A young, dynamic band, playing old, dynamic melodies. They met in the Bieszczady town of Chmiel. Now in Warsaw, they’re winning Rzeszow dance notes. From lively leg polkas, to jittery trampels, to romantic stilettos.
Everything under the leg, to these tunes there is no point in propping up the walls!
Composition:
Marcin Chrzanowski – violin, vocals
Adrian Laskowski – dulcimer
I was born in Budapest in 1973, in a family of musicians. I have been playing the violin since I was six years old. In 1991 I graduated from the Győr Conservatory of Music in violin and in 1998 from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in bass viola (name of folk instrument “brácsa”). My…
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