In Baligród the square is sprinkled with thyme Baligród maidens smell of rosemary ﹍ⲯ﹍ⲯ﹍︿﹍☼ At the end of Carnival, on Valentine’s Day itself, the Embassy of Traditional Music will fill the spirit of Poland’s south: there will be furious polkas, kołomyjkas and oberks, and also calmer tramles, sztajerks and slow pieces. There will be Boyko, Jewish and Roma–Carpathian threads. We guarantee it will be intense, there will be laughter and there will be tears. The dance party will be preceded by traditional love-song workshops led by Kacper Siejkowski and Zosia Zaborowska. website: https://tiny.pl/b5dwgzwgj FB: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61580943353391 IG: https://www.instagram.com/samopoludnie/ Samo Południe This is the land of Krosno and Sanok — the Pogórze, Beskid Niski and Bieszczady. Once this was a highly multicultural region, characteristic of the Carpathian arc. Polish, Rusyn, Lemko, Jewish, Roma and German‑speaking deaf communities coexisted here. From this diversity grew a rich and colourful musical tradition that we now try to revive. Our band is rooted in these traditions not only because we consider them very beautiful. Some of us come from these areas, so the music we play is in a sense a return to family roots. In our practice we try to faithfully reproduce the old village style of playing, drawing both on our own ethnomusicological research and on archival recordings from documentation campaigns conducted in the 1950s–1980s. Jan Ozimkowicz and the Band — focus on music, singing and dance from the Przemyśl and Dynów Foothills, drawing repertoire from village musicians; they also complement it with old Ukrainian dances and songs and melodies from eastern Poland and western Ukraine. 📅 14/02/2026 — SATURDAY time: 🕺 Admission: We play until the last dancer. 📍 House no. 3/20 at Jazdów Street — used for cultural and social purposes by the “Dom Tańca” Association with the help of the City of Warsaw — Śródmieście District. The Embassy of Traditional Music is sustained only by donors' contributions and volunteers' work. Help the Embassy operate — support it yourself.
