Sat, Sept 21, 2013, 1:30 pm
Madison World Music Festival
Wisconsin Union Theater
Madison, WI
www.uniontheater.wisc.edu
Sun, Sept 22, 2013
15th Annual World Music Festival Chicago, IL
www.worldmusicfestivalchicago.org
Wed, Sept 25, 2013
Landfall Festival of World Music
Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, IA
www.legionarts.org
Fri-Sat, Sept 27-28, 2013
20th Annual Lotus World Music & Arts Festival
Bloomington, IN
www.lotusfest.org
Sun, Sept 29, 2013, 3:00 pm
Music at Lily Pads, Peace Dale, RI
www.musicatlilypads.org
Fri, Oct 4, 2013, 7:15 pm
DROM, New York City
www.dromnyc.com
Sat, Oct 5, 2013, 7:00pm
Intimate House Concert in the hills of San Diego
for details email [email protected]
Sun, Oct 6, 2013, 7:00 pm
Yoshi’s San Francisco, CA
www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco
Mon, Oct 7, 2013
School of Music and Dance
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
www.music.sdsu.edu
www.centerforworldmusic.org
Wed, Oct 9, 2013
Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
www.swccd.edu
www.centerforworldmusic.org
Thu, Oct 10, 2013, 7:00pm
European Jazz @ UCLA
www.schoolofmusic.ucla.edu
Fri, Oct 11, 2013, 6:30 pm
Folk Dance Center, Dancing Unlimited
San Diego, CA
www.folkdancecenter.org
www.centerforworldmusic.org
Sat-Sun, Oct 12-13, 2013
Richmond Folk Festival, Richmond, VA
www.richmondfolkfestival.org
Wed, Oct 16, 2013
The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
Washington, DC
www.kennedy-center.org
The Janusz Prusinowski Trio is a group of musicians who follow in the traditions of village masters they have personally learned from, but they are also an avant-garde band with their own characteristic sound and language of improvisation. They combine music with dance, and the archaic with the modern. The Trio’s unique style is distilled from their informed reinterpretations of central Poland’s village music. They bring the mazurka – sung, played, danced, and improvised – to a new, youthful audience. Listening to the Trio you can hear how traditional music of Polish villages echoes or is echoed by a variety of genres: the music of Chopin in its melodic pattern and the use of rubato, a shared love of improvisation with blues and jazz, a tonal sophistication reminiscent of twentieth-century classical and free improvisation, and the energy and propulsion of rock music.
The band has performed in most European countries, Asia, Canada, and the USA (including Carnegie Hall and the Chicago Symphony Center). The Trio shared the stage with such renowned artists as Janusz Olejniczak, Tomasz Stanko, and Alim Qasimov. They have released two critically-acclaimed albums: Mazurkas (2008) and Heart (2010). In October of 2012, the Prusinowski Trio was officially selected to perform as part of main showcase of the prestigious world music fair WOMEX 2012 (World Music Expo) in Thessaloniki.The Prusinowski Trio will perform in following lineup: Janusz Prusinowski, fiddle, voice, dulcimer, Polish accordion; Piotr Piszczatowski, baraban drum, frame drum; Michal Zak, wooden flutes, shawm, clarinet; Piotr Zgorzelski, folk bass, dancing; Szczepan Pospieszalski, trumpet.
