement began his jazz photographs adventure in 1970, having been inspired by Duke Ellington’s concert in Wiltz (Luxembourg). He has had his first exhibition of 150 jazz photos in the Town Hall of Place Stanislas during Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival in 1975. Since then, the Family of Jazz collection only grew, having been constantly supplemented with new works. The exhibition was booked by the biggest photo galleries in Paris, Brussels, New York and Berlin. Currently, part of his collection of photographs is presented in the Abbaye de Neumünster in Luxembourg City.

Part of this project, called Family of Polish Jazz, is dedicated exclusively to Polish jazz musicians. Over many years, and since as early as the 70s, Raymond Clement has been documenting concerts at the Warsaw Jazz Jamboree festivals, as well as smaller projects throughout Poland. He photographed Polish jazz masters: Tomasz Stańko, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Zbigniew Seifert, Michał Urbaniak. That has turned into a unique collection of photographs of Polish jazz musicians that has never – on its own – been presented before to the public.

www.family-of-jazz.com

Raymond Clement:

“To see is to hear...” Larry Nylund wrote in large letters in the Reno Evening Gazette when describing the exposition at the University of Nevada: “The Family of Jazz” — a unique collection of pictures by Raymond Clement from the jazz world.

The first great event was the legendary Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1970 in Wiltz, Luxembourg. Since then the collection has been traveling throughout the world. Since 1980, in his photographs of nature and of landscapes, and with his professional 4’x5’, 8‘x10’ and panoramic cameras, Raymond Clement has transformed the early “to see is to hear” into “to see is to feel” (during which time he switched from black-andwhite to colour, and then into digital photography). He owes his international success to his nearness to nature, which he not only can see but also hear and feel: with sensitivity he translates nature’s unique vibrations, signs and sounds into images that are now visible to others.

www.raymondclement.com

Thursday, April 11, 19.00

CCR Abbaye de Neumünster (Agora) – Luxembourg

Official opening of the Festival

Thursday, April 11, 20.00

CCR Abbaye de Neumünster (Salle Robert Krieps) – Luxembourg

Opening concert
jazz

Susana Raya – vocal, guitar (ES), Michał Tokaj – piano (PL), Marc Demuth – double bass (LU), Sebastian Frankiewicz – drums (PL)

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For some, it might be difficult to imagine a jazz band composed of a Spanish singer/guitarist, a Polish piano player, a Polish drummer and a Luxembourgish double bass player. Susana Raya and Michał Tokaj met in Żory at International Jazz Days for Singing Musicians Voicingers. In 2012 Marc Demuth (double bass), Michał Tokaj (piano), Sebastian Frankiewicz (drums) were invited to accompany finalists of the competition, while Susana Raya, one of the finalists of the 2010 edition, taught at the workshop coinciding with the competition and festival Voicingers. A great musical complicity between Susana and Michał gave birth to this joint project which had its opening at the Festival in Żory in 2012. Choice of a rhythm section was easy – Sebastian and Marc know each other for years and belong to the most demanded jazz musicians in their countries. The program will combine the band’s own compositions and some rearranged jazz standards. This special rhythmical feel and energy of a Mediterranean soul find the right balance with the landscapes and spacious atmosphere of an East European poet of the piano.

Susana Raya: Earth            Susana Raya: Liberacion

Friday, April 12, 19.00

Ancien Cinéma, Vianden

Finissage of the photo exhibition of Raymond Clement
Family of Polish Jazz

Friday, April 12, 21.00

Ancien Cinéma, Vianden

DJ Meetin’ – DJ Papa Zura (PL), DJ Burn Reynolds (PL) & DJ Brave (LU)

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DJ BRAVE

DJ, musician and dancer. In music business since 1990, starting with DJ parties in different places in West Europe (Spain, Germany, Luxembourg). Member of different bands “Mike M.C. and the Lyrical Force” as a drummer and dancer, “chaos am re” percussionist, guitarists and singer, “Catharsis” singer, percussionist and didgeridoo player, “Ethnolution”, singer and drummer. Since 2007 member of “The Real Time Spiners”. DJ Brave is also a teacher in different institutions in Luxembourg (Pop Music Academy, A.P.E.M.H. and Red Cross), doing workshops in didgeridoo, basic lessons in guitar and courses in percussion (latin percussion, djembe and udu). He works a lot with children.

BURN REYNOLDS [PL]

Veteran club and radio DJ, theatrical music arranger; known for his own radio shows, member of the DJ collective Soul Service, with whom he released Polish Funk compilation series with Polish dance music from 60s and 70s. DJ Burn Reynolds plays eclectic mix from soul, funk and disco to rock, jazz and psychedelic sounds all ending.

PAPA ZURA [PL]

Polish DJ and a member of the Soul Service collective. He is a co-authors of the “Polish Funk” record series (released in collaboration with the Polish record Label Polskie Nagrania) including “Why Not Samba” and “Off Season” albums. DJ Papa Zura plays raw funk, afro, soul and rhythm’n’blues records.

SOUL SERVICE

Funk, soul and jazz is the music created to dance and lays beneath all modern dance music. Yet, it is not very popular among the DJs and you can not very often hear it in a club. Poland is not different from the rest of the world - too many pulp DJs following fashions and much too less real music in the clubs. So it was very lucky that four of the most funkiest and musically enhanced Polish DJs met to create a very special collective to promote good vibes to clubs of Poland. For almost 10 years, they have been entertaining parties on their own. So it was very natural to unite and promote under single name: Soul Service.

In search for the best funky tunes, the Soul Service looked into the most secret stash – the old studio of Polish records. For years, they’ve been searching in second hand shops, flea markets and granny’s wardrobes to find Polish record influenced by funk. Soul Service wishes to reveal the power of their homeland beats to the rest of the world. This is the concept behind the “Polish Funk” compilation, brought to the world in cooperation with the Polish oldest record label still on the market – Polskie Nagrania.

www.soulservice.pl

Saturday, April 13 – Sunday, April 14

INECC – Luxembourg

Workshop in traditional Polish chant

led by Magda Sobczak and Sylwia Świątkowska of Warsaw Village Bandin cooperation with INECC Luxembourg

Saturday, April 13, 21.00

Centre Culturel Tramsschapp – Luxembourg

Warsaw Village Band
(Folk music concert)

Event information: Warsaw Village Band

“Traditional Polish songs, with their cutting vocals and meshed fiddles are the foundation of Warsaw Village Band's repertory. But while their lineup is primarily acoustic – hand drums, hammered dulcimer, violins, cello – their sensibilities are modern. They hear dance-club drive and trance echoes in the songs and they use recording studio techniques to heighten the central drones and eerie percussive sounds in their songs. Hints of reggae and guests like a scratching disc jockey should further infuriate purists.”

The New York Times

The Warsaw Village Band is the best known worldwide Polish folk group. During the 15 years of its career, it has already toured in all the continents. In Luxembourg, the group performed for the first time in 2007 at the Kulturfabrik. The following year, at the Neumünster Abbey they gave the final concert closing the first Festival of Polish Culture. This year, the band will appear in Tramsschapp on Saturday 13th April, in the framework of the third edition of this festival.

Warsaw Village Band: Zagrajcie muzykanty
Warsaw Village Band: Baba w piekle
Warsaw Village Band: Zurawie
Warsaw Village Band: Rybicka

Event information: Workshop of Polish traditional folk songs

Folk songs have a thousand-year long history in Poland. They include not only those sang in the country but also tunes that inspired great composers, such as Chopin, Szymanowski or Lutoslawski. The singing is usually accompanied by truly unique Polish folk instruments, like dulcimer or “suka” (Płock fiddle), and they are performed using a special vocal technique called in Polish “śpiewokrzyk” (“white voice”). Participants of this workshop will have an exclusive opportunity to learn the technique of “śpiewokrzyk”, which according to research can also improve one’s performance in other singing styles. It is probably one of the best singing methods teaching to control one's breathing while at the same time keeping perfect command of one’s vocal cords.

During the workshop, the leaders of the Warsaw Village Band – Magdalena Sobczak and Sylwia Świątkowska – will not only teach you their vocal techniques but also accompany the songs playing traditional Polish instruments. The workshop will end on Sunday April 14 with a concert during which the participants will perform on stage together with the band. In addition, all the participants will receive a free ticket for the group’s main concert on April 13. Don’t miss this opportunity to listen and sing together with us in Polish!

The workshop will take place in Polish and English. Upon request, for those who wish to participate but speak neither English nor Polish, a simultaneous translation into French will be provided.

INECC Luxembourg
European Institute of Choral Singing

INECC plays an important role in developing the musical and choral life of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It pursues its goals by collaborating with the Ministry of Culture and the City of Luxembourg along with choir associations, general and special education providers and music organisations.
INECC’s activities involve a number of areas:

• a resource centre serving the public and a range of institutional, political and cultural partners and associates (providing advice and information, engaging in research, holding meetings, etc.)
• support for amateur choir singers practising alone or in a group (providing information, advice, training, etc.)
• further professional training for teachers at conservatoires and music schools, musicians performing at schools, choir directors, singers, music teachers in secondary schools, staff at nurseries and community centres, etc.

INECC is the link between amateurs and professionals, providing them with information (through newsboards, guidance and advice), offering support (through a nationwide presence), acting as a think-tank and a platform for cooperation (through its experience in organising cultural events). Its role is to promote choral singing and to improve the quality of amateur choirs, to spread and broaden knowledge of all musical genres and repertoires, to facilitate the creative process and to encourage visiting artists, innovative initiatives, dialogue of cultures, etc.

Develop skills, stimulate artistic flair, build the future by focusing on children and youth – inspiring their musical sensitivity early on in life.
These are the objectives and missions that INECC sets for itself.

Let our voices be heard through our singing!

Sunday, April 14, 17.00

CCR Abbaye de Neumünster (Agora) – Luxembourg

INECC workshop closing concert
Concert of workshop participants with Warsaw Village Band

Sunday, April 14, 19.30

Notre Dame Cathedral – Luxembourg

Concert of Polish and Luxembourgish sacred music
Chorus of the Warsaw St. Florian’s Cathedral Musica Sacra (PL) and Chorus salicti (LU)

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La chorale Musica Sacra

Musica Sacra Choir was founded in 2002. Since 2004 it has functioned as the choir of the Warsaw-Praga Cathedral. Working closely with several artistic agencies, MUSICA SACRA has taken part in numerous prestigious events including the Festival of Polish Culture in Italy, the Festival des Cathedrales in France, Wratislavia Cantans, Laboratory of Contemporary Music in Warsaw and the ‘Gaude Mater’ International Festival of Sacred Music in Częstochowa. Recent highlights have included a series of performances of the jazz chorale setting of Stabat Mater, with the participation of the outstanding Polish jazz pianist Włodek Pawlik. After a series of 16 concerts in Poland, the work was performed at the Santa Maria in Trastevere Basilica in Rome during the Polish Cultural Festival and released on the choir’s debut CD, which was dedicated to Pope John Paul II and received the prestigious “Fryderyk” award of the Polish recording industry (2005). Two other CDs by Musica Sacra also won “Fryderyk” awards: Liebeslieder-Walzer featuring music by Brahms and Mendelssohn (MSE 002, with the Ravel Piano Duo and the pianist Marcin Łukaszewski) and Masterpieces of Choral Music (MSE 003, a selection of works by Górecki, Kilar, Tavener, Pärt and Vasks). The Choir’s latest CD is a live recording of Marian Borkowski’s Dies Irae, with the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Piotr Borkowski, during a concert at the Witold Lutosławski Polish Radio Concert Hall in November 2006 (MSE 011). MUSICA SACRA has given first performances of works by Stanisław Moryto, Joël Merah (France), Boris Alvarado (Chile) and Daniel Luzko (Paraguay). The ensemble’s honours include the Award of the town of St Quentin (for the best performance of a contemporary work) at the Concours Europeen de Choeurs et Maitrises de Cathedrales in France (2006). At the beginning of 2007 the choir was invited by the Paderewski Symphony Orchestra to take part in the performances of Stanisław Moniuszko’s The Haunted Manor at the Rosemont Theatre in Chicago.

Paweł Łukaszewski
Born in 1968, he is a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where he studied the cello and composition (with Marian Borkowski). He also finished the School for Arts Management at the University in Poznań and a postgraduate course in choral conducting at the Music Academy in Bydgoszcz. In 2000 he received a Ph.D. in composition. His honours include First Prize at the Warsaw Music Academy Competition (1994), Second Prize at the 2nd Young Composers’ Forum in Kraków (1994), Second Prize at the Adam Didur Competition in Sanok (1996), and Second Prize at the 27th International “Florilege Vocal de Tours” Competition in France (1998). He won the “Fryderyk” Award of the Polish Phonographic Academy in the vocal music category (2005) and the Award of the town of St Quentin (for the best performance of a contemporary work) at the Concours Européen de Chœurs et Maitrises de Cathedrales (2006). He has received the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1998), the award of the Mayor of Częstochowa for outstanding compositional achievements (1995) and the Saint Brother Albert Chmielowski Award (2006). His works have been performed in all European countries, as well as in Argentine, Chile, China, Israel, Cuba, Canada, South Korea, Moldova, Peru, Uruguay and the United States. Over thirty of his pieces have been published in Poland (PWM Edition) and in Chester (UK). His discography includes over 100 CDs (DUX, Hyperion, Signum Records), He is on the faculty of the Department of Composition of the University of Music in Warsaw. He has worked as a visiting professor in Chile (2003, 2006) and Argentina (2006).

Chorus salicti

Chorus Salicti is a young, dynamic choir, founded in December 2010 by Marcin Wierzbicki, comprising singers with experience in both amateur and professional ensembles. In its short 2 year existence, Chorus Salicti has presented individual concerts (including carol concerts and a program of “Stabat Mater” fragments dating from the middle ages to the 20th century), taken part in a number of major orchestral and choral projects, including J.P. Kemmer’s “St John’s Passion” with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg in February 2012, and in June and July of the same year Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana” together with a choir from Consdorf and the Harmonie Municipale d’Echternach, while in December it took part in a grand gala concert in Metz Cathedral, marking the end of the Lorraine presidency of the Grand Region. This concert, under the baton of Jacky Locks, and with the participation of 3 other choirs, a symphony orchestra and soloists, comprised a series of “Hallelujahs” by composers such as Buxtehude, Bach, Handel, Mozart and Twardowski. Chorus Salicti was a finalist in the competition A vous de chanter organised by INECC in 2011 and the choir's rendition of PONP features on the associated CD.

Marcin Wierzbicki
Composer, conductor, tenor and countertenor, studied composition at the F. Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw, obtaining a first-class honours degree in 1993, while earning the title of Doctor of Arts from the same establishment in 2004. He is the founder of Chorus salicti, as well as an active member for the last 3 years of Luxembourg’s Hoquetus Ensemble – a group of vocal soloists specialising in ancient music. Marcin Wierzbicki also conducts several other Luxembourgish choirs including the Bourscheid Chorale Ste Cecile and the Steeëner Sangerfrënn. With his ensembles, he presents a few dozen concerts every year, ranging from masses and church / state ceremonies, through performances at a range of cultural events in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (incl. “Tour des Melodies”, “Veianer Bicherfest” and “Festival Medieval de Vianden”), to large projects and concerts involving other vocal and instrumental ensembles. Marcin Wierzbicki is also organiser of cultural events in the Grand Duchy such as the Festival of Polish Culture and 5 editions of the CinEast film festival. In 2011, for his contribution to the promotion of Polish Culture abroad, Marcin Wierzbicki was awarded the “Gloria Artis” silver medal by the Polish Ministry of Culture.

In cooperation with

Wednesday, April 17, 20.00

Philharmonie (Chamber Music Hall) – Luxembourg

Beata Szałwińska Aconcagua Project (PL/LU)
Part I: Piano pieces by Polish and Luxembourgish composers
Part II: A. Piazzola Aconcagua Concerto

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Beata SZALWINSKA, pianiste

Beata SZALWINSKA, a Polish pianist who gained an international fame, graduate of the Music Academy in Warsaw, stipendist of the French government – she has been studying at the Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris. Currently she lives and creates as a soloist in Luxembourg ( for many years she has been cooperating with professor Ryszard Karczykowski). She is the founder of the “Aconcagua Project” which is combined inter alia with the musicians of the Luxembourg National Philharmonic Orchestra and bandoneónist – Gilberto Pereyra and cimbalonist – Tatiana Eletskaja.

The artist at the beginning of the 2012 released her second record with the world premiere of the new version of Astor Piazzolla’s “Aconcagua Concerto”. The project was made thanks to the cooperation of Aconcagua Project with a new concert hall Kinneksbond in Mamer (Luxembourg). It had inaugurated its activity and became its living card. The international premiere of the “Aconcagua Project – Astor Piazzolla” album was considered by the music critics from the whole world as one of the most remarkable, important and expressive homage to Astor Piazzolla!

As part of the concert “Beata Szałwińska’s – Aconcagua Project” on the 3rd Festival of the Polish Culture we shall hear not only nine of the Karol Szymanowski’s Preludes op.1, Claude Lenners’ piece entitled Alba, but also Astor Piazzolla’s Aconcagua Concerto, which was specially orchestrated for the solo pianoforte and sextet for Beata Szałwińska (Originally written for the bandoneon and orchestra). We are also going to hear some pieces, played by the Argentinian bandeonist Gilberto Pereyra.

Beata Szalwinska: Aconcagua Concerto. part 1
Beata Szalwinska: Aconcagua Concerto. part 2
Beata Szalwinska: Piazzola. Milonga sin Palabras

Thursday, April 18, 20.00

”Ancien Cinéma” – Vianden

Marathon of Polish and Luxembourgish films

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Frozen Stories / Opowieści z chłodni
Dir. Grzegorz Jaroszuk
PL, 2011, 27 min, VO ST ENG

A grotesque tale about the young girl and boy who work at the same supermarket. As the worst employees of the supermarket they have been ordered to find a purpose of their lives and in just two days start a better, brand new life. All of the sudden a popular television show aims to help them to complete the task.

www.polishshorts.pl/en/film_catalogue/fiction/1002/

Boo! / Muka
Dir. Kordian Kądziela
PL, 2012, 27 min, VO ST ENG

Josef is a forty year old man who hasn’t got many reasons to greet every morning with a smile on his face. He has had as many women in his life as friends that is none. His living space, consisting of his working place (a small cabin on parking) and a room in his mother’s flat, is no bigger than three square meters. The situation gets more complicated when, one day, he gets arrested by two strangers in unfashionable suits. „Boo!” is a bitter-sweet story, loosely based on Franz Kafka’s novel „Thetrial”.

www.polishshorts.pl/en/film_catalogue/fiction/1146/

Date-Lech
Dir. Michel Tereba, Georges Waringo
LU, 2009, 18 min, VO ST ENG

Lisi and Georges, two fresh singles attend a speed-dating event. Here they meet the most peculiar bunch of misfits. In the end the question that remains is: Do they even WANT another relationship?

www.podium.lu/video-newest/54-date-lech-virschau

De Bommeleeër
Dir. Michel Tereba
LU, 2008, 3 episodes 25 min, VO ST ENG

A contemporary slapstick comedy, containing hints to sometimes hidden sometimes hidden real events. The „Bommeleeër” (a mythic terrorist figure in Luxembourg history) returns to terrorize Luxembourg. Two cops, Mulles and Frunnes – both as smart as a stick – take him on. As the web of the Bommeleeër’s scheme untangles, we realize that what may seem wrong is sometimes right...

www.bommeleeer.lu

En cooperation avec

Saturday, April 20, à 18h00

Restaurant Nova Osada – Luxembourg

Presentation of the album “ITINERARY – Resonance” – reproductions of works by Elisabeth Calmes (LU) and a CD by Ignacy Frederik Heringa (PL-NL) inspired by paintings of E. Calmes. In presence of the artists.

Saturday, April 20, à 20.00

Restaurant Nova Osada – Luxembourg

Evening of Polish and Luxembourgish cuisine

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The book “Itinerary resonance: Luxembourg-Paris-Manhattan-Warsaw” reflects the artistic route of Elisabeth Calmes: from Luxembourg, where she was born, via Paris, where she lived and worked, then New York where she was painting for some time, and finally a recent short stay in Warsaw. The artist was brought to Poland by family and emotional ties with this country.

In 2012 the exhibition by Elisabeth Calmes “Itinerary-Luxembourg-Paris-Manhattan” was shown in Poland. On the occasion of the opening of this exhibition the music of a young Polish-Dutch composer Frederik Heringa was performed. This compostion – Itinerary-Luxembourg-Paris-Manhattan-Warsaw – was inspired by Calmes’ paintings and was specially composed for this opening. Inspired by this music, Elisabeth Calmes painted a series of small works on paper or canvas, with very different themes and techniques. The series “Résonnance” is a response to Frederik Heringa’s music which was inspired itself by the Calmes’ art. A true artistic dialogue has happened: “Itinerary-Résonnance”. But the paintings were also inspired by the tragic history of Poland, by the visits of the artist to the Warsaw Uprising Museum and the Chopin Museum, and her meetings with Poles. Having been initially so distant, Poland has penetrated Calmes’ paintings. “Itinerary-Résonnance”, accompanied by the composition of Frederik Heringa, was presented at the Festival de la Francophonie at the Embassy of Luxembourg in Warsaw.

Ignacy Frederik Heringa: Prologue
Ignacy Frederik Heringa: Luxembourg
Ignacy Frederik Heringa: Warszawa

Sunday, April 21, 20.00

CCR Abbaye de Neumünster (Salle Robert Krieps) – Luxembourg

Stanisław Soyka & Soyka Quintet+
and Hoquetus Ensemble (LU)

Evening of Polish and Luxembourgish sung poetry. This event is organised in cooperation with Printemps des Poètes.

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Stanislaw Soyka – singer, instrumentalist, composer – for years one of the greatest artists of the Polish music scene. He writes and sings songs about love and its absence, about longing and irreversibility of events. He doesn’t avoid the great issues of the day either. He’s released more than 35 albums, several of which to multi – platinum audiences. He’s never followed the fashion and trends, and instead he’s developed his own musical language, which made him an artists, whose style is recognisable from the first sounds and the wealth of repertoire can give vertigo.

At the Spring Festival of Poets Festival in Luxembourg Soyka will perform a collection of songs he composed to poems of Polish poets such as: Czesław Miłosz, Wisława Szymborska, Leopold Staff, Halina Poświatowska, Bolesław Leśmian, as well as five William Shakespeare’s sonets. He’ll be backed by Soyka Quintet+, incorporated in 2004 and now featuring: Stanisław Soyka – piano, vocal, Aleksander Korecki – saxophones, flute, Przemek Greger – guitars, Marcin Lamch – double bass, Zbyszek “Uhuru” Brysiak – percussions, Kuba Sojka – drums, vocal, Antoni Sojka – sound and keyboard. Quintet+ plays a kind of chamber pop with influences of jazz and soul as well as traditional Polish music. The band has a rich palette of colours at its disposal, and the musicians’ competences and jazz temperaments can trigger this unique power of improvised music.

Stanisław Soyka is an artist with performer charisma. From the first sounds he attracts the audience’s attention with his masterly singing and guides it through the paths of his sensitivity. Come over and check it out yourself.

Stanislaw Soyka: To love and to loose
Stanislaw Soyka: Bootlegs Chronology
Stanislaw Soyka: Sheakspeare Sonnet 66

In cooperation with

Saturday, April 27, 21.00

Melusina – Luxembourg

« post-scriptum »
 Rock concert

Chemia (PL) vs. Porn Queen (LU)

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Chemia is a rock band whose music doesn’t allow anyone to be left indifferent or uninvolved. The group comprises of its current band members for merely a few months, however, they’ve already accomplished numerous big achievements. In 2012, they’ve played in total more than 50 concerts in Poland, Germany and Canada. They’ve played as a supporting band before world known rock bands such as: Guns’n’Roses, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Kasabian, H-Blockx, and Paul Rodgers. Their last gig took place in the legendary Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, where great rock bands including the Rolling Stones and Aerosmith took their first steps on the stage.

On their newest album, which is yet to be released this year, they worked with the best and recorded in the famous Bryan Adams Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, Canada. In an interesting way, Chemia mixes different music styles in its repertoire. In their newest compositions, the influence of rock, grunge, jungle, and even groovy disco can be heard. Currently, the band is in the middle of planning a large concert tour, on which their newest album will be featuring.

Porn Queen is a hard rock band full of energy and enthusiasm. It was created in 2007 by two residents of Luxembourg, Lucas Ferraz (vocals and guitar) and Fred Barreto (guitar) of Brazil. After Yves DeVille (drummer) and Daniel Fastro (bass) of Luxembourg joined the group, the ideal line-up was born. Their music is influenced by 1980's hard rock (Guns'n'Roses, Aerosmith, ....) with a touch of blues and rock’n'roll.

In 2010, the group was the opening act for legendary guitarist Slash (former guitarist of Guns'n'Roses) at Rockhal in Luxembourg. After the success of this concert, the group's reputation increased rapidly. Porn Queen performed at major rock festivals like Sonisphère, Rock A Field and NetRock, where they won the Jury prize in 2011. They were invited to open other concerts of Slash in Europe and Brazil and accompanied American guitarist Richie Kotzen (ex-member of Poison and Mr. Big) in his European tour. So far, the band has released an EP (4 songs) and their first studio album will be out at the beginning of 2013.

Chemia: Madley & Fire Mix