During all history of country music, there are and were many famous singers and music bands.
Everybody knows some hitparade in every kind of music, as well in Country music. Every year there is official competition - Grammy Awards. It is rating of professionals in more categories.
Let's try to create some own TOP 5. Here are only four categories:
Singer - Man (Never mind if interpret is still alive or dead.)
Singer - Women (Never mind if interpret is still alive or dead.)
Music Band (Never mind if music band still exists or not.)
Song (during all rich country history)
Please write it to comments under this post. Everybody can nominate 5 nominees for each category.
The contest will be close after 2 month and results will be published asap.
In the end, there will be evaluation and one of the voting will have his link on this site for 4 months.
Last weekend in Slovakia was the 13th annual of Bazant Pohoda. Music program was rich. On Thursday started British electronic formation Basement Jaxx and next Royal Choral Society. During next days there was legendary american poet Patti Smith and famous Czech interpret Marta Kubisova.
People saw Lou Rhodes and Andy Barlow with their project Lamb, headliner music band Travis, Klaxons, The Ting Tings, Hadouken. Also English-Sweeden formation Razorlight.
Slovak scene was represented by Collegium Musicum with Marian Varga, Richard Muller, Andrej Seban and Hudba z Marsu, Noisecut, traditional bands Zive Kvety, Hex, Tomas Sloboda Sounds Like This, Slobodna Europa, Para and Karol Miklos.
As you can see, this fest is full of good music and this year was not exception.
But, ... Unfortunately this annual was different.
This annual has number 13th and somebody believes that this number is unlucky.
Bazant Pohoda is traditional organized on Trencin airport. By agency report, there were about 100 casualty people and 1 man died. Very strong wind detach O2 Arena. This accident was during concert of AMO and United Flavours. In that time there were more than one hundreds people.
What's happened?
Official news by TA3: Police Investigation Into Tragedy at Pohoda Underway
Bratislava, July 19 (TASR) - Police continue to investigate the tragic accident that occurred at the Pohoda music festival on Saturday afternoon and claimed the life of a 29-year-old man from Piestany (Trnava region), spokesman for Police Corps Presidium Martin Korch said on Sunday.
There have been no new findings concerning the accident at Slovakia's largest open-air music festival, he added.
A severe storm accompanied by gusts of wind hit the area at around 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, bringing down a large tent covering the O2 Arena. Crowds of people were underneath the canopy at the time.
According to an eye-witness, the O2 Arena acted as a kind of "flytrap", as "it was the only place at Pohoda where a gig was underway at the time of the accident, so thousands of festival-goers pushed their way in there."
He added that the organisers warned people that they should gather at the edges of the tent, so that they could leave quickly if advised to do so. "Unfortunately, the gusts of wind rushed in so quickly that they didn't manage to warn the people under the tent."
In addition to the death of the young man, three more young people sustained severe injuries and were operated on in hospitals in Trencin, Zilina and Martin (Zilina region). Another 18 people remain in the Trencin Hospital's trauma ward. A total of 40 people were admitted into nine hospitals. Another 52 festival-goers were given first aid.
The 13th annual Pohoda festival was called off after the accident, and the festival participants were evacuated.
"We took some 10,000 people from the airport to Trencin railway station, to the Druzba culture house and to Opatovce (Trencin region)," said spokesperson the Trencin branch of Slovak Bus Transport (SAD) Ivana Strelcova. All the public-transport buses from the town and neighbouring area were used to evacuate the festival-goers, she stressed.
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Bazant Pohoda Festival 2009 TV Spots
Pohoda 2009 Trencin last seconds before the accident
Pohoda 2009 O2 arena breakdown
Pohoda 2009 O2 arena breakdown
Pohoda 2009 Trencin (exkluzivni zabery cele tragedie)
Summer is here and many people only wait for a weekend, when they can go to dance or to listen music on some summer festivals.
From history of this the greatest festival in Slovakia:
Michal Kascak is musician and progenitor of this fest. He was a member of music band Bez ladu a skladu. During 90-teen he had established his own festival and kept his dream.
Everything began in 1997, when started the 1-st annual of Bažant Pohoda festival. It was only small fest, only about 2000 guests, one main stage and show of some Slovak and Czech music bands. Nothing special. Place of fest - town station.
Next year brought some changes, one of them was changing of place - to Areál Pod Sokolicami, the other was dance stage. The 2-nd annual and 3000 guests, 9 music bands.
The 3-rd annual and 8000 guest, 22 famous bands as Skulpey (USA), Werk (A), Másfél (H), Ole lukkoye (RUS), Auktyon (RUS), Jaroslav Filip (SK) Varga + Šeban+ Rózsa + Buntaj (SK) and others.
Year 2000 brought other changes. The4th annual had name Topvar Pohoda fest and it impel to change place. Again. There was main stage (alternative, rock, pop, world music, dance music), rock stage (rock, punk, alternative, pop) and two dance stages. Music bands : Bomfunk MCS (FIN), Vinx (USA), ISM (GB), Zóna A (SK), Homage and Jaro Filip (SK), Will White – Propellerheads (GB), Lol Hammond – Girl eats boy (GB), 808 state (GB) etc. Total 19 bands on main stage. Rock stage and 19 bands (Twinkles (ITA)). The first time there were escort actions: vernisage of photograhy from Pohoda 99, happenings, performance, graffiti; cinema in areal, tatoo, piercing, literatúre, CD shop, tea-room, internet cafe, adrenalin sports, competitions, exhibitions, bungee jumping, tandem jumps, hot-flue balon, motocars, bungee running, skate park, air castle. 20 000 guests per day. General partner was Topvar company (that' s why name Topvar Pohoda).
In 2001 festival grew up, they added other stage (there were now main stage, dance stage 1, dance stage 2, dance stage 3, rock/hip hop stage and rock open-air stage).
From 6-th annual to these days the name of festival is Bažant Pohoda, because general partner became Zlatý Bažant company (producer of bier). Stages: main stage: alternative, rock, pop, ska, dance music; Kofola stage: world music, rock, punk, alternatíve, pop, ska; Smint stage: techno; Durex stage: house, drum´n´bass, techhouse; Kenvelo stage: experiment, chill out, nu jazz, minimal, Blaupunkt stage: live acts, alternatíve, hip-hop, rock; Jah Jam stage: reggae, dance hall, dub, ska - 20000 guests per day.
The 7th was similar as 6th. But on 8th people met on new place - airport. From that time, festival is still on airport. More place, more guests, more fun, more music, more attractions.
Stages: Bažant stage: alternative, rock, pop, ska, dance music;
There were Chumbawamba (GB), Rescate (ARG), Tata bojs (CZ), Amparanoia (E/Cuba), Dan Bárta + Illustratosphere (CZ), I am X (GB), Asian Dub foundation sound system (GB), Zóna A (SK), Vypsaná fixa (CZ), Štefan Hríb, Juraj Kušnierik + Radovan Kazda, Marián Huba, Misha, Jana Belišová, Petr Fiala, Jozef Lupták, Ladislav Snopko, Vladimír Palko, Fedor Gál, Valerij Kupka, Marian Milčák, Primož Repar, Stanislava Chrobáková-Repar, Marek Vadas, Eman Erdélyi, Monika Kompaníková, Vlado Janček, Michal Hvorecký, Zuzana Šeršeňová, Tibor Holoda, Joachim Dvořák, Jaroslav Rudiš. You was able to listen music, to watch theatre, photography, bažant cinematograph. Escort actions: Liga za duševné zdravie: chalk-talks and discussion about brainwork. Easy park: adrenalín sports, competitions, exhibitions, atractions, paintball, volejball, football, spinball duo, cobweb, rent of sportng goods. Total in word - 127 music bands.
I don t want to repeat words about perfect atmosphere on next annuals. You can see photos and ask people, who were there. Always there was much fun, good music and each annuals had left a lot of unforgoten memorries in everybody, who was there.
Now, when price of oil is the highest in all history, someone can start to think that time, when people didn’t need it. It isn’t so long time. Something about 150 years ago.
Most time of man history, there were horses as main vehicle. And horses are connected with history of the Country.
If you open any book of history, you can find many links and pics, where is man and his horse. Each period didn’t get along without them: Assyria and its militant horse carriages, Egypt and its pharaoh carriages, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire, many wars in Europe, Asia and the other part of the world, colonization of Wild West, etc.
Horse in America
Horses came to America only after arrival’s Christopher Columbus.
I think of that. When people came to America, some thousands years ago, they went through the Bering Strait, I’m sure, they had many domestic animals, besides horses. Why these horses disappeared, that’s a question.
The odds are that Indians were very surprised to see Spanish conquistadors on horseback. From that time, America had horses again. Some horses run away and started to be wild.
And now we came to that time, when men had come to wild area of North America, cowboys drove cattle and rode on horse. During their journey met many batch of horses. Cowboys lassoed horses and tried to domestic them again. And rodeo was here.
Horses in music
Could you tell me someone song, where is horse? Yes, nothing hard. And no one. You know many songs, don’t you. (Oh! Susanna by Simon Carly, Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses by U2, Christmas For Cowboys by John Denver, Midnight In Montgomery by Alan Jackson, Orchidej by Rangers, Diego by Spirituál Kvintet, Red River Valley, Blízko Little Big Hornu by Greenhorns, Last Cowboy by span style="font-style: italic;">Michal Tučný, Honec krav, Divoké koně, Růže z Texasu, Píseň o koni, Supi by Waldemar Matuška, Pomalý koně by Martin Maxa, Bedna od whisky by Wanastowi Vjecy, Rychlejší koně by Wabi Daněk, Kovbojuv nářek by Spirituál Kvintet, Nad stádem koní by Buty, Divoké koně by Jaromír Nohavica, Čiže sú to koně ve dvoře - folklore, Holka od koní by Devítka, Národ koní by Druhá Tráva, Hřívy by Hop Trop, Pony Express by K.T.O., Zachraňte koně by Kamelot, Stádo by Alan Mikušek, Ho, Ho Watanay by Pavel Lohonka Žalman, Koně pláčou by Bagr, Cherokee Bill by Nedvědi, Rio Grande by Kabát and many, many others.
Horses go with us through history so long time and it’s incredible they are still our friends, after all things what we did them.
Horses are very clever animals and very nice. That’s why they come a part of many tales, stories and legends each culture in the world. Troy, its destroy and the wood horse. They were so important, that people put it also to the sky.
Someone said: “The most beautiful view on the world is from horseback.” And be sure it’s right.
What can I tell you about that action? Every year some artists create special sculptures - cows.
Idea of CowParade came by Walter Knapp in 1996. His son Pascal Knapp was the creator of the three cow sculptures in CowParade which had been used in Chicago and New York at the end of the last century. After a lot of modifications, Pascal finished sculpture.
Cows are very authentic, life-size, from fiberglass.
CowParade is the world’s largest public art event.
It isn’t only art, it’s fun and also charity. To paint own cow - it comes to be in, a very prestige (or show how you are rich :o) A specially in Slovakia.)
When cows were in Bratislava, many people walk through the city and tried to find most of them. Some radios made competitions - to find special cow for each day. We walked too and made pictures some of them. You can see them here.
Which cities were this famous presentation - CowParade?
