This year is the 14th time that Polish Radio is organizing a folk festival “Nowa Tradycja” (“New Tradition”). I was invited to attend an opening concert and had a chance to do some event photography. Janusz Prusinowski Trio – a folk band that I had a chance to photograph during their concert in Madison last year – won the first prize for Folkowy Fonogram Roku 2010 (the best Folk Phonogram of the Year 2010) and I welcomed the opportunity to experience their music again. Janusz Prusinowski Trio inspired by Polish folk music shares traditional but almost forgotten country compositions (mazurkas, polkas, oberkas) with contemporary listeners. And they do it in such a passionate and masterful way that captures your heart.

The Trio shared the stage with several other traditional folk groups from Poland and Ukraine. It was a very special evening and even more so that it became clear to me that there are still artists who do their best to preserve the music of our roots.

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